Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - View over North Point

Another wide angle view across the harbour, this time from the North Point area looking beyond towards Hung Hom and the old Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock area that later became the Whampoa residential estate. The focus in the film is the ship that is slowly making its way into harbour because it is supposedly carrying several tons of illegal gold being smuggled by the gang.

It seems that the film used different ships at different points of the film - understandable given the to'ings and fro'ings of the harbour. I believe the ship below is the RIL "Straat Fremantle", which was a passenger carrying freighter that operated Japan and South Africa with a stop in Hong Kong on the return leg (most likely it was travelling from Japan which is why it entered the harbour from the east in this scene).

Powaqqatsi - Godfrey Reggio (1988) - Former Whampoa Dock, Hung Hom

The tail end of the 1980s was when Hutchison Whampoa was putting some of the finishing touches to the Whampoa Garden development that occupied the site of their former dockyard. The reason there is a mall in the shape of a large boat in the area is as a sort of homage to the area's former identity. Although most of the estate had been constructed, Hutchison Whampoa still had a working dockyard at the very end of the peninsula and that is what you can see captured in the image below.

The old dock office building on the right was demolished some time later to make way for redevelopment and the space was later turned into One Harbourfront and the Harbour Grand Hotel. The waterfront where the boat is docked is actually now the Whampoa promenade in front of those two buildings.