| Workers Cutting Belladonna, 1910s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6246 |
| Catalog #: | 369030 | |
| Clip Number: | 369030-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON404C | |
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| Location: | Dorking, England, Great Britain | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HORTICULTURE/PLANTS & TREES: Misc. | |
| Description: | World War One; homefront; war work. Belladonna plants harvested in England for first time; to replace imported drugs from Germany. (Belladonna; and the alkaloid atropine; have medicinal value--as muscle relaxant; etc.-- as well as use as a poison or a hallucinogenic drug.) Workers on a steep hillside gathering the plants. Pan as one man carries a bundle of it to add to a pile. CU Worker standing in the midst of a bunch of growing belladonna; cutting the plants. ECU Worker holding up a plant; pointing at the black berries. (Actually it is the leaves and roots of the plant from which the drug is extracted.) Agriculture; medicine; pharmacology.
Also on 5106 (Orig Film ON21J) and on 5493 (same Orig Film as this one.) | |
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