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Can free Ai software be a tool for tampering with historical ethnographic film? Can we generate jokes and produce fictive moments of retributive slapstick?

The original film from 1901 by Gabriel Veyre is titled ‘Indo-Chine: enfants annamites ramassant des sapèques devant la pagode des dames' depicts two women (the wife and daughter of Governor-General Paul Dourmer) gleefully throwing small coins at local Annamese children. The film is listed as item 1274 in the lumiere Film catalogue.