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Record information – Brief China the Ancient
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1921Item number (ISN):202749Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.Accession:1972-0105Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1921Production company:Pathescope of CanadaProduction credit:photography, Richard "Dick" BirdDescription:A look at China "the ancient". Footage includes: a very busy Chinese city gate with vendors on foot, citizens, rickshaws, peking carts, ox and donkey drawn wagons, men pushing wheelbarrows, and donkeys drawing wheelbarrows; a Chinese Mandarin caravan escorted by body guards; five men pulling a plough with another guiding it from the rear; two women cranking a wheel at a well and drawing water into buckets; blindfolded donkeys operating a grindstone which grinds grain; a Chinese man in front of a house handmixing the contents of a bowl; a Chinese woman winnowing grain in a field; a beggar killing fleas between his fingernails; a young Chinese girl, in traditional costume, bowing in front of the camera; and a little Chinese boy, dressed in winter clothing, begging from the cameraman. <10mn>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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