Fact Check: Video shot 26 years before Queen Elizabeth II’s birth circulates online with FALSE claim

A video purportedly showing the moment Queen Elizabeth II was throwing food at African children has surfaced online.

A twitter user with the handle @Frankie_dux posted the video on the September 9, 2022, with the caption, “This is the Queen herself throwing food to African kids like chicken and then you all have the audacity to post and type Rest in….”

The video has since garnered 331,000 views, 1,882 retweets, 401 quote tweets, and 5,473 likes as of the time it was retrieved from Twitter.

Another Twitter user @Nderitu_SM posted the same video with the caption, “This is who she was…nothing to respect here!!!”

The video has garnered 1,066 views, eight retweets, and 25 likes as of when it was retrieved from the microblogging platform.

Queen Elizabeth II, a highly revered British monarch, was announced to have died at her private castle in Balmoral on September 8, 2022.

That was two days after Liz Truss became the 15th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The 96-year-old Queen was regarded as the longest-serving monarch in Britain after reigning for 70 years.

The Queen’s death has since sparked mixed reactions, with some blaming her for the British colonial rule over some African countries.

The video shows Queen Elizabeth II throwing food at African children.

THE FINDINGS:
Findings by The FactCheckHub showed that the claim is FALSE.

The findings revealed that the video is a scene from a film shot by Gabriel Veyre in the French colony of Annam, French Indochina (now Vietnam), between April 28, 1899 – March 2, 1900.

Gabriel Veyre is a French filmmaker who travelled across the French colonies in Vietnam and shot motion pictures for the French government.

He produced 39 films, which were commissioned by the French government and shown at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

This particular scene in question depicts two women throwing coins at Annamese children, according to a French website called Catalogue Lumière.

One of the women in the video, identified as Madame Paul Doumer, was the wife of Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, the Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902.

The other young lady on the right was her daughter.

The coloured version of the video was uploaded here by History Upscaled with the caption, “1899- Indochina, Vietnam – Women throwing coins for children to pick.”

Another clearer version of the video was uploaded here by Early Cinema with the caption “Vietnamese Children (1900)- by Gabriel Veyre.”

The caption to the video reads, “A French woman throws food at the children of Indochina. The Lumiere brothers recorded this to show.”

Queen Elizabeth II was born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary on April 21, 1926, in London. So she couldn’t have been the one in the video filmed before 1901, as claimed.

THE VERDICT:
The claim that the video shows the moment Queen Elizabeth II was throwing food at African kids is FALSE. Findings by The FactCheckHub showed that the scene was shot 26 years even before Queen Elizabeth II was born.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/fact-check-video-shot-26-years-before-queen-elizabeth-iis-birth-circulates-online-with-false-claim/

Indeed...

False claim

So black people eat coins in those days. because I clearly saw them pick it up and throw in their mouths.

Now what brought all those nonsense?
Is it because she's dead!


If the torture was so unbearable and unpleasant to your eyes y'all should've called her out when she was alive not now .

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Fact Check: Video shot 26 years before Queen Elizabeth II’s birth circulates online with FALSE claim



https://www.icirnigeria.org/fact-check-video-shot-26-years-before-queen-elizabeth-iis-birth-circulates-online-with-false-claim/

Mynd44 nlfpmod

Ignorant runts, this happened in Asia in india that was known as British Raj during colonization,so you're just as clueless as those folks in that video and it is Queen Elizabeth

All of you saying nonsense come and see your self oh. She might have enjoyed privledges from the government but you see its the cabinet that this to you
note:the run a parlimentary system of government so she doesn't control cabinent nlfpmod

Stupid fact checker, when will you fact check your destiny if dem never use am do yahoo

The queen and the British empire had a strong dirty past but so was all empires including present America.

There is no denying the fact that Britain owes Biafrans and other colonies apology for some of their misdeeds. However I am glad to find out this video was not that of the queen.

On a flip side throwing money for people to pick is what most blacks do themselves presently. Did we not watch Bauchi state governor not long ago? What of Zubby Micheal them mumu gang throwing money.

So let's move forward from all these. Thanks

Who else hates this "Fact Check" topics and support the banning of any Fact Check related topic here?

I always knew it was fake

Ok

False as usual

Off course she did. We all know this government sponsored fact check rubbish you always do on this forum is the government trying to do some weak damage control

Unfortunately for the Nigerian government what they don't understand is the world is now a global village with internet. Your fact checks don't decieve anyone

Now go and drink water and rest. The queen was a cunt like most imperialist colonizers....

Nothing new to see here

Africans will always find something to say.
I knew the video was fake anyway

It's very difficult to make some people see things,na only wetin oga talk.

Qtrpst4:
Stupid fact checker, when will you fact check your destiny if dem never use am do yahoo

So someone colonized u and improvised u but u waited till she died before complaining.

I'm also against celebrating her but condemning her now is useless

Let us move on

What should we do with the video?










Guys wey no get girlfriend get peace of mind

Ok

Of course... its FALSE.

I don't know why people are accusing the Queen falsely, as if human beings themselves aren't the worse of God's creation

I knew it

You can't give a dog a bad name to hang it

Let the dead rest in peace biko

Our destiny is in our hands

Not in the hands of any colonial master

The findings revealed that the video is a scene from a film shot by Gabriel Veyre in the French colony of Annam, French Indochina (now Vietnam), between April 28, 1899 – March 2, 1900

IPOB Terriost and fake news

So this people don dey deal with Africa for years

Great

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Nigerians and fake news.
Imagine a movie made 20 yrs before she was even born.
Those kids don't even look like blacks.