Farmers’ Films

Synopsis: A programme of six short films mostly from the 1950s, shot by farmers on their own farms and previously released by the East Anglian Film Archive. Most of the farms were large for their day, employing 20 or more men who still worked with the horses that were giving way to a wide assortment of tractors, early combines and other harvesters.
Commentaries by the farmers or their relatives vary in content, two of them being very precise about the details of the equipment shown. The locations of the farms are in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. The emphasis is on field operations.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2003
Year of production: 1950-1959
Subjects: Agriculture
Keywords: agricultural history

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Notes: DVDs and books for enthusiasts in the land-based industries: farmers and smallholders, workers in the earthmoving, forestry and heavy transport occupations. Titles deal with current activities and machinery as well as the history of the industries.

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