Getreideernte Weisweil (LFS01336)
Résumé
Description
Men scouring grain / women bundle the straw / man sharpens the blade of the scythe / boys play on the harvested field / harvester, close up / cow is led out of the stable and cocked in front of a wagon / farmer gets on the wagon and drives along the village street / pan over grain field / people bundling the grain sheaves, sheaves are tied together and loaded onto wagons / the straw is tied to the heavily loaded wagon / cow pulls the wagon back to the village, children sit on the straw on top and waving / straw is threshed in the machine / finished bales of straw are loaded onto wagons / horse-drawn wagons with loaded straw / boy pulls pig by the tail / man with calf on a rope / woman runs a street with calf on the rope along / ship on the Rhine, pan over the bank / pan over the ship //
Contexte et analyse
The focus is on traditional grain harvesting in Weisweil as an idyll in the country. The farmers cut the grain with scythe and sickle and bound it into sheaves. At the beginning of this colored amateur film we see a slightly older farmer who cuts the grain with a scythe. Little by little you know the family that helps him. A woman ties the straws into sheaves, a young man holds the rope to fasten the sheaves. Everyone helps. The men cut the grain with scythes and sickles, the women tie it into sheaves and the young boys think the ropes are sheaves. Sometimes it is filmed from a distance as the farmer cuts the grain, sometimes this process is shown from very close. The farmer sharpens his scythe with a whetstone.
Again and again it is shown how strenuous and sweaty the grain harvest is. The farmer is drenched in sweat in front of the camera and dabs his forehead with a small cloth. During a short break, the family members pose for the camera, smiling. A boy brushes the farmer's horse. The scene changes and the farmer leads an ox out of the stable and clamps it in front of a large wooden cart. He drives him through the streets of the village until he finally reaches the grain field. During this time, the other family members continued to work hard. Everywhere in the field you can see the sheaves set up at home or dolls, which should still dry. The amateur film shows how all family members help the farmer to load the sheaves. The cart is located between the rows of sheaves in the field, so that you only have to lift the sheaves onto the cart with forks, where the farmer places them neatly in order to be able to transport as much as possible. The grain was stacked two to three meters high and attached to both sides of the cart with ropes. Now the return journey begins with three boys on top of the cart. The peasant family smiling happily to themselves is shown again and again.
The grain is threshed out with a large threshing machine. The audience is shown how this machine works. Towards the end of the film you can see a little boy playing with a pig. This sniffs around in the mud of the street and is held by the boy's tail. Furthermore, a young couple and a single man are shown, who lead a calf on a leash. Towards the end of the amateur film you can see ruins on the river bank of the Rhine. This is the only reference to the war that has just ended. The bunker probably belonged to the 'Westwall', which was built as a fortification on the Rhine in 1938/39. In front of the ruin, the cargo ship "Slavonia" is anchored with several barrels on deck.
The Second World War is over four years ago and people are going back to their normal everyday lives. It is interesting to see that the residents of Weisweil are happy again four years after the end of the war and, despite all the progress, are limited to traditional agricultural work. This may be related to the enormous cost of such machines or that they were damaged in the phosphorus attack on April 18, 1945. Because on this day 90 percent of the houses in Weisweil were destroyed. In this colorful amateur film, the audience is shown a romantic image of traditional agricultural work. Machines are hardly shown and so the impression can arise that it would have been recorded much earlier. The film, like the b / w film "Everyday Life in Weisweil" (1939), conveys a beautiful and idyllic picture of agricultural work. However, it shows a rather atypical picture of agricultural work, which was mechanized in the 1940s, as the film "Agricultural Work" (1942) shows.
Although threshing machines were built entirely of steel from 1929, the one shown in the film by the Heinrich Lanz AG is largely made of wood and only the machine parts are made of steel. So tradition is also cultivated here. A few years later, threshing machines were replaced by the combine harvesters that are still known today. The agricultural machinery company Schanzlin begins production in Weisweil in 1953. The company was founded in 1908 in Fahrnau on the Swiss border. The mechanical workshop produced, for example, hand tractors, straw cutters, pumps, band saws and planing machines. With the increasing motorization of agriculture after the Second World War, the construction of tractors, motor mowers, motor hoes and various tractors began. In 2016 the family company completely gave up production.
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