The Potato Pickers

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

537

Date Released

17 Sep 1931

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Power and Pleasure
2. 2Eve - From the Tyrol
3. 3How Kippers Leave Home - and Lowestoft
4. 4Little Mothers at the Lawn Lane L.C.C. Girls’ School
5. 5Cuddles
6. 6The Potato Pickers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - women and men harvesting potatoes.
British Pathe synopsis: "It’s a back-aching job too, following the plough and picking up the potatoes." L/S of workers in the field picking potatoes and putting them into small baskets. C/U of a woman picking up the potatoes at speed as she moves along the furrow. L/S of horse drawn cart moving towards the camera. Baskets of potatoes are thrown up to the man who is driving the horse, he empties the baskets and throws them back down again. "So much easier this way - with a tractor and digging equipment." "Alternative attachments for collecting the potatoes can be fixed." Incomplete synopsis.

Keywords

Agriculture

Written sources

British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP221 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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