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