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Title: HAYMAKING

Reference number: 1915

Date: 1936

Sponsor: Glasgow Education Authorities

Production company: Elder Dalrymple Productions Ltd.

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.15 mins

Description: Horse-drawn mowing and raking machines at work in a field.

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. 111.

Credits: Distributed by Educational and General Services Limited. Film no. G-88.

Shotlist: Credits (0.06); Horse-drawn mowing machine at work in a field (1.07); Men make haystacks, two types of horse-drawn raking machines at work (2.06); Hay is made into stooks in field, then tilted onto float and driven to yard where they are lowered off the float hay is collected into a hayrick (2.26); Lifting ricks by block and tackle onto wagon; hay lifted to stack using a mechanical grapple; shots of large haystacks. The End (6.05)