| WOMEN WORKERS ON FARM Unusual footage of a group of women who dress like men doing farm work. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6703 | |
| Catalog #: | 369844 | |
| Clip Number: | 369844-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 7 | |
| Timecode: | 01:35:40 - 01:36:35 | |
| Location: | Switzerland | |
| Year Shot: | 1922 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles FARMING: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Switzerland UNIQUE PEOPLE: Cross Dressing UNIQUE PEOPLE: Eccentrics | |
| Description: | See also catalog # 369709 WOMEN WORKERS ON FARM Women in Swiss Village Dress & Act Like Men. "no men in sight. You'd think they'd hang about with the women doing all the work!" Women in a agricultural mountain village in Switzerland who dress and act like men. They wear dark clothing, men's trousers, vests etc. They wear their hair pulled back w/ scarf. Opens w/ shot of Women breaking up soil in sloping garden plot using rake and hoe. MS woman squats milking a goat while smoking a pipe Bringing the cows and goats home from the pasture. MS 2 women in the yard: one leans on a bench smoking a pipe, one stands there knitting. Then wider shot of a few women taking a break, but still dressed in menswear. Women leaning against fence w/ leg up on rail and woman carrying big rake walks up to them. (Cross-dressing, transvestites, oddities, human behavior, farming, homosexuality.) | |
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