Foto: Scene from Sunrise

Title of my film on life in the Yaumati typhoon shelter (1953)

Scene in Yaumati Typhoon shelter

Clip: End of film 'Turn of the Tide'

Scenes uit Turn of the tide

Gospelboat Chinese New Year De hoofdpersonen Wing Gay collapses

Foto: First prize for 'Turn of the Tide'

Foto: Wedding of Cor and Peggy Steenken in Union Church, HK, August '54

South China Morning Post, 8 October 1954

Video clip: Jaycees arrange party for poor children in Hong Kong

Farewell dinner of bank staff for Rogge on his departure in 1955

Bangkok

Bangkok

Pak Subuh in front of his house in Djakarta

Pak Ahmad, manager of People's Credit Bank, Cakarta

Pak Subuh with family in Puncak mountains

Open air laundry at Molenvliet canal in Cakarta

Bali beach. The island of Lombok in the distance.

Practice of court dance at Bali.

Cairo

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Street life in Caïro

Temple at Baalbek, Lebanon

Palace guard, Athene

The Acropolis, Athens

Change of the palace guards in Athens

Reguliersbreestraat, Amsterdam

Broodje van Kootje, Rembrandtplein

Traveling by Citroën Traction with mother and brother through Europe.

Austria on our way to Italy

Florence

Tower of Pisa

The Forum Romanum in Rome

Sculptures in Rome

Neptune

Transport of car across the Channel

My brother paints Scottish landscape

The harbour of Oban in the far North of Scotland

Trafalgar square, Londen

Petrouchka at the Royal Festival Hall

Montmartre, Paris

Departure for Japan at Schiphol

• Previously: Hong Kong 1951-53
• Sequel: Japan 1955

Links:

• HK Films of the fifties on DVD
• 3 Miljoen Zielen van Hong kong televisie film (Dutch commenatry)
• Old Hong Kong in the 1950s
• Modern HongKong by slideshow
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• 'Hong Kong Start nu' link page
• 'HK Startkabel.nl' links page

Recommended reading:

Of my films taken in Hong Kong a few DVD's are available ! Click here for a list.

On the web since 13 December 2006. Revised 17 March 2010.

© Michael Rogge 2009

Recapitulation of previous pages with photos and clips

• Growing up in Amsterdam 1929 - 36
• Growing up in Amsterdam 1937 - 49
• Hong Kong 1949 - 51
• Hong Kong 1951 - 53
• Hong Kong 1953 - 55
• Japan 1955-57
• Japan 1957-59
• Japan 1959 - 60
• Return to Holland 1961
• My 60 Hong Kong/Macau video clips 1949/61 on YouTube

The above photos also appear in my autobiography in Dutch:

• Hong Kong. De jaren 1952 - 53
• Hong Kong 1954
• Hong Kong 1955
• Verlof in Europe 1955
• A collection of my photo's of Hong Kong kong in the fifties will be shown from 17th March 2010 in the Tao Evolution Gallery, 13 Circular Pathway, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong