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A Day in the Hayfields (1904)

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Very often when people think of England, they conjure up images of an idealised rural landscape on a hot summer's day; in 'A Day in the Hayfields', Cecil Hepworth gives us just that. We see the men and horses reaping and stacking as the village babies play in the piles of hay, throwing themselves into the soft grass with unalloyed abandon. The film is a classic example of the 'interest film' - in one of its manifestations, the interest film would document agricultural or industrial process from beginning to end - here we see the haymaking from reaping to the finished rick, filmed with an eye for the picturesque. Although made before the book was even written, the film will strike a chord with anyone who has read Flora Thompson's 'Lark Rise to Candleford' - this is the genuine article. (Bryony Dixon) You can watch almost 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the new BFI Mediatheque - http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediathe...

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: BFIfilms

Length: 04:20
Rating: 5.00
Views: 3279

Tags: 1900s  BFI  Candleford  children  countryside  Edwardian  farming  horses  Lark  Rise  

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etypebob (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Excellent! It's wonderful to look back like this.
kghjgl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
very good thanks a million
workingcowhorse (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i love to see this...
daveholt777 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
indeed!!
madbob73 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Sobering thought that all of those boys frollicking in the hay would have been fighting a war in 10 years time
BreadBoardpan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Good show.
TheSanityInspector (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ah-CHOO! Very bucolic, love the footage of the frolicking tots. Thanks for posting.

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