Summary: The continuation, in the second year of the war, of the campaign to expand Britain's agricultural acreage.
Description: Examples are shown from different parts of East Anglia and Sussex, a tractor engineer providing the continuity: in Norfolk, virgin heath is being ploughed up. In East Sussex the War Agricultural Committee has put unused housing plots under cultivation - another Sussex farm provides examples for measured spreading of lime and fertiliser in correct proportions. 'Carl', one of a group of pioneers at work clearing land, asks why England's land has not been fully used before, and the reclamation of a derelict Fenland farm is cited to show the size of effort and organisation needed. A tour of the East Sussex workshop, and the sight of work getting under way (tractors moving off, troops arriving etc) in the morning show that sufficient effort is now being applied - film ends by regretting that a war was necessary to produce it.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:UKY 325
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1941-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Ministry of Agriculture (Production sponsor)
Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Shell (Production company)
Anstey, Edgar (Production individual)
Baxter, R K Neilson (Production individual)
Rodwell, Stanley (Production individual)
Bland, William S (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: administration, British - civilian: War Agricultural Committee (object name)
agriculture, British - arable (object name)
engineering, civil, British: land reclamation (object name)
society, British - precautionary (object name)
transport, British civilian - agricultural: tractor (object name)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 747 ft; Running time: 8 mins
