Maxwell Market (Tape 1 of 2)

30/04/1999
Record Date
00:17:00
Recorded Duration
1999000834
Accession No.
Audiovisual
Type
Hi-8
Format
Access permitted
Conditions Governing Access
Use and reproduction require written permission from depositing agency/donor. Processing of reproduction request may require 7 working days.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Synopsis :

Signboard 'Maxwell Road Food Centre'; entrance porch with pillars and stone inscription 'Maxwell Market'; inside entrance porch, telephone booths; view of the inside of the Centre; man in booth collecting money for use of toilet; man in Centre squatting to wash pots; food stalls; lady washing vegetables in pails on the floor; high corrugated-iron roof with ceiling fans; buckets of water on the floor, line of dirty plates; people queuing at a food stall; stall in the market selling biscuits; extensive footage of tins of biscuits with their prices and weighing scales; children buying biscuits from the stall, stallholder weighing biscuits and packaging them; view across Centre to two altars where a lady is burning joss-sticks for prayer; view from the Centre to Maxwell Road and surrounding buildings; inside the Centre, man making dumplings; people queuing for food; porridge stall; exterior of the Centre as seen from Maxwell Road, pedestrians crossing the road to the Centre; road sign "Maxwell Road' and 'Maxwell Road Food Centre'; inside of the Centre.