Woman Gardeners Aka Women Gardeners Issue Title Is Mum’s The Word! (1943)

Part of issue MUM’S THE WORD. Australia. Women help war effort by joining the Garden Army. Various shots of women volunteers working in communal gardens: we see them digging, using horse drawn plough, hoeing, shovelling manure, spraying crops with insecticide and picking carrots, lettuce and a gigantic pumpkin. 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 well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
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