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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

10724

Title

[AFRICAN CHILDREN DIGGING]

Producer

4th Baron Egerton of Tatton

Date

1927

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

11 mins 36 secs

Description

African children digging in a field and making bonfires of the vegetation taken from the fields. Men working with oxen ploughing the earth and pulling carts then the men cutting wooden stakes and putting them into bundles. Men removing rocks from a cart then a man breaking a large rock with a hammer The film ends with a carpenter planing wood followed by a herd of oxen crossing a river.

 

 



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