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000780

Ephemeral film · 41 min

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Running time
41 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · I loved Instanbul. but not Constantinople. · Spuzz · 2023-10-14

This home movie is all about a... man and a woman? We only see the woman, but someone is shooting the film so.. Anyways, they're in Turkey! The first half of this is pretty much all Instanbul, hitting touristy sites, starting with the Harbiye Cemil Topuzlu Open Air Theater, the Istanbul Sports and Exhibition Centre, The Ancient Hippodrome, and other sites. Lots of cool stuff here actually. Lots of market stuff on the streets. Men with heavy carts of fruit pushing it uphill. wow! 2nd part is more rural, as they go into a smaller town in Turkey, unknown where, but you definitely feel more of a…