Housewife Scrap Merchant (1961)

Ipswich, Suffolk. M/Ss of Mary Ford coming out of her house in Milton Street with her children Michael, age 7, and Rosemary, aged 11. She kisses Rosemary goodbye and the children walk off. Mary watches them go up the street, then gets into a truck outside the house and drives off as commentator says “In between looking after them and the housework she also does a man-size job; for Mrs Ford of Ipswich is probably Britain’s only woman scrap dealer!“. M/Ss and C/Us of Mary driving along, then arriving at a scrap yard, where she throws various bits of scrap metal onto the back of the truck with great gusto (I think this section has been speeded up slightly to make it look more effective). C/Us as Mary throws some metal on the ground to break it up and picks up an old wheel and a circular metal grid and tosses that onto the truck, then puts the boards up. Commentator says “Even in these days of female emancipation one doesn’t easily visualise the so-called weaker sex doing jobs like this. In fact, su