FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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Australian Apples

The cultivation, grading and export of Australian apples.
Year : 1930 | Total Duration : 10 Minutes |
High angle pan across orchards and rural scenics. MS young young boy picking apples from trees and eating. CUs blossoms on trees. VS orchard and CU shears pruning branch. GS rotary hoe cultivating between rows then with horse drawn cultivator. CU apples on tree bough.
Access No. 46567 | 2 mins 27 secs | 1930s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Apple growers in orchard measuring fruit and examining with colour chart. CU cluster of apples on branch. GS men in overalls hand picking apples from trees into wooden crates and CUs hand picking fruit. GS loading crates onto flatbed truck.
Access No. 46568 | 1 min 34 secs | 1930s | © NFSA | B&W |
VS packing shed with loading fruit onto hopper. VS grading, packing and machinery. GS inspection of fruit in packed crate. VS trucks transporting crates to railway, others to dock with GS large container ship at wharf. Steam ferry on river delivering apples to Hobart. MS government inspector in trench coat and fedora inspecting fruit.
Access No. 46569 | 2 mins 27 secs | 1930s | Hobart, Tas, Australia. | © NFSA | B&W |
GS cranes lifting crates of apples onto ship at wharf. WS ship through water. CU apples in box.
Access No. 46570 | 30 secs | 1930s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |