Women Of Hanoi (1930)

"In far off French Indo-China, where streets are dusty and the ladies dusky."
L/S of Hanoi street scene featuring rickshaws and trams. A child looks at the camera sheltering his eyes. Various other street scenes as people go about their business. People stand beside a shop which seems to be selling paintings. C/U of the paintings, children stand beside and look at the camera. "Where eats are eats - but peculiar." M/S of two Vietnamese men in coolie hats cooking food at an outdoor stall. C/U of a man eating noodles from a little bowl with chopsticks. L/S of a woman carrying two large baskets of food on either end of a pole. Children stand in the foreground. L/S of someone carrying a very large bundle on their shoulders. Panning shot of some homesteads.
"Hanoi is a centre for an ages-old industry of paper-making - using special kinds of barks, pounded primitively into pulp." Various shots of the primitive machinery used to pulp the bark. Two men operate a large hammer device by jumping up and down on it. C/U of young boy working on the pulping. M/S of the two men putting their weight on the lever. C/U of the feet of one of the men. M/S of man loading bark into the machine. C/U of the bark being loaded in. "In the streets the public writer paints impartially any compliments (or complaints) to your lady love, you wish." M/S of men crouching on the ground painting on parchment. C/U of face of elderly Vietnamese man. "So they go on in Hanoi - the same yesterday as today - almost." High angle shot of a barge with woman walking to and fro presumably moving the cargo in their baskets. C/U of woman in a coolie style hat.
Was an item in Eve's Film Review issue number 487.
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[@jefferynewton9578]

Wonderful. Thank-you for sharing..

[@Nutty_Ba11s]

This is a masterpiece

[@tommythuyen4063]

1:00 this is "Phở" nowaday...❤😊

[@quang2842]

Ai cho mình hỏi chùa ở khúc 1p25 là chùa gì vậy?

[@LSmango]

Which building is this at 1:22 ?

[@odisseo183]

Can't stop thinking about all that kids in the footage will face an horrible war becaming probably soldier just after 25 years....😢

[@Bontang-zz6cv]

❤

[@ribos2762]

thời này HN nhìn còn giàu hơn cả Sài Gòn

[@malcomshaw5962]

💜🌟🌟🌟🌟🎬

[@michaeltran8079]

Those peculiar eats are pho, probably the best noodle soup in the world. Wonder why British foods are so bad.

[@thanhdinh3179]

Yea I saw that and was like “is that pho?” Didn’t know it existed that long ago.

[@tictactoe101]

There is no hope for fried mars bars cuisine

[@bag3lmonst3r72]

Pho is overrated af. Give me bun rieu or bun bo hue anytime

[@votrung227]

Because you have no taste , stpid h0e 😏🖕🏻

[@jeffscheiner1553]

The ladies dusky? Go Ho!

[@nguyenhieu6731]

Im from Vietnam

[@Sovietunion7313]

1975 vietnam

[@vuhoangtrung1986]

1930. fool

[@richards9494]

At that time VN still used Chinese words

[@shinshopwt]

that's not Chinese words, it's still Vietnamese like we use now. It's chữ Nôm(Vietnamese language) but from 1945 we start use Latin Vietnamese until today

[@mitismee]

It is a service if you want some word of wisdom or blessing you can ask them to write we still doing it nowadays in new year .

[@cudanmang_theog]

Won't a white man see written Japanese and claim that Chinese. They only claim such so with Vietnamese

[@Niepniep2103]

China's culture is so strong that when the world looks at other countries that have hieroglyphs or wear ancient costumes, they are called Chinese.

[@richards9494]

@@shinshopwtit’s Chinese words, Chinese can understand all the meanings

[@maddieallen9567]

So why was the man writing in what looks like Chinese? Was the current Vietnamese language not popular at this time?

[@cheesewithxbread]

A small subset of Viet Nam are Chinese since Viet Nam is multiethnic. Not to mention the Chinese dominated/imperialized Viet Nam for over one thousand years, so you can see their influences throughout the country.

[@thaian6535]

The current writing system is not our original typography, we used to write in a language that resembles Chinese, which is called Nom, the latin characters are from some Spanish, Portuguese and French preachers that came to Vietnam at that time

[@cariopuppetmaster]

Vietnamese was written in Chinese during this time.

[@mitismee]

That's the public writer they tend to write your certain word and wisdom that tradition still carry nowadays if you come to Vietnam during the lunar New year. And 1930 latin alphabet was still something new in the country, people that went to school still familiarize with the Chinese characters so .

[@NgTye]

​@@cariopuppetmasterkhông đấy là chữ nôm

[@user-ms9ei7tn8w]

malicious Western colonialism