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Title: WINTER ON THE FARM

Reference number: 1913

Date: 1935

Sponsor: Glasgow Education Authority

Production company: Elder Dalrymple Productions Ltd.

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.40 mins

Description: An educational film showing jobs required to help animals through winter months on a mixed farm.

One of a series of educational films produced for the Glasgow Education Authority. Distributed by SCFL from its inception in 1939. Originally shot on 35mm. Archive holds teaching notes.

For review of film see Scottish Educational Film Review Volume 1, Review No. 32.

Credits: Film No G-84.

Shotlist: Credits (0.07); General views of farm buildings (0.24); Feeding the sheep. young worker forks turnips onto a horse-drawn cart; distributing turnips in fields for sheep; c/u sheep eating (2.19); Food for the cattle.; older man cuts turnips into slices using a grate; he carries them in a basket or "scale" to the byre (3.08); Bedding for the cattle. Horse-drawn cart loaded with hay. Boys walk across farm yard, carrying a load of hay on a blanket (3.49)