Around the World with Movietone: Australian Harvest

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

453A

Date Released

10 Feb 1938

Date submitted

1 Feb 1938

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Around the World with Movietone: London’s New Sky-Scraper
2. 2Around the World with Movietone: Stage Tribute to Irving
3. 3Around the World with Movietone: Norfolk House Auction
4. 4Around the World with Movietone: Plane with Single-Blade Propeller
5. 5Around the World with Movietone: Meet the Composite Plane Pilots
6. 6Around the World with Movietone: Princess Royal at Ray Institute
7. 7Around the World with Movietone: The Duke and Duchess of Kent Go Skiing
8. 8Around the World with Movietone: Holland Still Very Excited
9. 9Around the World with Movietone: Stalin Votes in Russian Election
10. 10Around the World with Movietone: Desert Manoeuvres in Egypt
11. 11Around the World with Movietone: Lady Baden Powell in Nairobi
12. 12Around the World with Movietone: Volunteers Drill in Hong Kong
13. 13Around the World with Movietone: Princess Baba in New York
14. 14Around the World with Movietone: Birthday Cake for President Roosevelt
15. 15Around the World with Movietone: Australian Harvest
16. 16Around the World with Movietone: Surf Skiing in New South Wales

Story

Story No. within this Issue

15 / 16

Section Title

Around the World with Movietone

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wheat Harvest. DESCRIPTION: Mechanisation helps with wheat harvest. SHOTLIST: Australia’s vast wheat fields now use high-powered machines to do the work that once the horse did. Machines that handle from 30 to 50 acres a day, anything up to 600 bags of wheat. The bags are loaded on lorries, and off goes the wheat to the railway siding. Close shots of the machinery and bags being filled. Also shot of large cultivated field. Included in above.

Keywords

Vehicles; Agriculture

Footage sources

Sydney

Card file number

32455

Credits:

Commentator

Alan Howland

Commentator

Carl Bernard

Commentator

Ivan Scott

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

33

Story extras:

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