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Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1048

Date Released

4 Jul 1949

Date submitted

23 Jun 1949

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Funeral of Greek Patriot
• 2. South Africa - Fight for Citizenship
• 3. France Trains More Croupiers
• 4. Cripps Defends British Gold at Oeec Conference
• 5. Australia’s Sorghum Harvest
• 6. 1/2 Million Dollars Oil Fire in USA
• 7. The Language of Fans
• 8. Henley Royal Regatta - Fashions and Racing Shocks
• *Midlands’ Royal Tour

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Australia’s Sorghum Harvest. DESCRIPTION: From Australia, we see a grain called Sorghum being reaped, bagged and loaded onto lorries, this is shipped direct to England for cattle fodder. SHOTLIST: KS. GV sorghum fields. GV ditto. Mechanised tractors all ready for work. Mechanised tractors working. Workmen stand on jeep watching for breakdowns. Combine harvester filling bags with sorghum. CU inspection of sorghum, person runs his finger through same. GV tractors in fields in line. CU sorghum growing to finish.

Keywords

Agriculture

Locations

Queensland

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

52157

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

123

Story extras:

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