Chinese Cottage Industry
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1994.14.3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
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content: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (11 minutes, black-and-white silent)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film with intertitles. Scenes of various cottage industries in rural China, including towelmaking, paper manufacture, carpetmaking, and match manufacture. Contains scenes of small boy making wire hooks for sale. Also shows typical tradespeople - the butcher, the laundryman, the tinker, the barber, the baker and the dentist. Released by Australasian Films Ltd.  

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