Huts By The Hundred! (1940)

Titles read: “HUTS BY THE HUNDRED!“ Near Catfield, Norfolk. Various rural countryside scenes on a farm; farmer using a tractor-drawn tiller on a field; pigs eating at a trough; farmer leads horses beside farm buildings. We then see a colony of workshops where hundreds of army huts are made in sections. Planks are sawn and planed, hammered together to make the sides of the huts. C/U of a toothless farmer laughing; a young man (referred to as a ’cow-keeper’) smiles and hammers away. The hut sections are sprayed; glass is fitted into panes. The sections are packed onto trucks and driven off to army camps. 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 Grap