Australia Project For Rice Growing (1962)

Location: East Kimberley, Australia Title reads: "Huge New Rice Project On Ord River". Aerial view of the Ord River making its way through East Kimberley area in South Australia. Two good shots of mechanical excavator loading earth on to a lorry wok has just started on a huge project which includes two dams and an irrigation area. LS. Bulldozer at work. GV. New irrigation scheme under way. GV. Rice field which is the first of many to be made on this two hundred acres which are to be irrigated rice that will be exported to Asia. MS. Rice farmer Roy Kinsey takes a close look at his rice shoots. Aerial view of area under new irrigation schemes. (FG. Comb) FILM ID:3040.24 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/