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- BFI identifier189488
- Date1949-01 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisDOCUMENTARY. RL.1 Opening shots of British people whilst commentary points out that for each sufficiently-fed person, there are seven in the world near starvation. Various crowd scenes are shown whilst commentary gives birth rates in different parts of the world. A world map shows areas where the people have enough to eat. LS of Tanganikan scenery and wasteland the site for a British scheme to produce groundnuts to help combat poverty. Dar es Salaam is used as a port for the scheme but as there are no deep water docks, equipment has to be unloaded from the steamers into landing craft. Tents are pitched on the edge of the bush and engineers arrive on the site. Army tractors and rolling stock are brought to the site but are in bad condition and without spare-parts. Africans are taken on and given technical training. English classes are started for them whilst the engineers learn Swahili. The Africans are soon expert in using machine tools and tractors. A water supply is laid on and poisonous fumes are sprayed onto the bush to kill the mosquito and tsetse fly. Roads are cut through the bush and a branch railway line is constructed. Aircraft already take off and land on the site. Trees are cleared by bulldozers (953 ft). RL.2 Tractors level the site and tree roots are extracted. Rotation of crops is planned to safeguard the fertility of the soil. The ground is tilled and the crops planted. Facilities for European engineers are shown - the bar, the canteen, tennis courts, badminton, English newspapers, nurseries, bungalows, shops and a post office. For the Africans, huts are built, welfare and medical services set up, African newspapers provided, football matches and traditional games on stilts played. The first harvest is gathered in, partly by machine, partly by hand. CUs of the ground-nuts. Shots of sacks of groundnuts passing along a conveyor and being loaded onto a steamer. More new roads and railways are built. Plans are made to extend the scheme. Final scenic shots (1860 ft). (Shotlist)
- Work historyDocumentary short.
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Harvest from the Wilderness (Original)
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United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
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Work - 189488 - 1949-01 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
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