| CRESS COLLECTORS Watercress harvest in Berkhamsted - scenic shots, men at work, child eating cress. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6753 |
| Catalog #: | 432985 | |
| Clip Number: | 432985-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 174 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Vegetables | |
| Description: | CRESS COLLECTORS Watercress harvest in Berkhamsted - scenic shots, men at work, child eating cress. Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire CU bubbling water. MLS 2 men and a small girl stand looking at the water bubbling up from ground; one man is wading in water, the other 2 people stand on ground c. 1 ft. higher; cows in pasture in BG. Shot looking along field of watercress, w/ canal running along it at rt. Shot looking across canal to soggy cress. LS/MLS 4 workers bent over picking the cress. Continues w/ more shots of cress harvest. They load it onto a cart and push the cart along a narrow railroad through the field. LS workers ankle deep in the cress mess, raking over the area they have just worked in. MCU the little girl sits on cart surrounded by baskets of cress; she herself holds a handfulf and munches on the leaves. | |
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