Glass-House Girls! A Cheshunt Story

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
517
Date Released
30 Apr 1931
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
NoS synopsis: Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. "These particular ladies grow cucumbers and don’t throw stones." M/S of two women walking past a row of greenhouses. Interior of the greenhouse, the women pick cucumbers. C/U of cucumbers hanging down. Various shots of the women as they pick the vegetables and lay them carefully into boxes. C/U of box full of cucumbers. "All that’s missing is the salmon!" The girls carry out the boxes. Girls sort the cucumbers, they are laid carefully in wicker baskets. "Adam takes the result, of course!" Men lift the wicker baskets onto the back of a lorry.
Keywords
Women; Agriculture
Locations
England; Hertfordshire; Cheshunt
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.211
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP211
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How to cite this record

'Glass-House Girls! A Cheshunt Story', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 517, 30 Apr 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332714 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)