Women Leave For Australia AKA Surplus Women (1920)

Tilbury, Essex Intertitle: “SURPLUS WOMEN? First batch of discharged and Land Girls leave for their new home in New South Wales“. After the First World War, the female population is far greater than the male so many women were encouraged to emigrate. High angled L/S of a crowded poop deck on a passenger liner - throngs of men, women and children look towards the camera. M/S of two girls in Land Army uniforms walk along the deck towards the camera. Nice C/U of the two girls - they look a bit embarrassed and smile in a self conscious way. Good high angle M/S of a group of women on the deck - they seem in very high spirits and wave handkerchiefs at the camera. 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