:04:00
The women retire home.
:04:05
Many of the poor children
in this city
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work in factories,
craft shops and domestic service.
:04:13
The working hours for these children
in this year 1884
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are as long as the maximum
allowed under Norwegian law
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for people on penal servitude
and hard labour
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and over 1/3rd of the industrial
labour force in this capital city
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is made up of boys and girls.
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- Do the children work?
- Yes, they're at the factory too.
:04:53
Eleven hours a day.
:04:59
- Help yourself.
- I'm too tired.
:05:02
The death of Laura Cathrine Bjølstad,
mother of Edvard Munch,
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occurred in 1868,
following a pulmonary haemorrhage.
:05:12
Sophie has asked me
:05:14
to write down my last will for her.
:05:18
I've called it My Exhortations.
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"My dear children.
I am so afraid that in heaven
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"I shall miss you who are so dear
to my heart here on earth.
:05:33
"But, trusting in the Lord, I shall
beg for your souls as long as
:05:40
"He grants me life."
:05:46
In 1845, Edvard Munch's grandfather
became insane
:05:51
from a disease of the spinal cord.
:05:57
Father walked to and fro
across the floor.