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A film about the mechanisation of hop cropping. C, U of a man drinking a tankard of beer. He wears a flat cap and has a neckerchief. He smiles broadly at the camera with a ruddy nose presumably he is drunk or an alcoholic. Intertitle reads: Yus ops is me favrit flahr I ve drunk millions of em, I C, U of the man who mouths part of the preceding intertitle then takes a big gulp of beer. But, we re afraid the days of the merry pickers are numbered. Instead of M, S of a group of hop pickers presumably a family, mother cuts bread, father eats something out of a tin and children sit around them also eating. They are obviously in the hop fields having a break. M, S of two women laughing as they work. there ll be Several men stand on a platform moving branches of hops onto an elevator which moves the hops to another location. C, U of the conveyor belt which transports the hops. this, for a giant machine has just arrived in England that does the work of 600 men