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Description: Time Travel back to Lhasa in Tibet in 1942, with state-of-the-art AI. “Why is it that the fate of Tibet has found such a deep echo in the world? There can only be one answer: Tibet has become the symbol of all that present day humanity is longing for, either because it has been lost or not yet been realized or because it is in danger of disappearing from human sight." Lama Govinda. This AI restored segment features residents of Lhasa, clips of the Potala palace, home of the Dalai Lama, various pilgrims, monks and scenes of Tibetan Buddhism. Also some footage from the lamasery in Gyantse. About the Film "Inside Tibet" At the height of WW2 and desperate to secure a land route that would reconnect China and India ( severed by the invading Japanese forces), two men were dispatched by President Roosevelt to traverse the hidden kingdom of Tibet. They were Ilia Tolstoy, the grandson of Leo Tolstoy, and explorer . The traverse of Tibet required the permission of a seven year old Dalai Lama. They came bearing gifts and a letter from FDR. They are considered to have gone beyond their authority in leading the Tibetan government to believe the United States had given international political recognition to Tibet. Brooke Dolan filmed the entire journey, and the original reels are now housed in the motion picture holdings of the National Archives. The film now in the public domain is also published online at the Internet Archive. Dolan sadly became a war casualty, dying in China just three years later in 1945. While we mostly see members of the elite society of old Tibet in this film, the reality for many Tibetans was a life of poverty under a ruling theocracy. Whether this was a feudal system or a serfdom is hotly debated to this day. But the nobility who fled following the Communist incursion represented about 5% of the population, who had previously owned about 95% of the arable land. Most Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama agree that the system was far from perfect, but argue conditions were never as bad as the Communists depicted. The debate is now highly politicized with both China and the West, in particular the USA, tending to air brush the past with vastly different narratives. The film however does give us a glimpse of the country shortly before the seismic changes which overtook its amazing people. In popular western culture, many people relate Tibet to the mythical land of Shangri-la, from the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon. You can watch the full original film - Inside Tibet, now in the public domain. National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 40103 / Local Identifier 226.5 - Inside Tibet. Office of Strategic Services,United States Government. Original source Archive.org archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.40103 Sound effects: Tibetan percussion by Kevin Luce at freesound.org Music: Tibetan Summer Ambient by FxProSound ( licensed by Pond5) Music intro: Contemplate the Winter Day - Erick McNerney ( licensed by Pond5)