A series of videos posted to YouTube earlier this year offers a perspective of Bali that most of us today weren’t around to witness.
Purportedly shot in 1935 (impressively in color!), Legong (Dance of the Virgins) has a little bit of everything in HD transfer: music, dance, romance, cockfighting.
The film is broken into four parts by a YouTuber who posted the videos, Perry Setiayawan.
Legong’s foreword is just about guaranteed to make you nostalgic for a Bali that you never knew and never will get to experience firsthand:
Out in the Dutch East Indies, just south of the equator, lies Bali – isle of perpetual summer.
In this peopled paradise, untouched by civilization lives a contented race who joyously worship their gods — to them life is a continuous feast — to them death holds no fear.
Here we relate a romance of Balinese life, based on facts and authentic customs — enacted with an all native cast, and produced in its entirety upon the isle of Bali.
You can watch part 2 here:
And part 3:
And finally part 4 (though quality is significantly down from the first three parts):
