Farm Machinery Film Records: Autumn Work & Rootcrops

Synopsis: This programme use extracts from a collection of films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. Some of the films record machinery working in the field, others show experimental farm machines designed by the NIAE. The machines include those that went successfully into production as well as rarities whose development was curtailed. The original footage is silent, but Brian Bell has researched the footage to provide an informative commentary narrated by Chris Opperman.
It includes over 30 films covering manure loaders and spreaders; small tractors and cultivators; potato planters, spinners and harvesters; sugar beet gappers, toppers and harvesters.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 1945-1955
Subjects: Agriculture; Engineering
Keywords: agricultural equipment; archive films; industrial archaeology; agricultural history

Name: National Institute of Agricultural Engineering
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Address: The Bullock Building (Bldg 53) University Way
Cranfield, Bedford
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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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