More Bread Please (1933)

Subtitle reads: Just an Idea what these Words mean to the Rural Introductory intertitle reads: More bread, please With us that s just a phrase. In rural Japan it s a prayer a prayer that breaks hearts and M, S of a worker in a paddy field cutting the crop with a hand tool. Black wheat but every sheaf is M, S of the worker binding up the crop and carrying off a bundle. About the nearest approach to machinery in the whole process a comblike apparatus for tearing loose the M, S of woman worker using the combing tool. A child stands close by. C, U of the combing tool. Threshing no job for soft Various shots of women workers. One uses a sieve. Clearing the chaff, just as they did it a thousand years Woman uses a primitive basketwork tool to clear the chaff. C, U of her at work. The drying The wheat is spread out on a drying mat. It is then scooped up into a flat basket and tipped into a earthenware pot. It is then po