Here and There (clip)
A colour record of mid-century ploughing and peat cutting in Caithness.
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Footage of croft life from rural Caithness in the early 1940's. The clip opens on a crofter and two horses ploughing a field. Next, two men cut peat from a bank as a sheepdog watches on. Peat is stacked to begin the drying process. Two portraits of the workers briefly appear, before further scenes from the peat harvesting play out the clip.
Questions & Activities
- What is happening in this film?
- What is the peat used for?
- Why must it be dried?
- What is it formed from?
- What are the environmental effects of removing too much peat?
- What does this film say about the life of Crofters?
- Why would people want to leave?
Technologies / Geography: Research the technology of agriculture. How long would the man have continued using horses?
Geography / Geology: How long does it take peat to form?
Music: Create a work song to complement the movement in the film that would reflect the things you would find in a working film.
|Resource Rights Holder||By kind permission of The Wick Society|
|School Subject||Technologies, Geography, Geology, Music|
|Who||Alex Johnston (filmmaker)|