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Bulb growing in British Columbia
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- moving images
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British Columbia. Dept. of Agriculture
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[ca. 1931] (Creation)
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1 film reel (300 ft) : original?, b&w, silent with inter-titles ; 16 mm
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The item is a reel of b&w documentary film from ca. 1931. "Vancouver Island bulb grower and his home and garden. October, planting time, bulbs being shaken from the back of the tractor into every second furrow, then placed by hand. Spring cultivation with a rototiller. Men in overcoats inspecting plants for disease and insect damage. Pan across field of daffodils. Pickers picking blooms to improve the bulb, then dumping them into a heap to be destroyed. Pickers playing in a pile of flowers. Men inspecting good blooms. Diseased or insect-smitten bulbs are rogued, or dug up and destroyed. Huge litter of cut blooms being carried away by pickers. Bulbs ploughed out of the ground by a tractor that once was a Ford car. Helpers collecting the bulbs from the top of the furrow. Bulbs in baskets, transported to drying sheds. Loose bulbs are unloaded into drying trays for storage. Stacking trays in storage shed, unloading truck." (Colin Browne)
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Copyright Government of British Columbia.
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References: Listed in Browne, "Motion Picture Production in B.C.", entry #0109.
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Accession number(s): F1980:027
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Previously described as AAAA1169.
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producing agency/company: British Columbia. Dept. of Agriculture
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Agriculture reel no. 053.