Schoolboys Own Farm

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1746

Date Released

19 Nov 1962

Date submitted

5 Nov 1962

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Schoolboy Farmers. DESCRIPTION: Boys at Harrow Public School are taking part in a rather enterprising out of school activity, they’re lending a hand with running the school’s own farm. Under the eye of the farm manager, they learn to tackle a host of farmyard jobs in addition to ordinary lessons. All told, about 200 volunteers, working on a rota system, spend their spare time on the farm. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS SCHOOLBOYS from Harrow. MS same walk into field. CU teacher. MS boys grouped around a tractor. MCU teacher explaining tractor workings. CU students looking on MS (2 shots) student driving tractor. MS (3 shots) student moves hay by means of tractor. CU (2 shots) students lifting hay. MS herding cattle. CU student (2 shots) preparations for milking cow. CU student. CU milk container. MS feeding time for pigs (2 shots) feeding pigs. MS group of students.

Keywords

Education and training; Agriculture; Youth

Locations

Harrow; Middlesex

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

85478

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

116

Story extras:

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