24 Square Miles and Harting - An English Village

Synopsis: Two films from the 1940s depicting rural life in Oxfordshire and Sussex at the time.
Series: 40’s Britain
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2005
Year of production: 1946
Subjects: Social Studies; Geography; History
Keywords: agricultural economics; rural communities; rural development; social history; village life

Title: 24 Square Miles
Synopsis: Based on a 1943 study by the Agricultural Economics Research Institute at Oxford, this film surveys a rural area of 24 square miles, including the market town of Banbury. It analyses in detail the assets and present and future needs of the area, and how services and facilities might be developed. With indications of the planning problems involved, it illustrates communications, population figures, trade and industry, agriculture, housing, social life, public administration, schools and health services. Made as an exercise to quantify the use of the countryside. Commentary spoken by John Arlott. Made by Basic Films in 1946.
Duration: 41 mins
Title: Harting - an English Village
Synopsis: Harting, a picturesque village on the Sussex Downs, typifies the traditional pattern of an English village as a neigbourly community in which people live, work, and enjoy their leisure together. Various members of the community apear in the course of their daily work and in the various active roles played by them in village affairs.
Duration: 21 mins

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