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Title: HARVESTS OF THE SOIL

Reference number: 0652

Date: 1937

Director: d. John C. Elder

Production company: GB Instructional

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10 mins

Description: A look at the harvesting of different crops, including early potatoes, tomatoes and other fruits.

Part I of AGRICULTURAL SCOTLAND. See ref. 2172 GRAIN HARVEST for Part 2.

For review of film see Scottish Educational Film Review Volume 1, Review No. 94.

Credits: The GBI Geography of Scotland
Made in collaboration with a panel of Scottish teachers.
ph. J Blake Dalrymple.
Distributed by G B Equipments Ltd
Recorded on British Accoustic Film

Shotlist: Credits (.15) Map showing regions of Scotland (.55) Graph showing the relative productions of hay, oats, turnips, potatoes, wheat and barley (1.19) Field is ploughed by man with plough and three shire horses (1.44) Haymaking. Shots of hay being cut by horse-drawn equipment, gathered by other horse-drawn apparatus, and stacked by men (3.25) A large portable "crane" is used to load whole stacks onto carts and take them to the barn (4.41) Another stack is loaded by conveyor belt mechanism and taken to be added to the larger haystacks already gathered (6.05) Early potatoes. Shots of potatoes being harvested by hand and packed into barrels by the pickers (7.12) Fruit. Fruit trees are harvested, the produce weighed and packed into barrels (8.28) Tomatoes. Shots of extensive greenhouses, man operating temperature controls, shots of man in boiler room (9.03) Tomatoes in greenhouse are harvested and packed into wooden boxes (9.42) ecs (9.59)