Hopping Season Opens

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1266
Date Released
7 Sep 1953
Date submitted
31 Aug 1953
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hopping Season Opens. DESCRIPTION: The Hopping season has begun, and in the Hop fields of Kent, large numbers of people get busy. If not a complete holiday, it’s a change - and they get paid for it, too. SHOTLIST: Cut story - CU name of place Paddock Wood. Families arrive with all kinds of luggage. Walk down road pushing prams etc., some travel by tractor etc. Move into huts provided. Making beds, drinking tea, generally moving in. GV rows of hop plants. Various scenes of picking and packing of same. Whole families at work. CU hops growing.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Agriculture
Locations
Kent
Card file number
59643
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Camera
Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Length of story (in feet)
104
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Hopping Season Opens', British Movietone News Issue No. 1266, 7 Sep 1953. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/18736 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)