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The Great Harvest

Item number (ISN):

323464

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1942-11

Item number (ISN):

323464

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1979-0210

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1942-11

Production company:

Paul Rotha Productions

Sponsor:

Ministry of Information

Description:

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:

English

Notes:

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1. Includes stock footage from the film NEW ACRES and other films.~2. Description based on information from the Imperial War Museum online catalogue.

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Vault ISN:

354093

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7907-0539

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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