Thailand Rain Season

Bangkok city in the rainy season; streets flooded with water, fountains of water from passing cars. Soviet ore carrier ship in the port; bank building; shopping stalls on the street. Sea, rocks, bay, Phang-Nga cave, palm trees. Thais are engaged in agricultural work, catching, butchering fish, painting umbrellas. Rice field view. Floating market: sellers with goods in boats, buyers move around the market in boats. Elephants drag teak logs to the water for rafting. Feeding the elephants. A man collects coconuts, knocked from a tree by a trained monkey. Buildings, interiors of Buddhist temples, Buddha sculptures. Buddhist monks in monasteries during prayers, rest, meals. A village inhabited by the pagans of the Meo hill tribe. The villagers are near their homes. View of the power plant and dam. Tin mining in a quarry: erosion of rocks by a jet of water. Quarrying, transporting fluorite-containing rocks by machines. Moments of the fight of Thai boxers. Fight of roosters. Dances of Thai girls. The king of Thailand with the queen and retinue while visiting a Buddhist temple. Demonstration of students of Tammasat University on the day of commemoration of students who died on October 14, 1973.

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1976