Topical Budget 259-2: Serbian Boys Working on the Land (1916)
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| | | 12/8/1916 | | 35mm, black and white, silent, 72 feet | | | | Production Company | Topical Film Company |
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Serbian refugee children ride and walk through English orchards on their way to work on a large fruit farm.
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What do you think?
- Why do you think Serbian boys are working on the land in Britain in 1916?
- Topical Budget was a British newsreel company which made silent films to show in theatres across the country. Why do you think this film was made?
- They were refugees from Serbia.
- Newsreels were the primary source of news in the early part of the twentieth century. They depicted a cross-section of everyday life from across the UK as well as from abroad so this film was probably a short piece of public interest footage rather than propaganda.
