Lend A Hand On The Land - Potato Digging (1946)

Ministry of Information public information trailer - Lend a hand on the land - potato digging. Location of events unknown. MS man eating chips. The film starts to run backwards and we trace the journey of the potatoes back to the fields. MS plough bringing up the potatoes. MS people picking them. Title - ’Lend a hand on the land’. Cataloguer’s note: item was originally part of Gazette issue 46/68. FILM ID:2917.3 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 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British
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