Monday, July 17, 2023

We Owe It to Our Children - Cheung Wood-yau (1955) - Telephone House, Cameron Road

I referred to another building in my last post and although the official address of the Telephone Building was Nathan Road, the entrance we see below is on Cameron Road. This is the office where Cheung Wood-yau supposedly works and there is an establishing sequence that pans up the front of the building from street level before we see him sitting inside his (studio set) office. The building had a distinctive art deco rooftop clocktower. It was demolished sometime in the 1970s to make way for the faux temple style HSBC building that now stands on the plot. The screen shots are in reverse order (because the sequence starts at ground level and pans up) but the Autostitch panorama below it probably does a better job. At the time of filming I believe the building contained a UK department store called "Whiteaways" but I'm not sure how many floors it occupied.



Panoramic image below courtesy of Autostitch

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