Hop Pickers (1957)

Paddock Wood, Kent. L/S of a deserted railway station, L/S of a steam train pulling into the station. C/U of a sign saying ’Paddock Wood’, M/S of lots of men, women and children getting out of the carriages. M/S as they all make their way down the platform. L/S of two trucks outside the station with lots of people on the back. M/S of a group of women of all different ages sat on the back of a truck. The narrator explains that these people have come hop picking, some have been coming for over 40 years and it has become a family tradition. C/U of one woman sat on the truck talking, L/S as the truck drives away. L/S as a truck drives round the corner towards the camera, C/U of the people and luggage as it passes the camera. The truck has ’Whitbread’ written on the side. It drives up to the Oasthouses. Various shots of the people getting out of the trucks and unloading their luggage. L/S of a woman pushing a pram, she has another woman and a boy with her. There are several other people stood abou