This film was made for classroom teaching to illustrate man's use of land in the rural areas of the Scottish Highlands in the 1930s. There is a sense of how backbreaking the work must have been before the mechanisation of farming. Clearly it was a tough existence and here we see that women were by no means exempt from the heavy work, carrying bales of hay back to the farmhouse. The film was commissioned by a committee of educationalists from the urban central belt of Scotland, and intended for an audience of schoolchildren from the cities, for whom these rural scenes would have been far from their experiences.
Complete film (7:30)
