Four Seasons: Apple Picker
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 7
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Each season of the year imposes its own problems for the farmer. He must know when it’s best to plant, plough, harvest or nourish his land - and be ever alert in his battle with invading insects. Now, science and technology have joined in his eternal conflict with the four seasons. The traditional apple picker, and the best - a human being, is now too expensive. Science has the answer. First design a tree for a machine, with apples growing in the right places. Then the machine, with soft, rubber-coated "fingers" which comb the tree - like a gentle human hand.
- Researcher Comments
- First shown in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 251’
- Keywords
- Agriculture; Horticulture; Science and technology; Engineering; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/302
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- R.I. Phillips
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- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Four Seasons: Apple Picker', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 302. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/352425 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)