| THE LADY BRICKLAYERS Women Construction Workers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tape Master: | 6706 | |
| Catalog #: | 371757 | |
| Clip Number: | 371757-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 20 | |
| Timecode: | 01:39:27 - 01:40:43 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles CONSTRUCTION: Buildings LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK OCCUPATIONS: Laborers OCCUPATIONS: Women | |
| Description: | THE LADY BRICKLAYERS Young women workers on construction project, erecting a building for a women's college. Women look college-aged, 18 - 22, all wear overalls (trousers, pants), but some of them at least are also wearing pumps w/ heels. Wide shot building under construction, looking upward toward top of building. Workers stand on roof and on beams of top floor. MS women shoveling sand or gravel onto a screen which sifts it. MS 2 of the women stirring mortar in a big square container. Another squirts water in w/ a hose. MLS women shovelling stuff from a pile into a wheelbarrow. Girl in FG fans herself w/ her hat. LS workers drive a pair of draft horses up over a big pile toward building. Horses are dragging something behind them. Cut to shot of horses returning. At quitting time, man in suit w/ back to camera stands talking to the workers who stand around him. He & they wave goodbye. The girls run off. | |
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