English Harvest (1938)

1. Is that a Claas Lexion working away after the scythe- lol
2. A idyllic scene, to German music, but a little gem all the same. I remember stooks in the early 1950's.
3. Excellent.
4. WAS HEAVY LIFE BUT GOOD..
5. For all those who want to get dewy eyed about "The good old days" let me tell you that my Mum's family were farmers and growers before (and after) World War II and being in agriculture then was very far from an idyllic life. So much cheap food was imported into the UK from abroad that prices for home grown produce were low and thus family incomes were as well.
   The revolution in farming practices that, by necessity, the war provoked were nothing short of revolutionary. Far more mechanisation and new techniques together with the bringing into cultivation of marginal land resulted in a doubling of output so that by the end of the war UK farmers were producing two thirds of the food necessary to feed the nation as against only one third before it.
   And we benefit from the legacy of that today. UK agriculture is amongst the most efficient and productive in the world.
   Some may mourn the passing of horses and hand scythes but my forebears most certainly did not.
6. English Harvest [1938]
7. The programme is called 1930's late in the UK people used to go London and town or that is a dictionary is a real book of words and learning about London in the town farms are very harvest alright in late 1930's they used harvest to collect charity from the Farmville on the 1930's late you need to be polite to other people but not very silly or stupid and you can be good so far it is now on the video was Uploaded on Apr 22, 2009 when someone is Uploaded on Apr 22, 2009 and I go for a million dollars for that hat now
8. and now on Dec 18, 2015
9. 0.42  Dear God. Imagine walking into a field that size armed only with a large knife on the end of a stick!!!
10. nice blue skies back then no chemtrails
11. These farmers would turn in their graves if they saw the England of today and it's obeisance to the Marxists in Brussels.
12. Wonderful. Not a tractor in sight. Just lovable horses. And no horrible modern buildings in the background. I bet that home brew tasted like nectar.
13. Ahh, those long gone days. I was 3 years old when this film was made. One year later many of these farm fields, especially in Lincolnshire, were turned into RAF airfields and thousands ofL Lancaster bombers were housed in these fields. 
    Small fields of corn and other cereal crops no longer exist. Huge acreages have taken over, more like endless prairies where massive combine harvesters roam, doing the work of a hundred or more men.
    Nothing stays forever, more's the pity.
    Lovely nostalgic film. Thanks for sharing it with us.
14. no fatties
15. A hard but glorious life
16. Reminds me of an old Painting I did of a school chum: The PASTORAL DAVID ALEXANDER WEISS! (The same Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony inspired both as background)
17. Only 75 years ago and look at the "machinery"!!
18. WTF
19. I really enjoyed this film.Notice how slim everyone was,i bet obese people were not as common as they are now.Hard work for sure but far healthy than today's lifestyle.
20. Chances are a lot of the older chaps in this film would have fought in WW1- it looks so romantic, and in a way it was-country villages are full of commuters now, and our fields are so mechanised, a 100 acre farm easily cared for by one person.