Helping the Wine Harvest

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

501

Date Released

8 Jan 1931

Length of issue (in feet)

1058

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 7

Summary

NoS Summary - Grape harvest in Switzerland - women and children at work and having lunch.
NoS synopsis: "The kind of picture of Switzerland we mostly think about is this sort -" Landscape shot of Swiss Alps. "There is another aspect, however, of that snow-capped home of the mountains - the fertile vineyards in the summer." C/U of a woman in peasant style dress eating a bunch of grapes. She smiles and nods at the camera. C/U of two women cutting bunches of grapes from the vine. M/S of women harvesting grapes. Man with a large basket on his back crouches down in front of the women and they pour grapes into the basket. A young boy is helping with the harvest. C/U of bunches being poured from the basket into crates. A wheel is turned and the grapes drop down inside a small press. L/S of a cart which has a cow to lead it. Large barrels of grapes are loaded onto the cart. M/S of the cart passing the camera. "A brief interruption" comes in the form of lunch. The grape pickers sit around having a picnic lunch. "Then the already crushed grapes are taken to the big press and the juice pumped away. (The men excel at this job)." Various shots of men carrying large barrels of grapes. Two men work a press. "A glass of wine - and thou..." C/U of man and woman sitting close together and sharing a glass of wine. They then kiss each other. "But, even old man Omar didn’t anticipate these wine fanciers!" M/S of a motorcycle and sidecar laden down with girls moving down a street towards the camera.

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Agriculture

Locations

Switzerland

Footage sources

Pathe Re-issue

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.204
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP204
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

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Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

210

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