| WOMEN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS Women's Land Army at work in fields | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5157 | |
| Catalog #: | 367197 | |
| Clip Number: | 367197-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 178 O | |
| Timecode: | 01:42:05 - 01:43:59 | |
| Location: | Maidstone, Kent. | |
| Year Shot: | 1917 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles FARMING: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Kent OCCUPATIONS: Argiculture / Farming / Raching OCCUPATIONS: Women ORGANIZATIONS: Women, WLA (Women's Land Army) WORLD WAR ONE, HOMEFRONT: War Work | |
| Description: | World War one/ women war workers/agriculture. The Women's Land Army doing various types of farm work; this time w/ spectators - - group of observers visiting. Woman spraying tree (w/ whatever pesticides were used at the time?). Another view of same; with group of men & women watching. Back to orig. shot. CU woman riding machine; w/ somemen walking beside. Women driving tractor; pulling behind same machine which seems to be squirting something at ground level; the woman on it is operating levers. Same; from front. Very brief several machines sit nearby; men examining. Women working in field. Woman operating machine; sitting in field. Back to shot of group of machines. 1 woman digging hole; 2nd holds tree to plant. Women working in field - weeding?. CU same; 2 of them stand; talking; 1 sharpens tool. Tree planting again - now putting dirt around tree. Back to the women standing in field; laughing; man behind them is laughing too. Jumps around a bit more between tree and tractor. Farm implements. Labor. Homefront; food. | |
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