Daffodils
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
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- 1 / 4
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Eve gathering daffodils in the Scilly Isles.
British Pathe synopsis: Scilly Isles. Eve gathers the daffodil harvest. M/S of a woman bending down to pick daffodils. M/S of group of men and women picking the flowers. "Dainty messages to tell us that Spring is here - " L/S of two women working together - it is pretty windy. Boxes of daffs are stacked onto a small barrow. This is then taken inside where women tie NoSles of flowers together. C/U of women holding bunch of daffodils - posing for the camera. "And thousands of cases of daffodils cross the narrow Channel to Penzance." M/S of cases of flowers being unloaded from a boat. Men work together to move the flowers. Shot from the boat as it leaves or approaches a harbour. - Keywords
- Horticulture; Employment
- Locations
- Scilly Isles
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 29 March 1928 p57.
The Bioscope 29 March 1928 p54.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.95
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP095 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
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How to cite this record
'Daffodils', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 355, 22 Mar 1928. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331822 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)