Women's Land Army at Work June 1940

Summary

A recruitment film for the Women's Land Army shot at several farms in Derbyshire in 1940.

Year:

1940

Duration:

0:14:45

Film type:

Black & White / Silent

Genre:

Promotional

Master format:

16mm

Description

The film starts with a long rolling credit that explains the purpose of the film:
"This film has been taken on some of the farms in Derbyshire where members of the Women's Land Army are employed. You will see them going cheerfully about their work, feeling satisfied they are making their contribution to victory, which must be ours. But this can only be achieved by a much larger land army than we have at present. Join the Women's Land Army. Bumper crops will help us to reduce the perilous transport of the seas."

The film comprises shots of women working on farms (some sections are quite dark). We see women driving tractors, weeding, feeding cattle, leading a horse, feeding chickens, milking a cow, filling a bucket with water from a hand pump, washing potatoes. We also see a man shearing sheep whilst a woman operates a hand generator to power the clippers and then the same scenes with the roles reversed.


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