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Title: UTILISATION OF LABOUR

Reference number: 10887

Date: 1937 / 1939 / 1940

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Running time: 15.30 mins

Description: Compilation of agricultural footage demonstrating the interaction between farm labourers and machinery.

Shotlist: No title. Tractor ploughing. Group of women broadcast seed potatoes? tractor ploughing, work group in b/ground; gvs work group. Kodak leader. Gvs tractor pulling potato harvester; women work to collect potatoes, intercut man empties full baskets into cart. Gvs clamping potatoes. Kodak leader. Gvs sorting potatoes; man makes up weighed bags, woman sewing bags shut. Work group move potato conveyer and portable engine to clamp, set up drive belt. Kodak leader. Gvs tractor-drawn pointed frame between furrows. Gvs women knock roots together. Women cut leaves from roots, working along furrow. Knocking roots together. Men cut leaves from buried roots, walking along furrows. Small group collect roots into cart; cart is emptied onto larger pile which is loaded onto lorry. Brief shot sheep. Kodak leader. Men spread seaweed? onto field. Boy harrows field. C/u sprouts. C/u flax. GVs three men operate reaper binder, one drives as other two feed binder. Woman cuts turnips, men load into cart, construct clamp. Gvs gathering hay. Gvs man mows field on machine drawn by a flatbed lorry, boy dangling his feet on blade side. Moving stack using a hay rake. Men broadcast unid. powder in a rank; brief shot man refills basket from cart.