| DWELLERS IN CAVES Worcestershire Families Make Homes in Cliff | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6764 |
| Catalog #: | 434231 | |
| Clip Number: | 434231-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 207 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Worcestershire, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Houses, Unusual | |
| Description: | DWELLERS IN CAVES Modern age cliff dwellers in Worcestershire, England. Worcestershire, England First, for contrast, pan up tall apartment building. WS alongside cliff, w/ a crooked chimney sticking up beside it, clothes line hung between cliff & a tall tree w/ long skinny trunk, a couple people perched on rocks, one waving both arms. Another WS cliff; pan down to window frame set into the cliff wall, w/ 2 kids looking out, and a door cut into the rock at left. Shot of boy approaching through unusual rock formations: he ducks through a hole jumps down and walks toward cam. & on to rt. Cut back to shot panning down Berkeley Court apartment buillding in London. MLS fairly close shot of cliff home - doorway, glass window in cliff wall; things like a teapot and cooking pans hang from the rocks. MLS fancier home - looks like wall of a regular cottage of brick & stone. Shot from around corner from first cliff shot: window in sandstone cliff, w/ clothesline between tree & cliff in BG; glimpse of some kids at bottom rt. LS boy in the "front yard", filling bucket from a boxy thing - a covered citern or well? He carries bucket to rt.; meanwhile woman carrying baby approaches from BG along path by cliff. | |
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