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- Subject
- Agriculture; Anthropology
- Distribution
- Film (16mm)
In Afghanistan the people and their labour are bound to the land in the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or sub-titles, the film conveys a sense of unity...
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- Subject
- Agriculture; History
- Distribution
- Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 27 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)
The farming year filmed in Suffolk in the 1930s including ploughing, threshing, sugarbeet lifting, bush drainage, broadcast sowing, drilling, haysel, sheep shearing and harvest. Also shows village life,...
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- Director
- U Ramseyer
- Subject
- Agriculture; Anthropology
- Distribution
- Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min., 1995 sale: DM140 (+p&p)
On Bali, rice cultivation is an integral part of daily life with many material as well as religious aspects. The film shows both the technology of rice growing (irrigation, terrace construction, ploughing,...
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- Subject
- Agriculture
- Distribution
- Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)
Step-by-step horticulural techniques for the amateur gardener, including seed sowing, taking cuttings, division, layering, budding and grafting, chipping and scaling. Includes advice on choice of equipment...
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- Subject
- Agriculture
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, unknown), £16.95
Video filmed at a number of different farms showing the cyclical nature of agriculture as crops are sown, cared for and finally harvested before sowing begins once again. Includes footage of tractors,...
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- Subject
- Agriculture; Development studies
- Distribution
- Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £30.00
Programme examining the benefits and drawbacks of using genetically modified crops in the developing world. India’s farmers have been attracted by claims of higher yields, while Zambia refused desperately...
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- Subject
- Agriculture
- Distribution
- Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99
Four wartime farming films showing the four seasons in 1941 and 1942. The first part shows winter on Upton Manor Farm, Uploders, Dorset. The second part shows spring sowing and rolling on a farm at...
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- Subject
- Agriculture
- Distribution
- Sale, VHS (180 minutes), £19.95
Paul Heiney looks at the Victorian age of farming, period machinery and traditional livestock breeds. He follows three crops - oats, potatoes and grass, from sowing to harvest, re-creating the days of...
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- Subject
- Agriculture; History
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.00
This DVD deals with the flax industry in Ulster in the 1940s and 1950s. It looks at the complete year of flax production, including sowing, pulling, dam retting, stooking, scutching, beetling, spinning and...
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- Director
- Ivo Strecker
- Subject
- Anthropology
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00
In the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the...