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Title: BETTER HAY

Reference number: 2023

Date: 1964

Director: p. James Eddlestone

Sponsor: South of Scotland Electricity Board

Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.48 mins

Description: An electric barn hay drier in operation at Auchencruive Agricultural College, Ayrshire.

Film about the Auchencruive Barn Hay Drier.

Credits: pres. South of Scotland Electricity Board
agric. adv. R.M.T. Wilson.

Shotlist: ROLL A

Blank (.12); shots of a field of grass and tractor (.44); shots of signpost of agricultural; college, panning over to college itself (1.36); shot of a barn (1.41); blank (1.43); shots of a hay-barn (2.04); shots of a hay-drier (2.55); blank (3.03); shots of a field of grass and tractor cutting it (4.18); shots of a tractor emptying grass out (3.02); blank (5.04); shots of a man experimenting with the grass (6.13); blank (6.23); shots of hay-making machine (7.06); shots of men loading bales of hay onto tractor (7.13); shot of a loaded tractor going back to the farm (7.40); blank (10.30); shots of the barn on a rainy day (10.57); blank (12.45); more shots of the barn on a rainy day (17.57); blank (13.06);

ROLL B

Credits (.29); blank (1.20); shot of a leaflet about Barn Hay Drying at Auchincruive (1.23); shots of a barn (1.28); blank (2.39); shots of pictures inside the leaflets (2.51); blank (4.46); more shots of pictures in the leaflet (4.52); blank (5.57); more shots of pictures inside the leaflet (6.10); blank (7.25); shots of a tractor with bales of hay being unloaded into the barn (8.51); shots of men using the barn hay drier (10.16); blank (10.42); shots of hay-barn and hay being loaded onto the tractor (11.45); shots of green bale of hay and dried bales of hay - the scientist compares them (12.31); blank (12.35); credits (12.42).