The roof beauty parlor of a cosmetic company on the roof of its New York building; Making cloth out of the wool of the Angora rabbit; The forbidden city of Beijing, China, and the Temple of Heaven, where Chinese emperors were crowned..
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Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have ten minutes to kill and a high tolerance for 1930s newsreel whiplash. If you like history, sure. If you get annoyed by movies that don't know what they want to be, stay away. It feels like a fever dream of a travel channel exec. The whole thing starts on a roof in New ...
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have ten minutes to kill and a high tolerance for 1930s newsreel whiplash. If you like history, sure. If you get annoyed by movies that don't know what they want to be, stay away. It feels like a fever dream of a travel channel exec. The whole thing starts on a roof in New York. We're looking at a beauty parlor. It’s bizarre to think people were getting perms while looking at the skyline in the middle of the Great Depression. The camera work is stiff..."
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