A Chinese Market (1901) Online

If you have read the comics, you remember the big panel with Tintin in a rickshaw. Well, this movie is exactly the same thing: a Chinese streets with a lot of Chinese lanterns, no women, a lot of soldiers from western or oriental armies and for sure a road filled with carts and rickshaws (no car yet in china!).

Watching this traffic, i found this vehicle completely degrading and a flagrant human rights violation! indeed, the drivers are treated like cattle or horses and in addition to use all their strength to move the carriage, they are expected to run! For sure, the passengers appear rather old or wealthy but to see their own kind doing the job of animals left them cold, unconcerned!

With this kind of movie, we can understand how this new modern visual medium can help to build a more civilized world as it's an eye opener... Something every generation must keep in mind !!!