Harvest from a Wilderness

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1785A

Date Released

22 Aug 1963

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Harvest From a Wilderness. DESCRIPTION: Thanks to the great Ord River Project the rugged dry wasteland beneath the Kymberley Mountains of Westland Australia is fast becoming irrigated and fertile. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the mountains and wastelands. Aerials of same. GV River Ord. Various shots of dam being built across river. MS bulldozers at work. Digging channel. Man switches on pumps. Aerial of river. GV waterwheels. MS man placing syphon tubes. GV town of Kununurra. MS house. Pan police station to buildings. CU policeman picking fruit. Plane flying low over the cotton fields. Dusting. CU man inspecting cotton. Cotton picking machine in action. Various shots of machine and truck being loaded with cotton. Children watching. GV cultivated land.

Keywords

Environment; Agriculture; Engineering

Locations

Australia; Kymberley

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

86988

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

213

Story extras:

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