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Country Manners

1952 , Essex (County)

Cat no. 556

The ill effects of tourism on the countryside.

A peaceful country scene. A farmer leans on a gate and surveys his farm. There are cattle grazing and fields of oats and barley waving gently in the breeze. He addresses the camera to wonder aloud; what will Saturday and Sunday bring? The film answers his question. People are seen arriving in the countryside by train, leaving the station, by bus, by cycle and by car. There are shots of children and adults playing in a field. The film then shows the scenes after they and other people have left. On the field there is litter everywhere, cans as well as paper. Cows are in the road. There are gaps in the hedges and the crops are trampled underfoot. A ewe lies dying and a straw stack smoulders following a fire. The farmer takes the viewer back to show how these disasters were caused. A family picnics by the straw stack and a boy discards a glass lemonade bottle. A couple leave a gate open. An oil barrel has been rolled through a field and people have been walking through the crops. A woman walking her border collie has let him off the lead and he has chased the sheep. Returning to the lemonade bottle, this has lain in the sun and begun a fire that has destroyed a straw stack.

Keywords

Countryside; Tourism

Manifestations

Country Manners

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