Belgian Farm
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1994.21.22
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content: REMC 2 educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 402 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1955
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 shows the day in the life of farmers on an old prosperous farm in the lowlands of Flanders, Belgium. Activities featured include feeding farm animals; plowing fields, cutting, bundling and loading wheat into horse drawn haywagon; setting windmill to grind grain; Belgian draft horses pulling wagon; and milking cows by hand. Film also includes bargainning session between farmer and butcher for a fatted cow featuring hand slapping routine which emphasizes offers and counter offers with deal being settled on a handshake.

Legacy Keywords: Agriculture Belgium ; Livestock