Cornish Valley
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1994.19.51
name: label: Collection Film distributor
content: Pennsylvania State University. Audio-Visual Services
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content: Penn State educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (16 minutes, black-and-white sound; 576 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced by the British Ministry of Information on daily life in eastern Cornwall. Film focuses on a farming family which runs several different farms. Farming scenes include herding livestock (sheep and cows), plowing fields with horse-drawn plow, cutting wood at a water mill, shearing sheep and lambing. Also included are scenes of market day in the village of Coomb Hampton and descriptions of non-farming activities in Cornwall such as slate quarries, tin mines and china clay works.

Legacy Keywords: Farmers England ; Europe ; England ; Cornwall (England)