These are the kind of picture postcards tourists and colonial officials sent home. Pathé made a filmstrip of photos of the colonies to be shown on their projector Cocorico.

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  1. This video is really precious for Vietnamese people especially the youth. So thank you very much for uploading these invaluable documents.

  2. Vietnam was so beautiful before the communist party took over and polluted the waters and air … thanks for this video!!!!

  3. Au Tonkin also know as kinh (Vietnamese )people they are came from China . Today they encroach Montagnard indigenous territory persecution and genocide never end.

  4. Poverty under foreign rule in the 1920s. Now, Vietnam is poverty under communist rule. What an unfortunate and miserable country.

  5. Hundred years ago . French have the same mind as
    China by now : They're think they can come over to build
    everything as they are owned ( same as Truong Sa and Hoang Sa island etc..)
    Later they have to run away left everything behind ….The China is expert in
    copying yet never learned ….

  6. my great grandfather who lived in vietnam at the time who served in the war, would be in his mid 20’s by this video.

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