Learning on Screen"...the Village Smithy Stands"
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 6
- Summary
- British Pathe synopsis: "At Barrow Gurney on the Bristol Road". The site of a blacksmith shop run by two women. "No spreading chestnut tree adorns this smithy, nor even a mighty blacksmith." M/S of two women working at a furnace. A red hot horseshoe is removed from the flames. "Eve’s arms are not brawny, but they hit just as true." M/S of woman hammering the horseshoe on an anvil, the horse stands outside waiting to be shod. M/S of the girls, one holding the horseshoe on the anvil, the other beating it with a large hammer. M/S of the horse being shod. His hoof is filed, woman smiles at the camera. "Everything comes in a day’s work to these modern feminine blacksmiths." M/S of woman turning handle on a drill. M/S of the other woman filing a piece of metal. M/S of the two women standing and smiling at the camera.
- Keywords
- Women; Industry and manufacture; Employment
- Locations
- Somerset
- Footage sources
- Pathe
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.207
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP207
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 103
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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