Detail
Title ID | 1101 | Collection ID | 610 | ||||||||||||
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Title | The Poetry of Motion. Exquisites of the Insect World. Old East Sussex. [Hop-picking] | ||||||||||||||
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ||||||||||||||
Collection | Spot Botting | ||||||||||||||
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Keywords | Aircraft Animals Castles Children Farming Labour Landscape Play Rivers Rural Areas | ||||||||||||||
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Format | Black & White Silent | ||||||||||||||
Duration | 12 min. 45 sec. | ||||||||||||||
Copyright & Access | Copyright restrictions apply, contact Screen Archive South East for details |
Summary
A compilation of four films made by an amateur film-maker. The films' subject matters include motion which is both man-made and of nature, butterflies, historic East Sussex locales and hop-picking.
Description
The Poetry of Motion The cameraman films a Spartan Three Seater biplane flying over the Kent countryside from a parallel plane. Swans and ducks swim across a serene lake. Children play in a small tributary, building a dam and rowing along it.
Exquisites of the Insect World A sequence of close-up shots with intertitles of a variety of butterflies, including Red Admirals and Cabbage Whites.
Old East Sussex The film-maker records an outing to Rye, Winchelsea and Bodiam Castle, filming the historic buildings and streets.
[Hop-picking] A multi-generational group of women are filmed picking the last of the hops in a field. Their harvest is collected into sacks, tallied and loaded onto waiting vehicles.