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Joe (Christopher Schlusser) is ill and has come back home. Things have changed. His father (Tony Llewellyn Jones) is now helping around the home and has signed the pledge, promising he won’t drink again. Talking to Joe, he shows a picture of himself when he was four or five in the great depressions of the 1890s when he helped his widowed mother selling her knitting door to door. Dad apologises to Joe.
Curator’s notes
This clip captures the moment when things start to get better between Joe and his father and his father is presented in a more sympathetic light. The story Joe’s father tells of helping earn money for his mother when he was a tiny child is revealing, and further expands the notion of children working. Joe’s little brother and sister also list the work they could take on to help the family.
