Harem Cosplay Party, 1927
If you do not already love the Internet Archive, you will start loving it very soon. What follows in three parts is a total of about 10 minutes of film from 1927 of a private harem cosplay party. It’s not explicitly sexual, although there is kissing. Nor are the harem outfits particularly revealing. But it doesn’t matter. If you ever entertained a harem fantasy, you’ll find much to enjoy in this film. The film, titled Why Girls Leave Home, was made by a wealthy and prominent Canadian timber tycoon with his wife and six other women starring as harem girls. Was this man a smooth-talking bastard, or just insanely rich? I guess “both” is also an option:
Synthesizing the captions at the Internet Archive with a bit of Google research, this film documents a private costume party at the Hamber mansion (called Greencroft) in 1927 Vancouver. It shows footage of Eric Hamber, his wife Aldyen, and 6 female guests as they dance, smoke, laugh, chat, and act out a harem love scene. Eric Hamber was first a wealthy banker who then got really rich developing his father-in-law’s timber interests. Later, he was the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia and the chancellor of the University of British Columbia. His Greencroft mansion, featured in the film, sold for thirty five million dollars in 2013, making it Vancouver’s most expensive house.
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I can’t believe it but the Archive removed those films.
But they are still available here https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/informationobject/browse?topLod=0&sort=relevance&query=greencroft+harem+
That is remarkable, I’ve never known them to do that before. Thank you for a working link!
Thanks to you for keeping the site up all these years. It’s one of the few I like to visit on a regular basis. (gosh I miss drmenlo)
I hope they are still a bit true to their archivist heart and have the files stored for posterity.
I, too, miss Dr. Menlo!
Normally I rely on the Archive to keep this sort of thing safe, but since they’ve failed me, I’ll find another way. Somehow we’ll yeet these movies into the deep future!