News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

308

Date Released

26 Apr 1927

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Flower Harvest - in Cornwall
• 2. Hair Notes
• 3. (Untitled record)
• 4. (Untitled record)
• 5. (Untitled record)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - women at work harvesting and packing flowers.
British Pathe synopsis: Introductory intertitle reads: "Work in the breeze - work in the sun - all for Eve - for "her" eyes are those which light up with the brightness of these flowers - " L/S of group of men picking daffodils in a field - presumably a large plant nursery in Cornwall. C/U of a man bending down with his hand full of a large bunch he has picked. L/S of the flowers being gathered together. Boxes of flowers are put onto a cart which is drawn by a horse. "Eve does take a hand - in fact a lot of hands - in the bunching and tying of these Cornish NoSles of sunshine - " M/S of seven women working at a bench tying the flowers into bunches. They laugh as they work. Closer shot of two of the women at work. Another view of some of the women at work. "But, Adam, of course, does the boxing and cutting." L/S of men chopping the ends of the stalks off and gathering together in larger bunches. C/Us of a teenage boy at work. C/U of the bunches being placed into boxes. The boxes are then stacked onto a cart. The horse drawn cart is led out of the greenhouse stacked high with boxes.

Keywords

Women; Horticulture

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   5 May 1927 p58.
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP092 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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