- Title: Planting potatoes proves useful during wartime
- Date: 9th May 1918
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: A New Version ENGLAND: INT/EXT ENGLAND MAIN TITLE (7ft) TITLE: "COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD ...." (10ft) LV. Woman in drawing room, looking through window, shakes her head. (18ft) TITLE: "I'M WORKING HERE ALONE". (21ft) SV. Her husband digging in the garden, mops his brow, then waves an invitation to join him. (27ft) SV. Woman at window turns away. (37ft) TITLE: "I'M SICK OF THIS OLD WAR. I WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING DECENT TO DO". (42ft) SCU. Woman listlessly arranging flowers in vase in drawing room, then walks over to the french window & joins her husband in the garden. (64ft) TITLE: "WELL, YOU'VE SPOILT THE LAWN IT TOOK US ALL THAT TIME TO MAKE". (69ft) SV. Woman & husband in garden. (73ft) TITLE: "SHOULDN'T WE BE A BIT ASHAMED OF OUR LAWN, DEAR, IF WE KNEW THAT PEOPLE WERE STARVING FOR WANT OF THE FOOD WE MIGHT HAVE GROWN. (84ft) SV. Woman & husband in garden. (88ft) SV. (An imaginary vision). Mother & two children with pinched hungry faces. (93ft) SV. Woman walks away from husband. (98ft) SV. He shakes his head in despair, then resumes his digging. (102ft) TITLE: THAT EVENING (104ft) SV. Woman now dressed in Women's Land Army overalls & carrying a fork, comes into the garden - a little reluctantly at first, then resolutely. (108ft) SV. Woman & husband working side by side - he is digging, she is in planting potatoes. (124ft) TITLE: "OH, I'M SO TIRED & DIRTY, BUT ......" (127ft) SV. Woman sitting on the ground, talking to her husband, then resumes planting potatoes. (134ft) TITLE: AND THE MORAL IS THAT ONE IS HAPPIER DOING USEFUL WORK THAN LOAFING AROUND DRAWING ROOMS. (143ft) SV. Woman & husband working in their new potato plot. (148ft) children, hard labour, farming, planting, poor, WWI, World War I, First World War
- Embargoed: 24th May 1918 13:00
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- Location: ENGLAND
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: War / Fighting,Lifestyle
- Reuters ID: LVA3BGADVAERET8PG2HS4CJJFDFP
- Story Text: Man and woman planting potatoes during the war
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