Old Footage of Cambodia’s Angkor from the 1930’s

Here is an amazing find. Archives of some of the earliest and only pieces of footage taken from Cambodia. A tour of the ancient Cambodian temples of Angkor Wat and Cambodia from as early as the 1930’s. If you’ve been to Cambodia, it’s hard to imagine what this country would look like nearly a hundred years ago but the reality is that, besides the cities of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, not much has changed. The 1930’s narrator begins with - “Only since 1907, have we known much that was worth knowing about wondrous Angkor. In that year Siam ceded Cambodia in southeastern Asia to the french, who soon began to dig out from the depths of its impenetrable jungle, the vast bones of a forgotten city. They found enthroned here, rising in a steady masterful sweep, the five lofty towers of Angkor Wat. A midst such terrifying desolation and amazing mystery as no mortal had beheld for hundreds of years.“