SOIL EROSION CONTROL IN USA AND INDIA: GORRIE PERSONAL FILM NO. 40

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 660688).

Synopsis

(B/W) Erosion control in Coon Creek, Wisconsin, "Placed with Siwalik film as my USA tour in 1934-35 gave me ideas as to what was needed in Siwaliks". Trenches and rubble bunds in Kalachitta, Attock. Building stone and wire bolsters in Nurpur Kangra to check gully erosion. Check dams to catch silt. Run-off trays for measuring silt losses at Madhopur. (Col & B/W) Using bullocks to construct watt-bandi and contour trenches in Siwaliks. Indian schoolboys filling a silage pit with shisham leaves. Flood plains hedges and damage.

 

Titles

  • GORRIE PERSONAL FILM NO. 40: SOIL EROSION CONTROL IN USA AND INDIA (Alternative)
  • SOIL EROSION CONTROL IN USA AND INDIA: GORRIE PERSONAL FILM NO. 40 (Archive)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1939
Running Time:
8 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm Film
Colour:
Colour and Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
287 ft
 

Production Credits

Photography
GORRIE, R. Maclagan