POTATO PICKING TRAILER
Full length video
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Title: POTATO PICKING TRAILER
Reference number: 1058
Date: 1950
Sponsor: [ COI for the Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland]
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 1.04 mins
Description:
Cinema trailer aimed at schoolchildren to persuade them to help pick the potato harvest.
Note: Pathe trailer was released in the cinemas on 17th August 1950, though we still have no production date for the film. See https://www.britishpathe.com/video/glasgow-trailer-aka-potato-harvest/query/wildcard [last accessed 18/05/2020]
Animation in this film recently identified as Halas and Batchelor, the largest and most influential animation studio in Western Europe for over 50 years. For more information see https://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/
Credits: (comm.s. Molly Weir and possibly Harry Gordon)
Shotlist: No credits. Animation film on the necessity of harvesting the potato crop before it rots (0.35); Telegram which reads "SOS Scotland. 50,000 schoolchildren can save us from rotting". Cartoon continues (0.58); Let your children help gather the potato harvest. Details from any school (1.04)