Four Seasons: Electric Rain

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

302

Length of issue (in feet)

983

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Four Seasons: Underground Landscape
2. 2Four Seasons: Seed Soak Test
3. 3Four Seasons: High-Speed Seeds
4. 4Four Seasons: Electric Rain
5. 5Four Seasons: Apple Picker
6. 6Four Seasons: Potato Grader
7. 7Four Seasons: Slurry Slider

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 7

Summary

COI synopsis: Each season of the year imposes its own problems for the farmer. He must know when it’s best to plant, plough, harvest or nourish his land - and be ever alert in his battle with invading insects. Now, science and technology have joined in his eternal conflict with the four seasons. Airborne crop sprays are renowned for being indiscriminate. But, given an electrostatic charge, it breaks up into a very fine spray - a new electric rain which positively leaps towards its target.

Researcher Comments

First shown in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 211’

Keywords

Agriculture; Horticulture; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/302

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

R.I. Phillips

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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