| ITALY'S LAND GIRLS Wheat Harvest & Threshing in Italy | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6765 |
| Catalog #: | 434396 | |
| Clip Number: | 434396-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 211 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Italy | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Grain, Wheat | |
| Description: | ITALY'S LAND GIRLS Peasant woman leading train of oxen through field. Women at work bringing in the rice crop in Italy. Italy "Buxom wenches, and equally at home with oxen or crops - " LS man walks behind the oxen holding the plough. Various shots of the primitive plough being used. "They are harvesting rice here - a real bumper crop." LS pan on women in field harvesting rice. MLS woman cutting with sickle. "They keep the "tying fibre" slung on their backs -" LS pan on field. Women gathering bunches and tying them together; they carry a bunch of pieces of twine hanging from their waists. MLS/MS same. MCU woman poses holding 2 bunches of rice. MLS one man tosses sheaves up with a pitchfork to another guy who covers a platform with them. "When Adam gets busy on the threshing, the girls are there to keep him out of mischief..." WS pan on threshing operation: guys pitching the rice up to the top & loading it into thresher. MLS grain coming out of machine. MCU 2 women bend down, scooping up handfuls of grain as it comes out. "Eve calls it a day..." MLS woman empties wheelbarrow onto a long mound of grain; another woman sweeps it up into the pile; in BG a 2-story house w/ laundry hanging on clothesline. | |
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