Film Record: Nuts to You

Identifier:

• 3671 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

C.W. Francis

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:08:20

Length:

200 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Australian ACS prizewinner, 1941

Description:

"A documentary about peanut farming in the South Burnett district of Queensland. (EAFA Database)

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

Locations:

• Queensland, New South Wales, Australia (Filming)

Subjects:

• Industries
• Oceania
•      Australia

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

Viewing Notes:

"Tractors in fields preparing the soil, crop spraying to prevent weeds, harvesting (cutting, pulling and 'stooking'), loading stooks on lorries after drying, nuts being separated from bushes in a threshing machine, cleaning the thresher, bags of nuts being loaded on trucks to go to storage silos. Exterior shot of silo - with sign 'Queensland Peanut Growers Co-operative Assn.'" (EAFA Database)

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