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[Reed Cutting and House Building]

1947 , Rockland St Mary (Norfolk)

Cat no. 1326

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Reed cutting for use in house building.

Broadland scenes. A swan swims on the river and there are shots from a moving boat of reed beds and general river views. Three men cut reeds with a sickle. There is a close-up shot of this showing the technique involved. The reeds are tied together and then piled up. A flat bottomed boat takes a way a stack of reeds. These are built into a reed stack on the bank. The second part of the film shows the reeds used in house building. In a modern equivalent to wattle and daub techniques, the reeds are made into a curtain and fastened to a wooden structure. There are exterior and interior shots of men fixing the curtain to this structure. A worker prepares the plaster and this is smoothed over the reed curtain. It is patterned whilst still wet. There are shots of the house half finished and when complete.

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Reed cutting

Background Information

This technique was used to build a music room onto a house at Rockland St. Mary. The room was later demolished because of damp.

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