Visa to Canton - Richard Basehart (1960) - Connaught Road Central

The next few posts show the same stretch of Connaught Road Central but all viewed from various angles. I've broken them down into three separate posts, one for each angle. The camera location is essentially on the waterside pavement, close to Central Vehicular Ferry Pier (as you'll see in the next post) and in terms of today's location, my best guess would be somewhere around here (it's a GoogleEarth Chrome link).

This first angle shows the view looking west along Connaught Road with the Macau<>HK Ferry pier coming into view as the camera pans to the right. Note the ship at berth, it's the Tai Loy (before it was renamed Chung Shan). Gwulo.com has some amazing images of this ferry being constructed here.

Emmanuelle 2 - Sylvia Kristel (1975) - Chung Shan Ferry

In the second installment (Emmanuelle 2 a.k.a Emmanuelle: L'antivierge) of Sylvia Kristel's outing as the titular character, we see her arrive at our fair shores on a boat called the 'Chung Shan' (松山 in Chinese).

It appears this was the real name of a boat that shuttled around the local waters. Originally built in 1950 and called the 'Tai Loy', it was renamed in 1968 to the 'Chung Shan' and later still to the romantic name of 'Hong Xing 801' on being sold to the Chinese Govt in 1978.

According to some blurb I found online, the HK Maritime Museum has a model of this vessel somewhere, so I may pop down one day and hunt it down. In the meantime, you can make do with some reasonable views of her from the film.

On deck

Chung Shan (read R>L)