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A New Invention. A Potato Planter That Saves Time and Money

Date released

20 May 1918

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

747

NoS ID

077165

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

2 farmhands demonstrate potato planter with twin seats. Drawn by a horse.

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Ferguson on the Farm, Part 3

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £15.95

In this video, set at Great Shortridge farm, we see Harold Beer demonstrate implements from the later Ferguson era as well as machines from the early Massey Ferguson range. We join him in the spring as he...

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Robot Planter

Date released

24 Aug 1939

Series name

New Series Pictorial

Issue no

178

NoS ID

116388

Story no

2 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

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Speedy Spuds

Date released

18 Mar 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2024

NoS ID

027299

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Speedy Spuds. DESCRIPTION: Claimed to be the fastest automatic potato planter on the market, a two acres an hour machine is demonstrated in Kent. SHOTLIST: LS trays of potatoes being...

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Rescue Scenes off the Nantucket When Canadian "Planter" and "City of Auckland" Collide in Fog

Date released

18 May 1936

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

249

NoS ID

054614

Story no

2 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Changing Face of Farming

Date released

8 Nov 1965

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1901

NoS ID

026213

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Changing Face of Farming. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show the National Ploughing Contest at Birkenhead. Also a new device to be attached to a tractor used for sowing seed crops without...

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Spring Potato Show

Date released

3 Jul 1977

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2509

NoS ID

031006

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Spring Potato - Irish Reel. DESCRIPTION: Everything concerned with the planting, cultivating and nurturing of the Potato was on show at the Spring Potato Show at Kenilworth in...

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Potato Planter

Date released

17 Mar 1968

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

68/23

NoS ID

113005

Story no

3 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

The back-breaking business of planting potatoes has had a lot of the creak taken out of it in recent years by machines. But a new mechanised spud sinker does the job in a fraction of the time and with far...

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Shakespeare re-visits Stratford-on-Avon -

Date released

5 Jan 1922

Series name

Around The Town

Issue no

110

NoS ID

330020

Story no

1 / 6

Summary - the "Will Shakespeare" company visiting Stratford-upon-Avon. NoS synopsis: ‘Shakespeare re-visits Stratford-on-Avon-' intertitle with a cartoon of Shakespeare on the right hand side and a car on...

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Telegraph Pole Planter

Date released

19 Aug 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

556

NoS ID

121679

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Hours of back-breaking spade-work have been saved by a Post Office machine which plants telegraph poles with push-button ease. Only two men are needed to operate the corkscrew drill, which...

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