Titles tagged with ‘harvesting’
6 titles - sorted by title / by year
An Australian Invention: Falkiner Cane Harvester in Operation (c1925)
This promotional documentary for the mechanical Falkiner Cane Harvester incorporates animated sketches, intertitles and live-action examples to demonstrate how the harvester operates in the cane fields of Bundaberg, ...
Bushells Blue Label Tea: Bushells Tea Factory (c1925)
This Bushells Tea cinema advertisement from approximately 1925 shows the process of producing tea from the harvesting to end use. It shows picking the leaves, transporting the tea ...
Holmes, Mr WGA: Home Movies: Locals Cool Off at the Weir, Theodore (c1940)
This home movie filmed by WGA Holmes contains 17 segments filmed between 1940 and 1953 mostly in and around Theodore, Queensland. It includes footage of people bathing at ...
A Nation is Built (1938)
This sprawling and patriotic documentary uses actuality footage, historical re-enactments, fictionalised scenes and propaganda to chronicle Australia’s development and progress as a nation. It was sponsored by the ...
South Sea Islanders Cutting Cane, 1899: Nambour, Qld (1899)
This clip of actuality footage taken in 1899, is one of the few pieces of film footage of Melanesian labourers cutting cane in Queensland. The workers stack the ...
Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder at Jimbour, Qld (1899)
This actuality footage shows a horse-drawn Buckeye brand reaper and binder harvesting a wheat crop while labourers stack the wheat sheaves.
