Ariège, Cerdagne, Corbières, Minervois (Extract)
This film illustrates these four regions with images of a distant time when farmers beat cereals with flails, their movements transforming the hard collective work in a kind of happy dance. A car travels on its own through deserted roads that lead, from village to village, to a farm where the whole family, parents and small children, is at work: a wooden wheel, blindfolded oxen, wheat...
- Year
- ca 1914
- Type
- Film
- Length
- 00:01:59
- Gauge
- 35mm
- Sound
- Silent with added sound
- Image
- B&W
- Notes
- Full lenght: 00:07:46.
- Restored in 2007 by Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna.
- Music performed by Mathieu Regnault.
- Genre
- Documentary
- Theme
- Agriculture, Regional Heritage, Sites and monuments, Society and traditions, Wine and wine-growing
- Film archive
- La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
