9:08 mins., b&w, silent.
Production : Pathé and the Medizinisch-Kinematographischen Universitäts-Institut.
Source : Gaumont-Pathé Archives
This is a short film of a high technical standard that offers a series of portraits – remarkably intimate for the period – of artisans (embroiderers, barbers, lantern-makers) and also of beggars in the street, before concluding with a sequence of open-air stalls selling bowls of steaming food.
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