Australia - Record Wheat Harvest (1947)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Australian newsreel titles read: ’Nth West NSW - RECORD HARVEST WILL HELP STARVING WORLD’. New South Wales, Australia. Shots of wheat in a field waving in the breeze. L/S pan of a large tract of wheat. M/S of combine harvester at work. C/U as a worker pauses for a drink from a water bottle. M/S of a man sewing up sacks of grain. L/S of a lorry full of grain driving to a depot. Grain is loaded into trucks by means of a conveyor belt. Bags are then returned to the farm. L/S of a stack of bags. M/S of a large silo and grain being dumped into it. C/U of farmer Stan Carberry, standing in a wheat field and answering questions about the crop. He stresses the shortage of bags which is the farmers’ greatest problem. Shots of the harvesters at work. L/S pan of a tract of land full of harvested bundles of corn. M/S of two girls walking through the waist high corn. Various shots of a girl handling corn. L/S pan of a h