1918 Planting potatoes proves useful during wartime

Date: 9th May 1918

Location: ENGLAND

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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MAIN TITLE

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TITLE: "COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD ...."

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LV. Woman in drawing room, looking through window, shakes her head.

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TITLE: "I'M WORKING HERE ALONE".

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SV. Her husband digging in the garden, mops his brow, then waves an invitation to join him.

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SV. Woman at window turns away.

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TITLE: "I'M SICK OF THIS OLD WAR. I WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING DECENT TO DO".

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SCU. Woman listlessly arranging flowers in vase in drawing room, then walks over to the french window & joins her husband in the garden.

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TITLE: "WELL, YOU'VE SPOILT THE LAWN IT TOOK US ALL THAT TIME TO MAKE".

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SV. Woman & husband in garden.

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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.

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SV. Woman & husband in garden.

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SV. (An imaginary vision). Mother & two children with pinched hungry faces.

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SV. Woman walks away from husband.

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SV. He shakes his head in despair, then resumes his digging.

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TITLE: THAT EVENING

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SV. Woman now dressed in Women's Land Army overalls & carrying a fork, comes into the garden - a little reluctantly at first, then resolutely.

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SV. Woman & husband working side by side - he is digging, she is in planting potatoes.

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TITLE: "OH, I'M SO TIRED & DIRTY, BUT ......"

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SV. Woman sitting on the ground, talking to her husband, then resumes planting potatoes.

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TITLE: AND THE MORAL IS THAT ONE IS HAPPIER DOING USEFUL WORK THAN LOAFING AROUND DRAWING ROOMS.

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SV. Woman & husband working in their new potato plot.

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children, hard labour, farming, planting, poor, WWI, World War I, First World War

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