The Drainer
digital file Colour Sound 1994 2:58
London Community Video Archive
Subcollection: Undercurrents
Category: Documentary
Theme: Portrait of a place Social Issues
Locations: Oxford
Summary: A man makes a living by retrieving coins out of Oxford's gutters.
Title number: 23085
LSA ID: LSA/30373
Description: The video is a one-shot street interview with a man crouched over the gutter with a bread knife, looking for coins. The interviewer asks if there’s a name for such a profession, to which the man replies: ‘Draining’. The man explains that he works as a Drainer as a result of his poor health condition which causes frequent black-outs.
Credits: Undercurrents (Filmmaker)
Keywords: draining
Locations: Oxford
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London Community Video Archive
Subcollection: Undercurrents
Category: Documentary
Theme: Portrait of a place Social Issues
Locations: Oxford
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