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  1. Tower Revives the Custom of Beating Bounds

    Date released
    10 May 1948
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1794
    NoS ID
    041042
    Story no
    7 / 7

    Centuries old ceremony crops up again after wartime interval in ancient London parish.

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  2. The Fete of "The Bridge of the Nile"

    Date released
    9 Sep 1926
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1327; Super Issue No.: 26/72
    NoS ID
    085365
    Story no
    4 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Cannon salutes now replace the ceremony of annual sacrifice of a virgin, the ancients practised to assure abundant rain and good crops.

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  3. Crops for Fees

    Date released
    27 Jan 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    200
    NoS ID
    032462
    Story no
    4 / 6

    Pigs or potatoes. With money so scarce, Bloomington University trades degree courses for farm produce.

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  4. All Time Low

    Date released
    3 Jul 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1674
    NoS ID
    024170
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: All Time Low. DESCRIPTION: The common bud worm does a lot of damage to the tobacco crop in New South Wales. The answer to that is to spray from the air, and the pilot makes short work...

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  5. Helicopter Blitzes Farm Pests

    Date released
    8 Jul 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1602
    NoS ID
    040109
    Story no
    1 / 4

    Spraying DDT from air on crops is latest American method of defeating insect plague.

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  6. Colorado Scourge Sweeps Holland

    Date released
    28 Jun 1948
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    48/52
    NoS ID
    102430
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Colorado beetles swept up on beaches threaten Dutch crops.

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  7. The Fete of the Bride of the Nile

    Date released
    18 Dec 1930
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    30/58
    NoS ID
    088838
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Cannon salutes now replace the ceremony of annual sacrifice of a virgin which the ancients practised to assure rain and good crops.

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  8. Million Ducks Have Christmas Dinner

    Date released
    25 Dec 1947
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1755
    NoS ID
    040852
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Enormous flocks of wild duck from Canada invade Louisiana rice fields where crops was ruined by autumn hurricane.

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  9. RICE GROWERS OFFER UNIQUE PRAYERS FOR BIGGER CROPS

    Date released
    9 Sep 1926
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1614
    NoS ID
    387662
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: Farmers enlist aid of prettiest dancers in plea to gods. Sumiyoshi, Japan.

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  10. Locusts Swoop on Canary Islands

    Date released
    4 Nov 1954
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2471
    NoS ID
    045371
    Story no
    9 / 9

    From north west Africa millions of locusts descend on Canary Islands and wreck most of crops.

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