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  1. News Flashes - Stop Press: Grass Verge Crops

    Date released
    16 Feb 1948
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1770
    NoS ID
    040922
    Story no
    2 / 6

    Britain’s arterial roads will soon be flanked with crops of barley, if experimental sowing on grass verges is a success.

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  2. The Answer’s Know

    Date released
    Jun 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    71
    NoS ID
    349173
    Story no
    3 / 5

    NoS synopsis: A new way of sowing lawns in which seeds are implanted in sheets of vegetable material and covered with mould, thus defying the birds, until the sheets decompose and the grass shoots up.

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  3. Film News Items: Mrs America

    Date released
    15 Sep 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1215
    NoS ID
    018056
    Story no
    5 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mrs America. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Women washing, cooking, sowing. Husbands cheering section. Legs into camera. Lovelies parade. Winner on hearing verdict faints. Husband kisses her...

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  4. Orchid Nursery

    Date released
    26 Oct 1967
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    670
    NoS ID
    121932
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: ... an orchid must be a painter’s dream. And at Haywards Heath, Sussex, they grow them by the thousand. Forget the fallacies. Orchids are no more difficult to grow than chrysanthemums, but...

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  5. To Plough to Sow (1987 Video)

    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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  6. Leslie Mitchell Conducts the News Pageant of Movietone. Sports Reported by Alan Howland: Bicycle Oddities

    Date released
    6 Jul 1939
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    526A
    NoS ID
    010050
    Story no
    4 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Freak Bicycles. DESCRIPTION: Crazy ‘bikes’ on show in Chicago. SHOTLIST: A demonstration of strange bikes. A family bike with mother using her sowing machine as it goes along, the...

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  7. The Soviet: Toll Will Be Exacted for German Horrors

    Date released
    15 Jul 1943
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    43/56
    NoS ID
    100030
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    The beginning of Spring with the melting of the snow reveals bodies of Germans and Russians killed in the fighting. Around Vyazma and in the town itself are seen the results of the German occupation. Bodies...

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  8. Nini Pantun: Rice Cultivation and Rituals in Bali (1988 Video)

    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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  9. Scottish Re-Afforestation Scheme

    Date released
    18 May 1950
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1093A
    NoS ID
    016412

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Scottish Re-Afforestation. DESCRIPTION: The Forestry Commission is working at Calvin to reclaim land and plant it with young Corsican pine trees. SHOTLIST: GV. Row of men preparing...

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  10. Leslie Mitchell Reviews the News Pageant of Movietone with Contributions by Alan Howland (on Sport) & Ivan Scott (on Aviation): Rice Sowing in California

    Date released
    23 May 1938
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    468
    NoS ID
    008822
    Story no
    4 / 13

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Planting Rice by Air. SHOTLIST: Rice seeds are sown in the flooded fields by means of an aeroplane flying low and depositing the seeds.

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