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There are many films in the Wessex Film and Sound Archive collection which depict the rural areas of Southern England in the counties of Hampshire, Dorset and Berkshire. Many of these films illustrate changing farming practices and agricultural life in the region. One very good example of rural films, focusing on agriculture, to be found in the Wessex Film and Sound Archive collection is 'Seed Time and Harvest', a short amateur film made in 1937. The film was made by Eric Ashby who later went on to become a well known camera man for the BBC Natural History Unit. The film depicts the workings of a farm completely untouched by technological developments showing horse harrowing, hand sowing of seeds, and the harvesting of corn by scythe. The traditional methods shown in the film contrast with the majority of other films of agricultural subjects in the collection which show some of the influence of mechanised developments. See also 'Scenes from Village Life' from the Wessex Film and Sound Archive which illustrates aspects of village life in the region in 1948. |
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