STK-ID 34093

Various shots of combines, windrow-picking attachment heading for and away from camera, moving speedily across field to secondary road, moving in single file on road. CUs of drivers, of grain pouring from spout onto pile in truck, of auger and platform as windrows disappear into machine. Shot of young farmer climbing truck, shovelling grain to equalize load. Shots of trucks sidling up to moving combine. PAN of prairie, windrows extending to the horizon. PAN to four distant combines approaching slowly. TILT UPs from field to drivers, along windrows to approaching combines. Sequence showing harvesters having lunch in field, pick-up trucks parked nearby, private plane streaking by on take-off.

DETAILS

Excerpt from
Wheat Harvest
Location
Alberta
Year
1956
Collection
National Film Board
Available formats
Reel 35 mm, HDCAM SR, Digital Video Disk
Shooting format
35mm neg b&w, 16mm eastman color neg
Aspect ratio
4/3, ANAMORPHIC_4/3
Available resolutions
1920 x 1080