Children Go Hop Picking (1920)

Paddock Wood, Kent. Intertitle: “DESPITE OFFICIAL ’BAN’ - thousands of kiddies are helping ’Dad and Mum’ in the Hopfields“. M/S of men, women and lots of children standing between rows of hops. Panning shot of a group of children standing amongst the piles of picked hops. M/S of a family sitting amongst the hops having a picnic. The father is eating food straight from a can, the mother is drinking from a sauce pan lid. M/S of a crowd of children laughing and waving hops - iris in to black. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as