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JAPAN-1953: Two men work on a city street, one digging with a shovel while the other stands nearby, surrounded by wooden fencing and a building with a fire escape. The scene shifts to a woman in a headscarf sitting on a sidewalk, cradling a child, with a tin can beside her. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows a grainy, purple-tinted color palette typical of the era, capturing a poignant contrast between labor and poverty in post-war Japan.
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