| THE WATERCRESS WORKERS Women Harvesting Watercress | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6782 |
| Catalog #: | 441775 | |
| Clip Number: | 441775-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 254 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Vegetables | |
| Description: | THE WATERCRESS WORKERS Women in Oxfordshire harvesting watercress. The watercress crop is gathered by a mostly female work force. Titles mention watercress as a "new secret of health" food fad. Wallingford, Oxfordshire WS looking diag. over watercress beds; at far end workers are bent over picking watercress. LS tilt down: 2 women workers standing in ankle-deep water while they bend over gathering cress and putting it into baskets. LS little girl wading in water beside mother who fills basket, starts to carry it away, followed by the girl. Another woman closing lid of her basket and wading along through the water with it. MLS 3 women and the girl taking handfuls of watercress from piles on stone benches and putting them back into the same sort of wicker baskets; they are beside water which surrounds the cress beds, and there is a small man-made waterfall coming down the bank behind them, other smaller cascades of water splashing down over rocks farther along the bank to rt. Farming, agriculture, watercress, greens, vegetables, harvest, women, children, health, food | |
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