| WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - PIG KEEPING Land Girls keeping pigs and learning how to milk cows. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5106 | |
| Catalog #: | 365421 | |
| Clip Number: | 365421-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 21 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:15:20 - 01:16:35 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1915 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Livestock, Hogs / Pigs LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England OCCUPATIONS: Argiculture / Farming / Raching OCCUPATIONS: Women WORLD WAR ONE, HOMEFRONT: War Work | |
| Description: | WOMEN'S LAND ARMY - PIG KEEPING Land Girls keeping pigs and learning how to milk cows. Women's Land Army work at farms; keeping livestock; etc. Opens with shot of women (in uniforms of long jackets over trousers and boots; with wide-brimmed hats folded up on one side like the Aussies) slopping the hogs, carrying buckets and dumping them into troughs; as hogs come running and start to eat. Woman using a stick to guide a large hog; another woman is sweeping walk outside low brick building. CU Woman carrying young shoat out from behind a walled yard; another woman follows with another pig. Swine of all sizes approaching camera, big sows with cute piglets running after them; and women soldiers bringing up the rear; pushing along a stubborn sow. CU apparatus for learning to milk a cow: sawhorse with a fake cow's udder hanging from it; in front of brick farm building. Woman sets down a pail and a stool and starts "milking". 4 others join her; squatting around to watch; and reaching in to pull one of the fake teats themselves; one girl gets squirted with a stream of milk; they jump back. | |
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