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The Great Harvest
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1942-11Item number (ISN):323464Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMSAccession:1979-0210Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1942-11Production company:Paul Rotha ProductionsSponsor:Ministry of InformationDescription:This film is about the British harvest of 1942 and the efforts made by British agriculture since 1939 to increase food production. Subjects include: the importance of getting more land into agricultural production; the Country War Agricultural Committee; demonstrations and seminars to teach new methods of farming; improving soil through scientific analysis; increasing the amount of mechanization through cooperation and sharing machinery; fields of grain in 1942; Land Girls harvesting; problems caused by the labour shortage; children, townspeople and soldiers helping out on farms, including U.S. soldiers; a children's camp; manual and mechanical harvesting; rick-building; ploughing; harrowing; cornfields; stacks; ricks; a Caterpillar tractor; seed drills and spreading fertilizer. <7mn>Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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