Corn Is Ripe - Trailer 1950

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Short trailer film encouraging people to go on working holiday on a Scottish farm.

CU plates on breakfast plates. CU shocked expression on man's face as toast, cake and Scottish oats appear on the plates.

VS of a Scottish farmer sitting on a tractor - he is talking about how good oats...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
47889
Sort Number:
50/042
Time in/Out:
01:14:45:00 / 01:15:41:00
Canister:
50/42
Film ID:
1468.08
Issue Date:
25/05/1950

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