Off The Main Track In Newfoundland (1930)

Newfoundland, United States of America. High angle shot of a quaint harbour town. Intertitles suggest that it is a very old fashioned place stuck in time. C/U of a wooden bell tower. M/S of woman walking on rocky ground in front of a primitive house. The woman spreads out pieces of fabric on a rock (her washing?) M/S of a ramshackle house with a man gathering wood outside. C/U of the front of a shanty town style house with broken windows. Man comes and looks out of the window wiping his face. C/U of an elderly woman sitting outside her home carding wool. C/U of her carders as she works. She makes a roll of the carded yarn. “Women folk still believe in being useful, as well as ornamental here“ (!) reads an intertitle. L/S of the woman operating a large spinning wheel. C/U of the spindle of the wheel. “The way to a fisherman’s heart“ is shown to be a pair of knitted mittens. A salty sea dog type smoking a pipe pulls on a pair of mittens whilst the elderly woman watches. A dog plays with