Lost Ceylon Diaries on Instagram: "This remarkable street scene was filmed in the 1940s in Kandy by Ettore “Ito” Porreca, an American combat cameraman who served with the United States Army during World War II and documented life in Ceylon (today’s Sri Lanka) during his wartime service and stay on the island. Porreca’s film journal offers rare moving footage of everyday people and culture during an era rarely captured on camera outside official records. In this frame, we see a soft drink vendor