Metadata
- Title: FRONT-LINE HARVEST [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: A70 110-4
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- Summary: British troops help French farm-workers harvest wheat in a field between Lantheuil and Pierrepoint in a part of the Normandy beach-head left untouched by the fighting.
- Description: Off-duty 1st Corps troops help a colourfully-dressed farm girl stock sheaves of wheat. A healthy-looking teenage boy operates a horse-drawn harvester and, while doing so, drags away a length of barbed-wire laid by the Germans in order to obstruct landings by Allied airborne troops; the presence of a nearby airstrip from which RAF Typhoon fighter-bombers from No. 83 Group are seen flying off on their missions detracts somewhat from this otherwise peaceful scene.
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944-08-02
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Collins (Sergeant) (Production individual)
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- Keywords: agriculture, French - arable: harvest (object name) Normandy, France (geography)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 152 ft; Running time: 1 min
- Notes: Note: Refer to A70 71-10, 72-10, 78-6, 98-3 and 4 and 120-16 for material relating to the fate of Normandy's beleaguered agricultural community during the campaign. Remarks: Good footage, in which the healthy invigorating character of the farming life is seen personified in the well- formed youth who appears here. Documentation/associated material: for details of the location of forward airstrips in 21st Army Group's sector of the Normandy beach-head, read 2nd Army HQ's 'An Account of the Operations of 2nd Army in Europe 1944-1945 : Volume 1'.
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