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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

10716

Title

FARMING IN KENYA

Producer

4th Baron Egerton of Tatton

Date

1925-39

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

15 mins 37 secs

Description

Bulldozing an antheap in Kenya followed by a gas powered traction engine ploughing a field before planting maize with an oxen pulled seed drill. After Oxen going to the water trough we have a mother and child then a small naked boy crying at the camera. A woman carrying firewood then a game of Polo with parts shot in slow motion. Two women carrying large bales of grass for thatching is followed by a 14 oxen team pulling a plough.

 

 



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