| HOLIDAY PUSH ALLOTMENTS Civilians Prepare Wartime Garden Allotments | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5167 | |
| Catalog #: | 367646 | |
| Clip Number: | 367646-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 205 I | |
| Timecode: | 01:09:33 - 01:10:19 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1914 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Vegetable HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Victory Garden LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England WORLD WAR ONE, HOMEFRONT: Rationing & Shortages | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 518157 World War One; homefront; agriculture. British Civilians preparing wartime garden allotments. Old man stepping on shovel trying to push it into soil; a younger man; for some reason not at the war; and a woman turning up soil.; others in BG also working. MS 2 elderly men digging a narrow ditch. Man weeding; woman planting. CU same woman kneeling - planting; & securing string dividing rows or plots; hoe sticking into frame at left; other women w/ rakes in BG; little girl c. age 3 wandering around. CU planting potatos (?) man (or teenage boy) bending over & dropping pieces of potato into the little ditch; other man raking beside him. Food. Farming. | |
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