| ALL QUIET AND NOT SO QUIET Contrasting women anglers with women in training for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6768 |
| Catalog #: | 434791 | |
| Clip Number: | 434791-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 218 | |
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| Location: | Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles FISHING: Recreational LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK MILITARY: Army, British MILITARY: Women OCCUPATIONS: Medical, Nurses | |
| Description: | ALL QUIET AND NOT SO QUIET Contrasting women anglers with women in training for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. United Kingdom LS group of women in raincoats and hats, holding fishing poles, pose on pier. Dissolve to LS some of the women now spread out along the rail; they cast their lines nearly simaltaneously. Cut to shot of women standing in same place, none getting a bite. First Aid Nursing Yeomanry training at Arbright. Women in uniform running a gas mask relay race. First runners in each line put on gas masks and take off. Gas-masked runners running round 2 other uniformed women who stand still, serving as markers at the opposite end of their race course. Runners coming back to the line. WS women running back across field to their teams. MLS the 2 teams stand in their rows, now all wearing gas masks; an officer seems to be inspecting them. MLS woman standing, fishing off pier. MS another woman sits holding her fishing rod and looking bored. LS women fishers standing along pier. MS another woman sits holding fishing pole. LS woman casting again. MS 2 women changing a tire; they lift the tire onto wheel of a vehicle which seems to be just wheels and frame. MS woman leans over tying rope to back of a medical truck. MS the women finishing with tire, tightening lug nuts. MLS a few young women stand beside truck with male officer of British Army, c. age 50-60. MS rear view of the bare-bones vehicle w/ new tire: one woman climbs into driver's seat, another woman loads some tools onto it. MLS small crowd of men and women in civilian clothing watching. Medical truck and the other vehicle drive away - the truck pulling the one behind it. LSs of truck driving past, with Red Cross symbol on side; woman stands on running board. Ends with MLS of woman at dusk standing on pier, still fishing, silhouetted against glistening water. | |


