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Farmland, 1950's - Film 16320

199 views · Published 20 January 2015 · 12:27 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: HuntleyFilmArchives · 2015 · Education

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Picturesque mountains; farms. A farmer's wife working with hayfork. Boundary stones. Ox with carriage. Drawing of "Germany from above": Cut up pieces of fields are to be seen. "Many farmers own small pieces of land". Old documents showing the allocation of land. An example of a farm with a rather large piece of land around it. - 'A "bad" example (drawing of a map): The village Hopfengarten. The properties of the different farmers are drawn in showing confusing patchwork "but then the farmers recognized the disadvantages and united their fields to larger ones." New map with larger fields: consolidation of farmland. - A boundary stone. - A group of farmers walking through the fields with maps and talking about possibilities of consolidation. - Cut up fields. - Another example: Map of village; the 162 (!) scattered little plots of a farmer drawn in. The ways to all the plots drawn in: 206 km. The farmer on a horse carriage ("hours and hours he has to go"). Farmer working (ploughing); then walking again. "He walks longer than he works." "The total length of the ways to his fields equals the distance Nuremberg - Bremen, 412 km." Farmer working manually on a small stripe of land. "It is too narrow for a team." Farmer sowing; a farmer ploughing with ox and plough. - Cut up pieces of land. Small paths through the fields. Furrows between the small pieces of land. Standing waters between the fields ("Irrigation is impossible.") Oxen and carriages laden with straw on bad paths. - Village with narrow streets. Fountain. More shots of cut up farmland. - A map of West Germany. The percentage of consolidated farmland ("48% are still to be consolidated). Two men looking at a map in an office for consolidating farmland. Farmers in the village, talking, discussing. Maps: before and after consolidation. Farmers register their wishes at the office for consolidation. Farmers and officials on the fields, judging the quality of the land and classifying it. Draughtsmen in an office working out the new maps. The finished map. - Work outdoors begins. Surveyors at work. Surveyors, fields, farmers... Men digging away a slope to create more farmland (?). Horse carriages on the paths. Men digging furrows. An excavator at work. A crawler pushes the soil into the standing waters. The consolidated farmlands. Two men walking along a canal. Long pan over consolidated fields. Tractor with reaping trailer at work. Horses and trailer laden with hay. Conveyer belt at the farmhouse. "New machines can be used". Horses pulling fertilizing machine. Pastures. Cattle. Sprinklers. Planting of fruit trees. Map of farmland. Bricklaying. "New energies for the whole village life." A new barn. Building sites. Nearly finished dwelling houses. Small lake with geese, ducks, swans. Open-air swimming pool. Children swimming. Happy farmer's wife with children and sunflowers. Gardening. Woman carrying water can. The "new" village. Maps of Germany showing symbolically Germany before and after consolidation. Dairy products (drawings) emerge from the drawing of a "new" farm.

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