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        Farm at Staplefield

        Joyce Hayward's seductive film shows the relaxed pattern of life and work on a West Sussex farm during the harvest season

        Amateur film 1966 18 mins Silent

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        Overview

        Joyce Hayward's charming and nicely photographed film set on a farm at Staplefield, West Sussex, concentrates on showing us the work involved, and the variety of machinery that's used in gathering in the wheat harvest. A conveyor is used to stack straw bales in a barn after they've been collected from the fields. A combine harvester works the fields, filling a trailer with grain as it goes. Finally, After more baling, we see a second conveyor sucking the grain up into a silo.