News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

625

Date Released

25 May 1933

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Tricks of the Trade
• 2. With Eve on the Broads
• 3. A Harvest Contrast
• 4. Radium!
• 5. All Together
• 6. Eve Cricketer
• 7. Back to the Days of old

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Summary

NoS Summary - Old and new methods of harvesting crops are contrasted in Canada
British Pathe synopsis: "The big harvester, getting in the crops of the great North West, is a well-known figure on the Canadian Landscape - " Low angle shot of a field of barley or wheat. M/S of a combine harvester moving towards, then passing the camera. Various shots of the crop being harvested. C/U of the cutting tool. M/S of man sewing shut a sack of grain on the back of the harvester. The sack is then placed on a chute at the side of the machine. It falls down onto the ground as the harvester moves along. "But, there still remain farmers reluctant to desert old friend Dobbin...no matter how big the job is...as in this unique picture." M/S of a horse drawn harvester moving towards the camera. M/S of the backs of the horses from on top of the harvester - there are a lot of horses, about twenty pulling the one harvester.

Keywords

Agriculture

Locations

Canada

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.261
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP261
National Film Archive Catalogue

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