HARVEST TIME
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Farm labourers stacking sheaves and building a haystack in the 1940s. (clip - onsite only)
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Title: HARVEST TIME
Reference number: 3076
Date: 1946*
Sponsor: British Instructional Films
Production company: pc. Pathe Production and BIF
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 5 mins
Description:
Harvesting of wheat by hand and machinery.
Teaching notes in additional info. file 11/1/166.
Shotlist: Title (0.22) pan field of wheat (0.49) c/u farmer sharpening scythe (1.05) Opening the ways c/u labourers scything paths through the field for the harvester, tying stooks of wheat up by hand (1.46) Binder at work gvs harvesting machine cutting corn, and stooking it (2.40) The sheaves are set up to dry gvs farm workers stacking sheaves in a rick (3.11) The harvest comes home gvs loading horse-drawn cart with a pitchfork, men using an 'elevator' to stack sheaves of wheat (4.51) End titles (5.00)