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Narration: For three centuries...
Visual description: People climb the broad steps of a grand building hung with blue Archive banners.
Visual description: Inside, a clerk assists a mother holding a baby under a sign reading “BIRTHS”. Another clerk presses a blue seal onto a document for a couple. An older official reads a paper at a desk marked “JUDGMENTS”.
Narration: ...one institution had told the islands what counted.
Visual description: The crowded hall has more desks labeled “RATIONS”, “MANIFESTS”, “MARRIAGES”, and “INHERITANCE”. Clerks write and citizens wait with documents.
