Hop Picking (1950-1959)

Pinewood Stock Can material. Location unknown. Presumably England. MS of Oast Houses - Places to dry hops. Various shots of women harvesting hops. VS of hop fields and of people hop picking - whole families are involved from babies and children to grandparents. VS of mechanised system for picking hops involving tractors and a machine in a building which strips of the hops. Good CUs of the machine. MS of horse drawn wagon packed with hops followed by modern tractor on way to machine. Good scenes contrasting the old and new methods of harvesting hops. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Pa