Archive footage

Brian Bell’s 'Classic' series of DVDs uses archive footage to show the history of farm tractors and machinery. Development work from the 1950s is shown in the NIAE archive programmes. There are also films from the National Library of Scotland as well as Anglia Television's 'Bygones' specials and farmers’ films.


Acres of Change (DVD) - Technical Adviser Brian Bell

Acres of Change (DVD) - Technical Adviser Brian Bell Ref: 804D
In 1939 Kent farmer Frederick Hynard recorded a year in the life of his farm on cine film... 

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Bedford - you saw them everywhere (DVD)

Bedford - you saw them everywhere (DVD) Ref: 819D
The DVD comprises six promotional films dating from 1953 to 1973 that feature various tupes of Bedford lorry and the uses to which they were put. Especially memorable are 'Highway Assignment', shot during the building of the M1 ... 

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Bygones: The Harvest (DVD) - Dick Joice

Bygones: The Harvest (DVD) - Dick Joice Ref: 829D
The harvest has always been the climax of the farming year. When this programme was first made, men in their eighties and nineties were able to recall harvests from before the First World War... 

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Bygones: The Horsemen (DVD) - Dick Joice

Bygones: The Horsemen (DVD) - Dick Joice Ref: 830D
At the turn of the century the work of the farm revolved around the farm horse. In 1975 the Anglia Bygones team, led by Dick Joice, filmed some remarkable men in their eighties and nineties who had worked with farm horses from before the First World War... 

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Bygones: Gone to Burton (DVD) - Dick Joice

Bygones: Gone to Burton (DVD) - Dick Joice Ref: 860D
Filmed and televised in 1974, this is the third of the ‘Bygones’ special features that re-created the experiences of East Anglian farm workers before the First World War... 

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Bygones : 3 DVD set offer (DVD) Bygones : 3 DVD set offer (DVD) Ref: 906S
Special Offer: al three Bygones DVDs for £39.95 
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Classic Combines/ Farm Machinery 1 & 2/ Tractors -  4 DVD set offer (DVD) Classic Combines/ Farm Machinery 1 & 2/ Tractors - 4 DVD set offer (DVD) Ref: 904S
Special Offer: all four Bell 'Classic' DVDs for £54.95 
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Farmers' Films (DVD) - East Anglian Film Archive

Farmers' Films (DVD) - East Anglian Film Archive Ref: 806D
A programme of six short films, mostly from the 1950s, shot by farmers on their own farms. The East Anglian Film Archive invited the farmers or their relatives to give a commentary on each film in the 1990s... 

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Farm Machinery Film Records: Autumn work and rootcrops (DVD) - Brian Bell

Farm Machinery Film Records: Autumn work and rootcrops (DVD) - Brian Bell Ref: 874D
This programme uses extracts from a collection of silent films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. Some of the films record machinery working in the field, others show experimental farm machines. They include manure spreaders, hedgers, ploughs, potato spinners, potato and root harvesters . 

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Farm Machinery Film Records: Harvest (DVD) - Brian Bell

Farm Machinery Film Records: Harvest (DVD) - Brian Bell Ref: 873D
More extracts from a collection of silent films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. They cover the grain crop, grass and silage. The machines include those that went successfully into production as well as rarities whose development was curtailed. 

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Farm Machinery Film Records: 3 DVD set offer (DVD) Farm Machinery Film Records: 3 DVD set offer (DVD) Ref: 909S
Special offer: the three Farm Machinery Film Records DVDs for £44.95 
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Farm Machinery Film Records: Part 3 Testing & prototypes (DVD): Brian Bell

Farm Machinery Film Records: Part 3 Testing & prototypes (DVD): Brian Bell Ref: 205D
This programme uses extracts from a collection of films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. The Institute had been established by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1942 with a remit to design prototype farm equipment and publish test reports of the performance of production tractors and farm machinery.  

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Operation Harvest (DVD) - Richard Watts

Operation Harvest (DVD) - Richard Watts Ref: 850D
This is the story of the Second World War effort on the land, told through archive and contemporary film... 

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Yesterday’s Farm - East Anglia and beyond (DVD) - New Classics

Yesterday’s Farm - East Anglia and beyond (DVD) - New Classics Ref: not-available
Now called Feeding the Nation
 

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