SPRING OFFENSIVE [Main Title]

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  • Title: SPRING OFFENSIVE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UKY 221
  • Other titles: UNRECORDED VICTORY [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: 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.
  • 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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-10
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) GPO Film Unit (Production company) Jennings, Humphrey (Production individual) Cavalcanti, Alberto (Production individual) Alward, Lee (Production individual) Carrick, Edward (Production individual) Cross, Eric (Production individual) Fowle, H E (Production individual) Foot, Geoff (Production individual) Cameron, Ken (Production individual) Easdale, Brian (Production individual) Mathieson, Muir (Production individual) Gray, Hugh (Production individual) Street, A G (Production cast)
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  • Keywords: administration, British - civilian: County Committees (object name) agriculture, British - arable (object name) transport, British civilian - agricultural: traction engine (object name) transport, British civilian - agricultural: tractor (object name) Suffolk, England, UK (geography) propaganda (concept)
  • 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: 2 Footage: 1792 ft; Running time: 21 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Remarks: some dialect difficulties. Documentation/associated material: COI file - shotlist, music cue sheet
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    UKY 221

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