Bmc Presents Potato Harvesting (1962)

Begins with the British Motor Corporation logo (. - BMC). 01:18:16 C/U of a hessian sack full of potatoes. L/S of tractor driving down country road towards camera. Various shot of this, and another tractor driving around a farm. They are Nuffield tractors. Narrator describes how farmers who use this kind of tractor for harvesting potatoes will improve their yield. 01:18:56 Various shots of a plough being attached to the back of the tractor. Various shots of a field being ploughed including a shot from on board the tractor looking at its “wake“. Shots of the field being levelled including high angle shot. Narrator describes how all the various processes are made easier by Nuffield tractor equipment. The cultivator is shown at work. Then footage of harrowing. 01:21:07 Extra tines are attached to the tractor for “marking out“. C/U of the earth being drawn along by the tractor - ridging the ground ready for the potatoes to be planted out. “It is the planting which shows the Nuffield tract