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Title: GRAIN HARVEST

Reference number: 2172

Date: 1936

Director: d. John C. Elder

Sponsor: Gaumont-British Instructional

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.41 mins

Description: Part Two of the series "Agricultural Scotland", this film shows a field of oats being scythed to clear a path for the horse-drawn reaping and binding machines, and the threshing machine at work in the farmyard.

Part 2 of AGRICULTURAL SCOTLAND. See also ref. 0652 HARVESTS OF THE SOIL for Part 1.

See teaching notes and Scottish Educational Film Review No. 34.

Credits: The Caledonia series.
ph. J. Blake Dalrymple
British Acoustic Sound

Shotlist: Credits (0.38) maps of Scotland; Richest Agricultural Districts; Oat Growing Districts (1.14) man scything in oat field to clear a road for reaping and binding machine; Oats set up in stooks to dry; sheaves are taken to the stackyard (3.20) Wheat map of wheat areas (3.49) two horse-drawn teams pulling reaping machines (4.48) Barley map of barley growing areas; Horse-drawn reaping and binding machine, followed by labourer who lifts fallen stalks ready for the next run (6.02) threshing machine in farmyard. Traction engine powering thresher. Sacks of grain weighed (7.29) straw piled into stacks for fodder (7.36) ecs (7.41)