Italy’s Land Girls
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- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- British Pathe synopsis: Italy. "Buxom wenches, and equally at home with oxen or crops - " M/S in an oval frame of a woman leading a group of oxen along ploughing a field. Various shots of the primitive plough being used. "They are harvesting rice here - a real bumper crop." Panning shot of women picking rice crop. NoSles are gathered together. "They keep the "tying fibre" slung on their backs -" More shots of the women gathering up the rice and tying it into NoSles. C/U of one of the women holding NoSles of rice plants. Man uses a pitchfork to load the NoSles onto trolleys. "When Adam gets busy on the threshing, the girls are there to keep him out of mischief..." Panning shot of men and women working at the threshing machine. C/U of two women sorting picking up handfuls of rice and letting it slip through their fingers. "Eve calls it a day..." M/S of woman tipping barrow loads of rice onto a pile.
- Keywords
- Women; Agriculture
- Locations
- Italy
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.211
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP211 Used for synopsis
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How to cite this record
'Italy’s Land Girls', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 516, 23 Apr 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332712 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)