To Save The Harvest (1941)

Unused / unissued material - location and dates unclear or unknown. VS of a demonstration on fighting a grassland or cornfield fire. People examine various types of fire beaters. The story shows an incendiary bomb being dropped by an ’enemy’ plane near a harvesting site. A Land girl on fire watch duty gives the signal and the harvesters go into action with beaters and water chains. The local AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) engine is quickly on the scene and by using water from an overgrown ditch quickly have the fire under control. The girls from the Women’s Land Army (WLA) and the firemen give a cheer as they gather together having put out the fire. (Lav.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than