All Time Low

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1674

Date Released

3 Jul 1961

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Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: All Time Low. DESCRIPTION: The common bud worm does a lot of damage to the tobacco crop in New South Wales. The answer to that is to spray from the air, and the pilot makes short work of the pest. He flies so low, that the man marking each new line to be sprayed risks a hair-cut every time! SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS two men inspecting leaves of tobacco crop. MS Two men looking at tobacco leaves. CU leaf with bud worm on it. CU finger pulls worm out of leaf. MS two men standing on plane one climbs in. MS pilot tightens his helmet strap. LS tobacco crop. GV plane spraying tobacco crop. GV plane climbs steeply. CU pilot. GV plane flying low over crops spraying them - man stands by crops guiding plane but has to squat down as plane flies so low. Various shots of same. Good shots of plane flying towards camera spraying crops.

Keywords

Aviation; Agriculture; Insects

Locations

Australia; New South Wales

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

82777A

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner

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