AGRICULTURE:

KEYWORD: AGRICULTURE

We have hundreds of stories about agriculture, most of them very positive and highly entertaining.

Classroom Films made for children about everything from bread and milk production to orange growing and "corn grinding".

Corporate "Documentaries", usually made for specific companies or trade associations, about everything from tea and biscuits to cigarettes and whiskey.

Cinemagazine stories, usually more "light hearted" than the news, covering quirky items like eccentric inventor Roland Emmet's tractor, a two year old helping out with the harvest ("Boy Farmer"), and an item about a farm girl getting a makeover ("Farm Girl Beauty").

Also dozens of stories about farms from all over the world producing mushrooms, lavender, yoghurt, peas, oranges, lemons, watercress, raspberries, trout, hops, oysters, ostrich, tulips, pumpkins, beetroot, daffodils, rubber, asparagus, holly, coffee, tea, grapes, sago, pearls, tomatoes, tobacco, cranberries, and even cactus for chocolate covered sweets, potatoes; take your pick!

More serious news items from around the world covering a huge number of agricultural fairs and shows, ploughing competitions, farmers strikes, diseases, trials, harvests, harvest festivals and harvesting equipment, land girls and government farming propaganda.

We even have items from as late as the 1950s encouraging people to take their holidays on a farm to help out with the harvest during rationing…

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

32/68: "ALL IS SAFELY GATHERED IN" (celebrating the harvest of 1932)
CP 059: "ORANGES & LEMONS" (fruit is tracked from its origins to Covent Garden)
CP 195: "MUSHROOM FARM": (Ex Battle of Britain pilot now manages farm)
EP 004: "LAND STUDENTS IN TRAINING" (20s women train to become horticulturalists)
EP 080: "OPS" (old and new methods of hop picking are contracted in 1920)
EP 092: "THE FLOWER HARVEST IN CORNWALL" (1927)
EP 193: "CITRUS!" (glamour girls picking ranges in 1930)
G 1062: "PLOUGHING MATCH" (1924)
G 1208: "EVERYONE SHALL HAVE ENOUGH PEAS!" (Lady Huntingdon's pea "free-for-all")
39/72: "GIRLS ON THE FARM" (our first glimpse of Land Girls in action)
40/07: "DIG FOR VICTORY!" (Northern Irish farmers do their bit for the war effort)
55/88: "CROP SPRAYING" (irrigation by boat in Hungary)
59/59: "IT'S COOLER BY TRAIN" (peas being picked and loaded onto refrigeration train)
68/23: "HIGH SPEED POTATO PLANTER"