A. Horm and Camera Around the World 1965 (1965)

Landing in Bangkok (also Krung Thep) after a long flight. Various temples and pagodas of the Great Palace building complex. The statue of the Golden Buddha in the Buddhist Wat Traimit temple. Fruit stands in the streets. Visiting the famous boat markets in Thailand. Tourists are taken along the river by boats, houses standing on tall wooden pegs on the coast. Thai women carrying goods with small boats that they row with one oar. Market spots, built on wooden boards, are everywhere by the river. There are numerous boats around, in one of them people are cooking food on an oil stove and selling it. Giant statues in Wat Phra Kaew temple. Views of temples and pagodas, embellishments. The road passes a cemetery. 11th APACL Conference takes place in Hotel Manila. National representatives listening to speeches. Military ceremony by the monument. At the buffet. Delegations of participating countries in the great hall. Soldiers marching. Driving on local roads, tropical nature, fields and plantations, people selling fruit by the road. Flight to USA, view from the porthole. Birger Nerman, the chairman of the Baltic Committee in Sweden travels together with Arvo Holm. View of Chicago at daytime and advertising lights in the evening. Building with the name plate of Conrad Hilton. Horm and Nerman at the Polish National Alliance and the newspaper office. Coats of arms of Swedish counties on the walls of the club. Inner views of Chicago Grand Ballroom. Ice show. Crowd observing a procession in the city centre. Highway to the airport, flight to Minneapolis by the River Mississipi. In the public library. In Toronto: construction of the new city hall, the old town hall, Estonian House, on the observation platform with local Estonians. Lake Ontario, Museum of York University. Flight to New York. Driving between the Manhattan skyscrapers, office building 666, horse carriages, Macy's department store. Pagsanjan Falls, the main tourist attraction of the Filippines. Boatmen take tourists to see the waterfall by canoes. People push boats with their hands through rapids, tropical rain forest on the riverfronts. The river is fast-flowing near the first small rapids, boatmen struggle in waist-deep water. Canoes are pushed up along the rapids and terraces. Natural pool in front of a great waterfall where tourists are swimming and taking photos. Arvo Horm in Australia, visiting entrepreneurs whom he knows. They continue the journey by car – the Sydney Opera House under construction can be seen, crossing the harbour bridge. Visiting local Estonians. Driving to Thirlmere, stopping on the ocean shore. Estonian village on Estonian Road, Thirlmere, with its small houses, church and store "Kungla". Views of Melbourne. Touring around New Zealand. Auckland: the harbour dock, botanical gardens with its beautiful blossoms, view to the volcano of the Island Rangitot, war museum, visiting local Estonians. Hawaii: views of Honolulu, beach pleasures, hawaiian canoe on the beach, local flora, indigenous Polynesian people performing in the open air museum, parks, plantations, burning of sugarcane, harvesting pineapples, views of landscape. In Rainbow island: local people are grilling a big animal – its abdominal cavity is filled with hot stones, covered with palm leaves, mats and soil. Feast. Surfers on the waves on Sunset beach. In Honolulu airport, on board. California. Disneyland in Anaheim: roller ship "Mark Twain", the castle of Sleeping Beauty, different attractions. Highway, barbecue with friends, swimming in the pool. Visiting Universal City: advertising posters of films, view to the city from the mountain, walk in the theme park of Hollywood Studios. Flight to the East Coast. Visit to the apple farm of the Poom family. Men walking between apple trees.
Most of the apples have been collected, crates with apples are being transported to different destinations. Apple picker on the ladder. Tractor with apple crates. Preparations for the Pope Paulus VI's visit in the New York City. Lots of policemen patrolling in the streets. A police car driving in front of a cortege, followed by motorbikes and a limousine with the Pope, secured from both sides, and more vehicles. The New York World's Fair 1964/1965 takes place in the Flushing Meadows Park, New York City.
People crowding between pavilions. Back in Europe.