The Day's Work
1946 - The Day's Work - Carpenter and Son Go To Work
"Two Thousand Years Ago; A reconstruction of Life in Palestine in the time of Christ." "The Day's Work." Credits. All set against stone/brick wall. Wide of a a hillside Palestinian village. Adult Caucasian man and male child leave home with donkey; loading donkey's back with pieces of wood. Man waves back to youngest male child, who waves back. Man, boy, and donkey arrive at shop. Man unloads wood from donkey, briefly speaks to another adult Caucasian male. Man takes off his coat, rolls it up to use as a cushion, takes a wooden window sill and mallet to begin work.
1946 - The Day's Work - Carpenter and His Son
Adult Caucasian male and male child at their carpentry shop where the man sits outside, using mallet to build window sill; adult Caucasian female walks by, holding large jug on her head. Child takes a mallet and works on creating a yoke used hold a pair of oxen. Adult Caucasian male farmer arrives and wants to buy a yoke. Farmer inspects a couple of yokes. Boy eating a fig or date. Male carpenter points to Arabic sign on his shop. Farmer pays man for the yoke. Carpenter ties donkey before he and his son go to visit a customer; carrying a door frame and window sill for installation. Man and son walk through village streets. Man and son arrive at the house; man calls to the adult Caucasian men working on roof. Roofer constructing roof by spreading mud over brushwood.
1946 - The Day's Work - Roofers
Adult Caucasian male looking down; holding rope in hand. Adult Caucasian man looking up. Basket being lowered by rope. Basket tapping top of Caucasian male child's head; boy shakes fist at the man (o/s) who's lowering basket. Boy climbs up the outdoor stairs leading to the roof. Boy's foot goes through unfinished roof; adult Caucasian male roofers help remove mud and brushwood so the boy's leg can be freed. Roofer laying tiles on the edge of the roof, using trowel to lay and spread mud.
1946 - The Day's Work - Potter
Elderly adult Caucasian male potter molding, cutting, and remolding a lump of clay, then placing it on a potter's wheel. Foot spinning pottery wheel. Potter doesn't like progress, restarts. Backside view of potter working while adult female shops at adult Caucasian male's outdoor shop across street. Potter creating pot, cutting it off the wheel with a length of wire, and places the new pot with other pots on a shelf in the back of the shop. Potter takes three pots outside, rear of the shop, where he prepares the kiln and places the three pots in the kiln.
1946 - The Day's Work - Potter and Carpenter
Adult Caucasian male customer arrives at potter's shop; claps hands. Elderly adult Caucasian male potter leaves kiln to see customer. Customer and potter inspect different pots, haggle, before the customer buys and pot and pays the potter. Customer turns and walks to the adult Caucasian male weaver working across the street before walking away; potter sits at pottery wheel in FG. Potter molding clay; adult female speaking with adult Caucasian male vendor across street. Caucasian male foot spinning pottery wheel. Caucasian male child watching potter work. Adult Caucasian male carpenter stop by and talks with the potter; Caucasian male child stands in BG with a donkey. Carpenter and his son wave to carpenter's daughter, who waves, and runs to her father; she rides briefly on donkey. Father and son go to doorway where the donkey lives.
1946 - The Day's Work - Family Meal
Caucasian female child hops down from outdoor stairs and walks to her Caucasian female mother, who is preparing dinner underneath staircase. Older Caucasian female child pours water over the younger female child; wash basin underneath. Adult Caucasian male father and his Caucasian male son arrive, wash hands for dinner. Men sit down, eat first. VS of father taking piece of bread, dipping in bowl of olive oil, then in stew before eating. Son eating. Women watching. Father drinks wine poured from animal skin bag. Women sit down and eat.
1946 - The Day's Work - Family
Caucasian female child eating a piece of bread, along with her mother; youngest daughter tries to reach into pot, pulling it toward her, but the mother stops her and shows her how to dip and eat bread. Family sitting together on ground, eating dinner while the eldest daughter gets up to retrieve a stick that she lights on fire; proceeds to walk inside the house and light the lamp. Family gathered around a fire, lit by charcoal, inside the house; donkey in the FG as the mother joins in, holding infant. Once all together, the father unrolls a scroll and reads a history of the Jews; VO reads scriptures. Hebrew language on scroll. Mother and daughters listening. Family gathered on the roof of the house; Caucasian male child comes up stairs holding a pair of scrolls and gives it to the father. Father reading to the family; pan down to open scroll. End credits.