Full titles read: 'According to Ancient Custom - Apprentices... each garbed in costume of 1,100 calves tails... celebrate their promotion to title of "journeymen butcher".'
Munich, Germany.
L/S panning across a large crowd in a street; at the front of the crowd are numerous men in...
Full titles read: 'According to Ancient Custom - Apprentices... each garbed in costume of 1,100 calves tails... celebrate their promotion to title of "journeymen butcher".'
Munich, Germany.
L/S panning across a large crowd in a street; at the front of the crowd are numerous men in white. M/S of young boys in uniforms and wearing white aprons. M/S of the apprentice butchers, covered in 1,100 calves tails, standing on a platform; you can hardly see their heads, they are completely hidden by the tails! M/S of the tail-covered men in a fountain, splashing water over the watching crowd.
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