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The Drainer

Archive type: Video
Archive ID: lcva_97368
Date: 1994
Location: Beyond London
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:02:58
Credits: View

Synopsis

The video is a one-shot street interview with a man crouched over the gutter with a bread knife, looking for coins. The interviewer asks if there’s a name for such a profession, to which the man replies: ‘Draining’. The man explains that he works as a Drainer as a result of his poor health condition which causes frequent black-outs.

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