Artisanat et scènes de la rue en Chine [Crafts and Street Scenes in China] (1908) – Anon

A lantern-maker – ‘Artisanat et scènes de la rue en Chine’ (1908)

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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