After the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, a video has been widely shared on social media showing two women throwing food stuff at a bunch of kids squabbling over it. It is claimed that Queen Elizabeth II is one of the women in this video, which was apparently filmed in a former British colony in Africa.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “This is the Queen herself throwing food to African kids like chicken and then you all have the audacity to post and type RIP? If there is real life and justice after death, May Elizabeth and her ancestors get what they deserve.”
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Extracting keyframes from the viral video and performing a Reverse Image search, we traced a French website — Catalogue Lumière — which stores an archive of movies produced by the Lyon, France-based Lumière firm.
According to the website, the image was taken from a Gabriel Veyre movie that was produced in French Indochina between 1899 and 1900, in the French province of Annam (now Vietnam). On January 20, 1901, the motion picture was shown in Lyon, France, with the title “Indo-Chinese: Annamese youngsters collecting money in front of the ladies pagoda.”
The website has further stated that the women in the movie are Madame Paul Doumer and her daughter. Madame Paul Doumer is the wife of Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, who served as the Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. Gabriel Veyre, a French filmmaker, traversed the French colonies in Vietnam between 1899 and 1900. He produced about 39 images and motion movies for the French government to display at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. This occurred 26 years before the birth of Queen Elizabeth II.
When we looked for the movie on YouTube, we found a higher-quality version that had been posted to a channel dedicated to Lumière’s filmography. “Lumière: Annamese children collecting pennies in front of the Ladies’ Pagoda (1900),” was the title of the video.
The video makes it abundantly evident that neither of the women in it resembled Queen Elizabeth II who passed away recently. In addition, we can make out Chinese writing on the structure behind the woman. Given that the structure is a pagoda or a centre of worship for the Buddhist religion, it makes reasonable that the writing found by Google Lens was about Buddha.
Thus, it is evident from the above information that the video is being shared with false claims.
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