Images of China (movie)
Images de Chine- User score: 5
- Production country: China, France
- Producer: Auguste François
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 4/8/1904
- Run time: 52 min.
Movie description
In Yunnan, at the end of the Qing dynasty, Auguste François, consul, photographer and amateur ethnographer documents, thanks to a camera provided by Léon Gaumont, scenes of daily life in the streets of Yunnanfu (now Kunming) , but also more exceptional events: a procession, a pagoda feast, a funeral, a performance of the Chinese theater. "Images de Chine" is not a film, but a compilation of all those films made by "La Cinémathèque française" for private showings, with an overall duration of 52 minutes.
