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Topical Budget 255-1: Women Hay Makers (1916)
 

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Main image of Topical Budget 255-1: Women Hay Makers (1916)
 
35mm, 53 feet, black & white, silent
 
Production CompanyTopical Film Company

During World War I, land girls make hay on an Essex farm.

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Scenes of women war workers fascinated British audiences, to whom the very idea of women working at manual occupations considered solely the reserve of men was astonishing, and for many quite shocking.

This deftly-shot item sugars the pill through its pastoral images of agricultural work, as land girls work on an Essex farm.

Luke McKernan

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Topical Budget: War and Propaganda
Topical Budget: Women