Learning on ScreenTree Puller
Series
- Series Name
- London Line
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The biggest problem of clearing forest area for agricultural use is the removal of the stumps and roots of the trees. These can be blasted out with high explosives but the work is dangerous and not always successful. Now a new machine has been developed that overcomes the problem by simply plucking the tree - roots and all - out of the ground.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes an interview with the machine’s inventor, Dr Brien Wills, a lecturer at Newcastle University.
- Local distribution only
- New Commonwealth version
- Keywords
- Agriculture; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1257/361
- Credits:
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- Sound
- Bert Power
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Camera
- Dick Ewen
- Presenter
- Elizabeth Adare
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Producer
- Graham Woodford
- Director
- Nick Hague
- Cutter
- Peter Day
- Support services
- Renee Serlin
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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