A tour of the Chinese city of Peking (Beijing)in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
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@song18614 жыл бұрын
1:40 that guy was waving to us. Hello from 2020!!
@AlexRoseGames3 жыл бұрын
little did that guy realise that would be the most famous thing he'd ever do in his life. that 3 second moment will be preserved for centuries when everyone else who long forgot his name have died
@user-wu9bs3dc8j3 жыл бұрын
ディズニー
@MrCakocalypse3 жыл бұрын
He was a nice guy which you would like to meet and have a cup of tea and talk😃
@mandocool2 жыл бұрын
Nice people wave
@Coltsfan3 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was born in Beijing in 1929. It's really great to be able to see what she may have seen as a child. If she wasn't blind now with cataracts, I'd show her this to see if it jogs her memories of old Beijing.
@JgvnkhgbbKhrfhutfhk3 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was born in Peking in 1931. She just passed away two months ago. It would have been nice if I could show her this ...
@elena163504 жыл бұрын
This commentary was humane, unlike arrogant commentaries that showed the contempt they were held in by some. Much more objective about his subject, their is empathy there too.
@avecmoi94293 жыл бұрын
However, he is completely wrong about how Chinese see death. I am an American economist who taught and researched for 12 years. I also saw of Chinese cry wen her loved ones or friends died. They also have plenty of sympathy for foreigners who are grieving In other words, Chinese are ordinary humans. Births deaths, anniversaries, etc. are all important to Chinese and other humans. Also the announcer is completely wrong about Chinese not liking their pics taken for fear of losing their soul. This has always been absolutely fails Chinese quickly embraced photography when it started in the 1800s.
@PureVikingPowers3 жыл бұрын
Very inaccurate commentary but i like the video if muted
@MeiinUK2 жыл бұрын
@@avecmoi9429 : I think he's talking about Confucianism.... i.e. Meaning that... chinese people, see death as a motivation to be good, in this lifetime. Even today.. people often see death.. or to imagine death.. in order to do good... as a living human being.
@Miracle-world777Ай бұрын
In those years Medias and reporters were much more independent Not yet controlled by politicians
@eddielung3115 жыл бұрын
For a 1930 documentry, this is an exceptionally positive comment on China.
@geogsf1794 жыл бұрын
America had a more positive feeling, albeit paternalistic, toward China than other powers. That is, until now.
@mathewtoll67804 жыл бұрын
Weren't they allies at that time?
@MrLarossi4 жыл бұрын
@@geogsf179 because China at that time had a different government than current one
@JKMT4 жыл бұрын
@@MrLarossi China had a government that was a slave that obeyed everything
@user-bd2oh3hp1j4 жыл бұрын
Because back that time China is a poor and weak country, cannot be the quote “strategic competitor” of USA, so its OK for positive. but now.... haha
@diromeo15 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting all these films on the net. They are all very important documentaries.
@Yorosero15 жыл бұрын
The contrast between the rich Chinese and poor Chinese is very clearly shown.
@antediluvianclockwork97694 жыл бұрын
The gap is even wider today!
@sheldonfish51614 жыл бұрын
same thing today
@antediluvianclockwork97694 жыл бұрын
@@sheldonfish5161 food back then was better
@s0so3284 жыл бұрын
Antediluvian Clockwork lol what? There is, of course, a wage gap but it is obviously smaller for the general population
@user-kw4wc1he4h3 жыл бұрын
America today is pretty damn obvious as is most countries other than those countries where like half of your earnings is taxed and you’re given shit healthcare in return... oh wait those countries have extremely rich and extremely poor too!
@yulin77704984 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing this footage...I've visited Beijing twice before...amazed by the architectures from this footage even after 80+ years.
@florisdevries10 жыл бұрын
this really a great movie, shows bejing a long time ago.....
@liyawei11 жыл бұрын
thx for uploading!
@liliencalvel61515 жыл бұрын
It was not long ago that the last of old China was destroyed to make way for today's modern structures. Thousands of years of culture and tradition were lost forever. This was only about ten to eleven yrs. ago. It is so sad to see such beauty lost.
@jacklee-oc3tv5 жыл бұрын
no...it was 1966-1976
@GinnyC19612 жыл бұрын
I have a Chinese Great grandmother who was born in Foochow. She married an American who was working for the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Two of their sons lived in the same area as my Grandmother and much about her relationship with one of them remains clouded with the perceived shame of out of wedlock pregnancy with a biracial young man.
@slavish_superiority Жыл бұрын
You can tell her, in today's China, no one cares about such things anymore. Almost half of the young people have the experience of unmarried pregnancies. Those with biracial blood are more fashionable.
@GinnyC1961 Жыл бұрын
@@slavish_superiority I wish I could've met My grandfather and his family. But either they weren't allowed to know my father or they didn't want to.
@weizhang2834 Жыл бұрын
Thanks anti China propaganda for 73 years!
@slavish_superiority Жыл бұрын
@@weizhang2834 Sensitive and suspicious, narrow -minded
@EPsuperFan14 жыл бұрын
这就是祥子时候的北京阿,太感动了!thanks for posting
@bongbong45886 жыл бұрын
Notice the Chinese-men are not wearing pig tails, for the most part, anymore. They wore them in the Qing dynasty 1200 till 1912. By the 1920's pig tails were no more ! Thanks for the upload!
@perfectstudents83615 жыл бұрын
I think it's more accurate to call it "queue" rather than "pigtails." The Qing Dynasty didn't start in 1200. It ruled China for almost 300 years from 1644 to 1912. In 1922, the last emperor Puyi cut his queue (pigtails) too.
@liliencalvel61515 жыл бұрын
@@perfectstudents8361 Thanks for sharing.
@liliencalvel61515 жыл бұрын
You are beautiful. Are you Chinese?
@AlisoViejoMan4 жыл бұрын
I jonesing for some cake. He kept calling Peking “Piping” so often I couldn’t help think about piping on frosting onto a cake. So now I’m craving cake
@erikschaepers3 жыл бұрын
I always think of a plumber when he says "piping" .. good documentary though
@Miracle-world777Ай бұрын
In those years, Peking (Beijing) was called piping (Beiping)
@BainDH13 жыл бұрын
Wonderful documentary! The narrator could have done a wonderful W.C. Fields impression with just a little adjustment.
@Alice-ov3rd3 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating!
@DavidisDawei5 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@bigfatdick500014 жыл бұрын
2:37 That's the Tiananmen Square !! Look carefully it still doesn't have the Mao portrait hung up there yet.
@geogsf1794 жыл бұрын
Haha, a good one. He was hanging on to his life in 1930. He eventually won. That's what has mattered for China.
@user-ne8uj5ux7g4 жыл бұрын
@@geogsf179 And Mao fucked china up.
@mtlicq4 жыл бұрын
wow your comment is from 10 years ago already ! internet is getting oldl Look even more carefully, Someone else's portrait is hung there. Who is it?
@rainoa55584 жыл бұрын
@@mtlicq see u next 10 years
@song18614 жыл бұрын
@Qianlima exactly like it or not Mao united China.
@duoduoto22894 жыл бұрын
I was just there two weeks ago!!it is magnificent!
@squreshi1013 жыл бұрын
Love that guy at 1:41, he's all like NI HAO!!!!!
@lonelywarrior77715 жыл бұрын
Wow! What history and I am not living too far from where this was taken! Incidently, I'm American!
@morimori63604 жыл бұрын
This video amazed me.!
@christianinnerhofer8234 жыл бұрын
You tried to give me coronavirus with this comment (joke) 🤣
@naomivazquez5119 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video 📷, I always enjoy the company of Chinese people, and the food!!
@The_Velum3 жыл бұрын
Getting a 13 year old video about history recommended cause of youtube algorithm? "You know me too well..."
@13thwho Жыл бұрын
This was one of James A. FitzPatrick’s earliest “Traveltalks”.
@Fronika11 жыл бұрын
China is so fascinating.
@5t3ltbl44 жыл бұрын
see u in beijing
@angelusvastator12974 жыл бұрын
Not so much anymore.
@ZoltanDeluxe4 жыл бұрын
Shameful that the beutiful culture that China had were erased by the CCP. I hope they find their way back.
@slavish_superiority Жыл бұрын
Most of the monuments here are ruined,Like the old city walls, all torn down by Mao....Even if something exists today, the surrounding environment and the decoration of the exterior have been wrongly refurbished, and turn to the Tourism Profitable Project
@xiangvun11 ай бұрын
@@ZoltanDeluxeMe too 😊😊
@jpoch Жыл бұрын
I have a feeling the guy at 1:40 figured out time travel and wormholed his way from our times to 1930 to wave at us.
@MrBrianxie14 жыл бұрын
i think the video taker was very excited when getting on the great wall
@acewadert11 жыл бұрын
En la toma del minuto 5,40 se pueden ver a las mujeres de la época luciendo su tradicional "pie de loto" (una deformación producida de manera forzada de los pies para que no crecieran). Ojo ese era un lujo. Hoy ya son muy pocas las mujeres que se aprecian con esa deformación, sólo ancianas de edad muy avanzada o artistas de la "Opera de Beijing"
@mastomasto61974 жыл бұрын
Sim uma tradição cruel para certas mulheres de algumas etnias.
@cho073015 жыл бұрын
Yes ! I love KMT !!
@infoworld77064 жыл бұрын
Thank God, No people say free Tibet, free Xinjiang in this video.
@madden80214 жыл бұрын
Or free Hong Kong and Taiwan is the official China.
@DeclinedMercy4 жыл бұрын
Tibet was functionally independent at this time
@coolspace27862 жыл бұрын
@@DeclinedMercy aka functionally a scam lip service
@CrazyLeiFeng4 жыл бұрын
0:12 Notice the Republic of China map...
@mingpoyang4 жыл бұрын
This map showed Mongolia and Tibet were very much part of China. Only Mongolia got independent later. This claim Tibet was a independent nation can be said to be totally false.
@CrazyLeiFeng4 жыл бұрын
Mingpo Yang It includes Tannu Tuwa too, I believe. Now it’s in Russia.
@DeclinedMercy4 жыл бұрын
Tibet was functionally independent from 1912 until the PLA invasion.
@dkwhattouseasusername1012 Жыл бұрын
Idk if this is sarcasm, can't really tell through the screen but that is the Qing dynasty's or I think it is because Mongolia is inside
@user-ko1zu7tm6n4 жыл бұрын
那时候的视频影像
@bigfatdick500014 жыл бұрын
I support your comment to the 1000th degree.
@MeiinUK4 жыл бұрын
It's funny when he called it "piping", but I suppose back then, people didn't have a standard pronounciation as well. He was kind of wrong when he stated that was "the temple"... I think that was a section of the Imperial Palace.... Maybe dated as far back as the Qin dynasty... I presume. He said "the chartered city", what did he mean by that ?? So the "Forbidden City" was allowed to be filmed ? Somehow I do not think that he was a priest. I am guessing that he was an enuch.. or one of the old Imperial's servants... and he looked after the building. If the other "palaces" for Ming or whatever "dynasties" were created outside of this. It meant that, once the old Dynasty had fallen, and someone created a new dynasty, the old ones, were not lived in. There is a myth that, most chinese do not like old things. This is why... but... It isn't one do not like old things, rather than to respect that it belonged to someone else, and it should not be owned or something. The Emperor prayed ?? I think the Emperor kowtowed to the sky to "hope" his subjects were loyal or something...
@MeiinUK4 жыл бұрын
He mentioned that the women's feet were bound and that Empress Dowager Cixi was in the other palace ? I am assuming that, she made women bound their feet to keep their circulation or other. Cos it occurred to me only in recent years that chinese were anaemic... So I can now understand how bound feets were really a way to keep circulation going. She was known as one of the matriarchy to keep the lineage of the empire going.... I now get why TCM was always so important to us Chinese.... It was to keep the population going. I know that ginseng was really a Korean thing, which prolonged circulation or other. Or rather, maybe in hindsight, more like Mongols... Or Manchu race by that time I think. And those haircuts... I think those guys were probably villagers who still followed the Qing dynasty's dress code etc. Maybe Hans Chinese.. This is actually a really sad video... In my mind, a lot of things finally clicked... I cannot really believe that this was from the 1930s...
@davec16153 жыл бұрын
he said the "Tartar city" (likely referring to the Manchu section) , not "chartered city"
@user-ry6sx4xv1x3 жыл бұрын
您说的特对,特正确
@slavish_superiority Жыл бұрын
It's not "Piping", but "BeiPing"(北平),another name of Peking(北京)city. it should sounds like “bay-ping”....western foreigners often pronounce wrong Mandarin.
@slavish_superiority Жыл бұрын
the Temple of Heaven(天坛) is another palace outside Forbidden city(紫禁城故宫),used for offering sacrifices to heaven god and praying for the New Year,it's not a section of the Imperial Palace. the first time Peking city became a Imperial capital is Liao Dynasty at 1125 AD,not Qin dynasty.
@gonojaja13 жыл бұрын
I like the smiling face of the barbar.
@ysa44732 ай бұрын
0:29 1910년대 지어진 한국의 부산역하고 너무 비슷. 그리고 인디애나주 인디애나폴리스에 모자의 챙처럼 나와 있는 구조와 유사한 구조의 건물도 있음.
@rainoa55584 жыл бұрын
4:33小时候 记得都是这么剪头的
@alancwwong11 жыл бұрын
I heard the narrator said "Piping"?
@victorwaiholim5154 жыл бұрын
Mispronunciation of Peiping
@bluesofmorderer76964 жыл бұрын
It's Beiping, one of the many names of Beijing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Beijing
@MeiinUK4 жыл бұрын
@Morel Lefèvre : Thanks ! I never knew that....
@changjianguo55603 жыл бұрын
Beijing(北京) was called Piping(北平)too.
@eddielung3114 жыл бұрын
@cuteameri no, much earlier, in the 1890s
@dkwhattouseasusername1012 Жыл бұрын
Just noticed how old the video and reply were
@NangongReng197310 жыл бұрын
Actually, the narrator wanted to say " Beiping" ,the Chinese pronunciation? Instead he said 'Pipe ping'. He could have just said Peking .That will do.That's why a lot of Chinese used Christian name for eg Tom Chan or Simon Li etc.For the convenience of most foreigners who doesn't know how to pronounce in Mandarin.
@barrelrolldog5 жыл бұрын
actually he was saying it was hot, piping hot is an english expression. so he said its piping. also he may have been commenting on the pipes that were everywhere at the time.
@geogsf1794 жыл бұрын
What a typical dumbass from HK
@iceomistar43022 жыл бұрын
Peiping was the old Postal Romanisation spelling of Beiping. Postal Romanisation and Wade Giles was based on the dialect of old Luoyang which up till 1850 was the official Sociolect of the upper classes.
@lilMissF0F0 Жыл бұрын
I wish China kept building traditional buildings rather than modern boring buildings! Us tourists are really fascinated by these architectures and pagodas
@user-bn8tt4hu1h4 жыл бұрын
哎哟😄
@user-bn8tt4hu1h4 жыл бұрын
哎哟
@user-kh9hi2yg4m4 жыл бұрын
刚出狼穴又入虎口,真可谓是多灾多难啊
@kemurajohn12493 жыл бұрын
Shame that most of these monuments were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution
@LD_movies10 жыл бұрын
2:35 天安門に掲げてある文字は「 要废除不平等条约 」 (Abolish the unequal treaties) ?
@user-wh8em5mx7y6 жыл бұрын
今は「世界人民大団結万歳」だよね
@kennyholeater24945 жыл бұрын
You are a wicked Godless race -- we America will crush you by any means necessary
@monkey88845 жыл бұрын
@@kennyholeater2494 America cannot do anything.
@charptho4 жыл бұрын
@@kennyholeater2494 how are you supposed to crush them if all your hammer are made in china ?
@johnnywatson46296 жыл бұрын
3:27 who was this guy, like a boss ?...
@liliencalvel61515 жыл бұрын
Lol!
@liliencalvel61515 жыл бұрын
You should go pay him a visit.
@blee045244 жыл бұрын
@@liliencalvel6151 hes a dead meat
@ssfiore4 жыл бұрын
He's a priest of the temple, as narrated by the narrator. just a positive fella
@Miracle-world777Ай бұрын
Even in those years, 1930s He understood that he was recorded, that's truly amazing
@johntung789 Жыл бұрын
At 2:38, the caption should say "Tartar City," not "charter city."
@DrJones2014 жыл бұрын
@eddielung31 Why should it be negative? China wasn't communist before 1949 . . .
@mr.cebuano28434 жыл бұрын
Because the Roller are not (han) chinese
@DrJones204 жыл бұрын
@@mr.cebuano2843 Roller?
@mr.cebuano28434 жыл бұрын
@@DrJones20 ruler
@user-xr1tx1kf6f2 жыл бұрын
すごすぎる
@ZERKERBER Жыл бұрын
Now Peking is a great metropolis. On the basis of such poor, undeveloped and constant wars, great changes have taken place in less than one hundred years
@DJVOICEPRODUCTIONS4 жыл бұрын
2019 anyone?
@sanpoloke61264 жыл бұрын
me
@thetonedeaftenors11 жыл бұрын
Highlight for me was seeing those women with the bound feet hobbling along. While more difficult to visit, I guess China was more easy to visit in the 1930s before it was closed off in 1949 by the Communist takeover.
@SangSang-qm9xv4 жыл бұрын
2020 anyone
@deltaphil4 жыл бұрын
Piping : Before Downfall TGO
@boobooberry14 жыл бұрын
Lol the guy at 1:42! Stealing spotling was already existant in China 1930 xD
@humpty42053 жыл бұрын
5:03 Fck I wanted to see the final haircut
@slavish_superiority Жыл бұрын
It's not "Piping", but "BeiPing"(北平),another name of Peking(北京)city. it should be pronounced like “bay-ping”....westerners often pronounce wrong Mandarin.
@vivaCross15 жыл бұрын
I REALLY WANT KMT CAN COME BACK !!!
@Brandonhayhew4 жыл бұрын
China is one of the most interesting nation in the world.
@johnnywatson46296 жыл бұрын
China's territory was so vast back then.
@nakinilerak3 жыл бұрын
Is anyone else surprised that the percentage of Chinese within the total of humans on the planet has not changed? Still about one fifth. I thought today a higher percentage of humans would be Chinese. Perhaps the Indian subcontinent's rise in population accounts for that?
@MeiinUK3 жыл бұрын
Sorry, going from 700 million to 1.4 BILLION under 200 years is a GOOD thing ? I do not think so.
@ryan895543 жыл бұрын
You discovered an ancient Chinese secret
@hqi13214 жыл бұрын
If only China had decided to industrialize like Japan, there was so much squandered potential
@EnergyDot4 жыл бұрын
Well China did industrialize, 100 years later than japan in the 1990s.
@angw12684 жыл бұрын
Well they did, just a bit late. U forgot that China was actually the #1 Gpd with India at #2 at the start in 18th century. If Europeans weren’t so greedy...
@user-mx8gq8yz7m4 жыл бұрын
@M T Don't forget history, but don't be confused by history. Why did the Kuomintang fail, is evil over justice? If the Kuomintang had treated the people well, history would have been very different.Now Taiwan is just a frontier for the U.S. to attack China. So the U.S. supportfors Taiwan's development. Also divide the river and rule is the wisest decision.
@dkwhattouseasusername1012 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't really that possible because of the corruption and superstition and a little later also got invaded by the West and Japan
They don't know that they're about to die many years later, do they? nguyenkhan202 3 months ago --Nor does anyone else!
@umang-umang4 жыл бұрын
The Hui Chinese were the Citizen China
@iceaerobic46922 ай бұрын
việt nam có ai xem như tui hem nhỉ 😍
@susandonahue8653 жыл бұрын
Four walled cities, ... “The North are Tartar cities”
@MeiinUK3 жыл бұрын
I think he said "unchartered cities".. whatever it meant.
@davec16152 жыл бұрын
the "tartar city" is where the manchu ("tartar") elite of the qing regime lived.
@MeiinUK2 жыл бұрын
@@davec1615 : By "Tartar City", does he mean the Muslim-Chinese ? The ones that helped Empress Cixi to fight the Hans ? (Sorry, my chinese history, of the entire prc region is not so clear...)
@rushius Oh , everything you've said is true despite the fact that Chinese lack self-esteem, over.
@Kumar-fq9mm Жыл бұрын
Kuldhara
@sicaifan79373 жыл бұрын
and beijing now ? i think battle more new york
@fedinhorax13 жыл бұрын
@askjiir because in the 1930's europeans thought of themselves of the best, the creme de la creme :P the second world war took away any of that thought what the first world war did't
@PureVikingPowers3 жыл бұрын
Very inaccurate commentary but i like the video if muted
@billanderson46194 жыл бұрын
"Pi Ping" makes my skin crawl. The correct pronunciation in Mandarin is "Bay Jeeng" (phonetic), written as "Beijing" in Pinyin, the official Romanization system of the Peoples Republic of China.
@Alternatives_Universum3 жыл бұрын
Yes but the correct pronunciation in English is "Pi Ping". The Mandarin pronunciaton doesn´t matter as the commentator was speaking English. So in this case the English pronuciation has to be choosen.
@rickyzhang9953 жыл бұрын
Beijing was known as Beiping at the time of the video
@billanderson46193 жыл бұрын
@@rickyzhang995 You are correct. That occurred to me after I posted my comment. "Northern Peace,"
@MeiinUK3 жыл бұрын
@@billanderson4619 : Everything in Chinese is more or less poetic, so when translated into English, it should be more descriptively done, "Peace of the North".
@Kumar-fq9mm Жыл бұрын
Balaquila
@user-vg7vv3jv8m7 жыл бұрын
那时候天安门还没挂毛泽东。
@kennyholeater24945 жыл бұрын
You're a Wicked Godless race of people and America will crush you by any means
@liliencalvel61515 жыл бұрын
@@kennyholeater2494 America is not a model nation itself.
@ithinilben46725 жыл бұрын
when china was clean...中国干净的时代。。。
@user-nv2jo1vs8q4 жыл бұрын
James Johnson 你想要去那个时代?呵呵,真干净!
@sanpoloke61264 жыл бұрын
@@ithinilben4672 奴隶时代
@Kumar-fq9mm Жыл бұрын
Padmini fort
@wholeNwon4 жыл бұрын
How they would soon suffer with horrible genocide and war, then rise dramatically from the ashes.
@bathtubgin192911 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, some still do.
@naomivazquez5119 Жыл бұрын
I would Love to be surrounded by more Chinese people 💌
@iceomistar43022 жыл бұрын
北平
@elizabethbrower6403 жыл бұрын
Peping, Peking, Beijing. Lol. Which is it? The north is a tartar city? That isn’t correct. They would have been Manchu, not tartar.
@dkwhattouseasusername1012 Жыл бұрын
Well to simplify and not go back too long, 北平(Peking) was the old name of 北京(Beijing) before the PRC made it it's capital in 1949(I think that's the year, don't remember)
@Kumar-fq9mm Жыл бұрын
Jauhar kin$a[illa rajasthan knal
@rushius13 жыл бұрын
@WuBingWay How about you learn your own history, it's only called Beijing because of Mandarin Chinese which is only about 700 years old. The major spoken languages in the past were all Cantonese related and in these languages it sounds more like Puck King which was commonly written as Peking. You complain about others not knowing Chinese history but you don't know it either.
@archiebald47173 жыл бұрын
Yet to be destroyed and depopulated by Mao.
@jingjincsh200914 жыл бұрын
@tibet4504 do you stand for the majority of tibetans? prove it if you can
@mirror23984 жыл бұрын
How the narrator deliver his script feels a bit racist
@Mitarashi04169 ай бұрын
今の中国よりこの時の中国の方が好き
@user-hb9jq7wb7l5 ай бұрын
死了的日本人才是好日本人
@Miracle-world777Ай бұрын
Of course In those years before 1945 ... Japan was much more superior in term of military weapons compare to China, that's why Japan wanted to invade China Japanese has never come to mind that in thousands of years when China was much more superior than Japan, China was always be a good teacher to Japan without having the intention to invade Japan Therefore, in terms of characters and virtues Japanese is much more inferior than Chinese
@marcuscheung50254 жыл бұрын
The narrator is probably dead by now...
@edison27kong4 жыл бұрын
Marcus Cheung everyone in this video is probably dead by now including the toddlers 😱
@marcuscheung50254 жыл бұрын
@@edison27kong Which sends chills down my spine
@thepeachprince11 жыл бұрын
This is the most subversive and xenophobic documentary regardless of the fact its from the 30's. The narrator's pedantic voice has undertones of positivity, at best.