Info video

aspect ratio

4:3

colour

Black & White

category

General

keywords

labour

workers

landscapes

farmers

potatoes

ships

food

heavy

harvesting

horse and cart

hay

wheelbarrows

goods trains

farm workers

people

date

11 Dec 1941

location

Netherlands

Workers processing potatoes

Using the motto "the Netherlands feeds itself " the National Socialist Action "Battle of Production" explains to viewers that the Netherlands should look to self-supporting with respect to feeding its own people. This item is about potatoes.

Extended info for: "Workers processing potatoes"

SHOTS:
- Farmhands on the land are filling a cart from an ensiled stock of potatoes, the potatoes are weighed, transported away with a wheelbarrow and dumped in the hold of a barge;
- Potatoes are unloaded from the barges and transferred into railway wagons, in the city the wagons are unloaded and the potatoes loaded onto horse-drawn carriages