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Title: CROPS 5

Reference number: 10882

Date: 1941 / 1945

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.57 mins

Description: Compilation of various agricultural activities including ploughing, sowing and harrowing.

Shotlist: C/u's crops under snow. Women break leaves off tops of stems. Bagging pea pods. Woman drops insecticide? powder into cabbage hearts by hand. Women hoe broadleaf crop. Weeding? Horse walking towards camera. Women in cropfield, c/u weeds. Man broadcasts powder over field. Women drop pellets? into cabbages. Man cutting trough between leek? furrows. Farm buildings; gvs women pick spring onions in field next to rail line, wagons in b/ground. Women hoe seedlings steam train in b/ground; c/u hoeing. Horse drawn drill. Gv's ploughing. Fertilising. Mowing; in slow motion [dark]. tractor draws machine between furrows, leaving crop. Men cutting alongside furrow using horse drawn blades. Spreading dung on a field from a lorry. Harrowing. Lifting carrots/parsnips.