Colour: Peat Cutting Machine

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2208A

Date Released

30 Sep 1971

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Russian Spies
2. 2Colour: Dutch Elm Disease
3. 3Colour: Peat Cutting Machine
4. 4Colour: New Wallpaper
5. 5Colour: Mary Quant Designs
6. 6Colour: Oyster Festival
7. 7Colour: Historic Car Race

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Section Title

Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Peat Cutting Machine - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: A new peat digger to satisfy the growing demand by gardeners for peat. SHOTLIST: Ground to air flying over peat fields. GV peat turf cutting machine pan to piles of peat, this machine cuts 5 turfs deep and 1 metre wide. LA shot looking along trench to peat turf, cutting machine. CU blade of machine cutting down and up into turf. SV turf cutting machine. SV same machine stacking turfs. CU ditto pan along pile of turfs. LV the Ruckling machine which re-arranges turfs so that they dry fast. SV this Ruckling machine re-arranging turfs. LV pan along this conveyor belt on turf collector. SV turfs dropping from conveyor belt into large containers pan along container loaded with peat.

Keywords

Agriculture; Science and technology

Locations

Yorkshire

Card file number

97492A

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

102

Story extras:

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