- Title: PA-10
- Summary: Bok Kai Festival: Bok Kai Festival Marysville, California Crowds, games, parade and fireworks, Chinatown, Chinese-Americans
- Description:01:48:10 - STEADY STREAM CHINESE MEN ENTERING BUILDING IN CHINATOWN CARRYING PACKAGES. Men carrying whole roasted pigs into the Bok Kai Temple as an offering to the Gods. Smoke from fireworks going off in frgd. 01:48:56 - People standing on a balcony which appears to be the "C" Street side of the Suey Sing Society Buliding. They are holding strings with green cabbage and money attatched for the Lion Dancers. 01:49:09 - Lion Dancers going after the green cabbage and money hanging on the string. 01:49:22 - CU STICKS POUNDING DRUM. 01:49:36 - Ceremonial "Firing of the Rings" (AKA:Bomb Day) Held at the intersection of 1st. & "C" Streets. Firings of bombs as CROWD GATHERS IN CIRCLE AROUND MEN LIGHTING FIREWORKS ON TOP OF TWO LOG STUMPS. STREET LITTERED WITH SPENT FIRECRACKERS. KIDS RUN TO CATCH TRINKETS PROPELLED IN AIR BY FIRECRACKERS. 01:50:09 - Lion Dance being performed in front of the Bok Kai Temple. Tablet representing Bok Kai that watched over the "Firing of the Rings" is being carried back into the temple. 01:50:24 - Lion Dancing and man lighting packs of firecrackers in front of the Bok Kai Temple. 01:50:38 - Performing a Lion Dance on platform 01:51:24 - People gathered in front of the Suey Sing Building (1st. Street) watching the Lion Dance. 01:51:48 - Close-up of Lion "eating" the green cabbage and money dangled from a string. 01:52:10 - People gathered in front of the Suey Sing Building (1st. Street) to watch performance 01:52:20 - CU Lion 01:52:28 - (Suey Sing Society?) banner 01:52:35 - Lion Dance Performed at the intersection of 1st. & "C" Streets 01:53:44 - Close-up of the "Firing of the Rings" followed by a scramble for the ring. 01:53:54 - Various Views of the "Lion Dance"
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1925
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: PA-10