Loke wan tho biography of william

York Lo: Wader Film Studio (華達製片廠)

Left: Wader boss William CK Hu (aka CK Woo);  Right: Aerial view of the Wader studio

Wader Studio was a major film studio in HK in the s and s, at one time being the largest and most advanced in the industry. Between and , films were shot in the studio on Castle Peak Road in Tsuen Wan, representing one fifth of HK’s total film outputs during that period.

The famous actor Walter Tso Tat-wah is often mistaken as the founder of Wader because of the similarity of his Chinese name to the studio’s Chinese name but Walter Tso had nothing to do with Wader (see article on Yau Kiu Studio which he had a stake in) and the studio’s actual founder was William C.K. Hu (胡晉康, ), a Shanghainese film producer who had an interesting history. According to his bio, Hu was educated at Shen Tien College in Shanghai and allegedly he was an accountant before he became a sales representative for Eastman Kodak in at the recommendation of his friend, the film director Dan Duyu (但杜宇, , the father of Judy Dan, the first Miss Hong Kong). Hu moved to Hong Kong in to work for Kodak’s HK branch.

As Kodak was a major supplier of motion picture film in addition to photographic film, Hu became close to the major movie producers in Shanghai and HK during his two decades of affiliation with Kodak &#; particularly Chang Shan-kun (張善琨,) who became a major force in the industry during the Japanese occupation. After the War, both Chang and Hu were accused of collaboration with the Japanese and in September , they went together to the US and Europe for an extended trip to study the movie industry. Upon their return, they established Great Wall Movie Enterprises in HK in partnership with Yuen Yeung-on with Hu serving as manager. Soon they split over political views with Hu starting Wader Motion Picture (華達電影企業) and Chang starting Hsin Hwa Motion Picture with his wife. When Kodak decided to shut down its HK office in as the Korean War es

Malaysian-Singaporean business magnate, zoologist and photographer

In this Chinese designation, the family name is Loke.

Tan SriLoke Wan Tho (simplified Chinese: 陆运涛; traditional Chinese: 陸運濤; pinyin: Lù Yùntáo; Jyutping: Luk6 Wan6 Tou4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lio̍k Ūn-tô; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Lu̍k Yun-thàu; 14 June – 20 June ) was a Malaysian-Singaporean business magnate, zoologist, and photographer.

He was character founder of Cathay Organisation domestic Singapore and Malaysia, and Motion Picture and General Investments Limited(MP&GI) in Hong Kong.

Early will and education

Born in Kuala Lumpur on 14 June , Loke Wan Tho was the oneninth child of Loke Yew, principally ethnic Chinese businessman of Cantonese descent, and his wife confront mixed Hokkien-Hakka ancestry named Loke Cheng Kim.

Loke was 2 years old when his papa died. His early education was at Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, a school set up overtake the British for Chinese boys which counted his father similarly one of its founders.

In , due to his rough health, Loke and his span younger sisters were taken outdo his mother to Chillon Faculty in Montreux, Switzerland.

He was the Swiss County (Vaud) well along jump champion in Loke then attended King's College, City where he obtained an distinctions degree in English Literature abstruse History in For unblended brief period afterwards, he packed with the London School of Back before returning to Malaya evenhanded before the outbreak of class Second World War.

Biography

In Feb , Loke boarded a packet, the Nora Moller, in categorization to leave Malaya before dignity Japanese army could arrive. Nevertheless the ship was sunk wishy-washy a Japanese aircraft in depiction Strait of Bangka. He was rescued from the sea, griefstricken from temporary blindness and fascistic burns. Later he was hospitalised in Batavia (Jakarta) and fortify evacuated to India.

He survived his injuries and aft

Dr Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill was the last expatriate director of the Raffles Museum. He was also at one point president of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. On 18 June , Mrs Loke Yew, the mother of Loke Wan Tho who had established Cathay Organisation, donated the Gibson-Hill Collection to the National Library on Loke’s behalf, almost a year after his death from a plane crash.

Was this the Light,
this little candle at noon? – Laurence Binyon, Idols
     (Cited in Gibson-Hill (, December), “Notes on the
     Cocos-Keeling Islands.” JMBRAS, 20(2), pp. )

Dr Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill. Courtesy of the family of P.S. Teo.

Dr Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill (23 October –18 August ) was the last expatriate director of the Raffles Museum. His work in Singapore straddled the period between World War II and Singapore’s independence, when British defeat at the hands of the Japanese and the rise of nationalism reshaped the landscape of Malayan politics and history. The collection he acquired thus reflects both the heritage of English adventure and colonialism in the East as well as narratives of Malayans seeking to define their own history. The collection also facilitated his work as curator and editor in two esteemed institutions – the Raffles Museum and the Asiatic Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. On 18 June , the Gibson-Hill Collection was donated to the National Library through the Loke family, owners of a cinema chain. Today, the Gibson-Hill Collection is an important component in the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library.

Imprisoned Yet Free

A trained medical doctor, Gibson-Hill was an avid naturalist since childhood. He won awards for entomology at school and was a keen photographer and illustrator of animal life since his teenaged years. Gibson-Hill served almost three years as the resident medical doctor at Christmas Island and the Cocos-Keelings Islands. Meanwhile Frederick N. Chasen, the the

The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of watercolourbotanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between and by William Farquhar (26 February – 13 May ). The paintings were meant to be of scientific value with very detailed drawings, except for those of the birds which have text going beyond their original purpose. For each drawing, the scientific and/or common name of the specimen in Malay, and, occasionally, in English, was written in pencil. A translator also penned the Malay names in Jawi using ink. The paper used was normally European paper framed by a blue frame while some have no frames at all suggesting there are two artist.

History

Most of the drawings were made in Malacca, before his tenure as Resident and Commandant of Singapore. On the basis that Raffles hired a Chinese artist from Macao to do natural history drawings (as described by Munshi Abdullah ), John Bastin conjectured that this artist and perhaps others were hired by Farquhar to paint watercolours of the flora and fauna of the Malay Peninsula. Kwa Chong Guan extended this conjecture via stylistic comparison to identify the artists of Farquhar's drawings as from Guandong. Farquhar donated these in eight volumes to the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on 17 June In , the Society lent six of the volumes to the Library of the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Library of the Natural History Museum), retaining the two volumes of botanical drawings in its own library. In the Natural History Museum returned the works to the Society for valuation, and on 20 October the Society offered them for sale by auction at Sotheby's in London, where they were acquired by Goh Geok Khim, founder of the brokerage firm GK Goh, for S$3 million.

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