Central Europe, Rhineland -- Making a Clay Threshing Floor
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.571; E00728
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (20 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film: after the old and damaged threshing floor has been removed, three men fill the recess with fresh clay and moisten it with water. Cattle are driven over the doughy mass in order to knead the material. A village youth stamps down the clay by playing hopscotch on it in his bare feet. After men work with special tools to further prepare the floor, it is flattened with a smoothing board.
Legacy Keywords: Germany ; Central Europe, Rhineland ; Europe