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  • Short Summary

    Squads of cycling pickets ride to farms to try and persuade farmers to join them on strike.

  • Description

    Item titled reads - The Farm Strike. Cyclist squads of pickets are patrolling countryside to induce farm labourers "to come out". Norfolk.

    A group of men get on their bicycles and ride off. M/S of them all lined up on a road. M/S of a farmer tending to his horses, the camera pans across to the cyclists waiting on the road. Men on plough horses ride along followed by the cyclists. M/S as a farmer shovels straw off a cart then jumps off the back.

    Note: there is a duplicate copy of this story on *PM0440* - check for best quality - EB 2001.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    302.11
    Media URN:
    23644
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    09/04/1923
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:00:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:11:19:00 / 01:12:19:00
    Canister:
    G 969

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