This is actually part 1...or so Youtube says. Early in the video you can see some traffic in the Hutongs in Beijing....bikes and trikes and a single fast back car of unknown origin. At 1:49 a postal worker doles out mail from his bike.
Then more traffic. Trucks and Beijing 20/20 jeeps filled with soldiers vie with 28" roadster bikes for the roadways. At around 3:20 that fast back coupe appears again. Hmmm...
People eat ice cream...and then mysteriously at 4:50, several women in Indian dress appear. Odd. Well, Beijing is the capital. Perhaps they were embassy staff??
The film moves on to The Temple of Heaven, swarming with people and blaring patriotic music. At 7:30 the camera shifts to the bike park out side. It is endless.They continue to film the bike lot for over a minute until 8:40. How many black 28" roadsters are there? Who can count? Maybe ask the soldier who appears at 8:10!!
Whatever the numerical total, it's quite clear that this Italian film crew is obsessed with the bicycles!
That "fastback" car looks like a Warszawa, made in Poland in the 1950s and 60s.
Posted by: Ken | December 27, 2011 at 04:27 AM