Video shows French movie from 1901, not 'Queen Elizabeth II throwing food to poor children'

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Video shows French movie from 1901, not 'Queen Elizabeth II throwing food to poor children'
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⚠️ An old video of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II throwing food to poor children? ❌ This clip is actually from a short film by the Lumière brothers that was filmed in Vietnam and released in 1901 – years before the birth of the late queen

It shows two women -- dressed in white dresses and hats -- throwing small objects towards a group of children who then scramble to collect them off the ground.

The post's Bengali-language caption translates to English in part as:"No one returned with empty hands from the court of Queen Elizabeth. She's giving food to the poor."The post goes on to say that Bangladesh, a former British colony and a member of the Commonwealth, has announced three days of mourning for"the death of an oppressor".

"What an ungrateful and flattering nation we are to forget the struggle of the heroes who died in the anti-British movement," it reads. Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world,Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered Britain's royal family"heartfelt and deep sympathies" over the queen's death, her spokesmanThe same clip was viewed tens of thousands of times after it was shared on Facebook in English-language posts in...

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