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3 unusual facts about sackcloth


Sackcloth

Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode (The Life After Death), pp.

According to Adolf Kamphausen, the saḳ was like a corn-bag with an opening for the head, and another for each arm, an opening being made in the garment from top to bottom.

Friedrich Schwally (in Stade's "Zeitschrift," xi. 174) concludes that it originally was simply the loin-cloth, which is an entirely different conception from that of Kamphausen or of Grüneisen.


An Autumn Afternoon

It was shot using Agfacolor, and the credits of the film are placed before a backdrop of painted fronds instead of the sackcloth used in Ozu's films since A Story of Floating Weeds in 1934.


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