| FLOWER GIRLS OF LINCOLNSHIRE Nice footage of girls at work harvesting and packing daffodils. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6729 | |
| Catalog #: | 429998 | |
| Clip Number: | 429998-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 94 | |
| Timecode: | 01:54:50 - 01:56:55 | |
| Location: | Spalding, Lincolnshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1929 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Harvest FARMING: Plant Nursery, Flowers HORTICULTURE/FLOWERS: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England OCCUPATIONS: Horticulture OCCUPATIONS: Women | |
| Description: | FLOWER GIRLS OF LINCOLNSHIRE Girls from the town of Spalding pick tulips and daffodils. MLS group of girls, most of them teenagers, gather around a man who gives each one a bunch of pipe cleaners (?) tied together. Wider shot girls walking bent over along the rows, picking flowers. MS girls stand up right in front of camera, twist the pipe cleaners around a bunch of flowers. LS girls sit on the ground holding out cups while one of them walks along w/ a large kettle pouring tea. MS 3 of the girls sit drinking tea, eating basket lunch, & reading books or magazines. Note the cool fabric worn by the girl on the left. MCU pan on group girls holding large bunches of flowers. LS in field: girls walking toward camera carrying bunches of flowers which they put into a large basket. MLS girl lifting basket of flowers onto truck. Wide shot truck approaching on straight dirt road through the field of flowers. Interior warehouse: 2 girls carry a basket of flowers in and set it down; trays are stacked everywhere. Shot looking along row of girls working at long table, their hands moving at fast speed. MCU more girls place flowers on a little rack, tie the stems. CU same; this makes the flower heads arranged in a vertical row instead of all together. MS 2 girls packing a box full of daffodils tied in these long bunches. | |
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