The Battle of Britain

SPRING OFFENSIVE [Main Title]

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Catalogue number
  • UKY 221
Production date
1940-10
Place made
GB
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Object description

A Suffolk example shows how the Government used County Committees to coordinate farmers, and to organise the ploughing of maximum acreage to ease the wartime food situation.

Full description

Help is offered to farmers in difficulties and waste land is taken over (The speed of this effort - 3 months in 1939-40 to accomplish what took 3 years in 1914-18 - is emphasised.) A fairly sophisticated script includes a subplot about an evacuee, and a moral - regret that Britain needs wars to generate benevolent policies towards agriculture. The film gives good coverage of the activities of a farmer's year, using both horse and tractor-drawn equipment, and some unusual machinery (eg a traction engine operating a mole-drain, and mechanised land-clearing by gyro tiller). Some footage on Land Army girls.

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35mm

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