Around the World with Movietone: Australian Harvest
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 15 / 16
- Section Title
- Around the World with Movietone
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wheat Harvest. DESCRIPTION: Mechanisation helps with wheat harvest. SHOTLIST: Australia’s vast wheat fields now use high-powered machines to do the work that once the horse did. Machines that handle from 30 to 50 acres a day, anything up to 600 bags of wheat. The bags are loaded on lorries, and off goes the wheat to the railway siding. Close shots of the machinery and bags being filled. Also shot of large cultivated field. Included in above.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Agriculture
- Footage sources
- Sydney
- Card file number
- 32455
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Alan Howland
- Commentator
- Carl Bernard
- Commentator
- Ivan Scott
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 33
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How to cite this record
'Around the World with Movietone: Australian Harvest', British Movietone News Issue No. 453A, 10 Feb 1938. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/8503 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)