Birth Of The Soil: Encyclopedia Britannica

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Birth Of The Soil: Encyclopedia Britannica is a short film from 1948 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Explains how topsoil is produced from rock, water, air and sunlight over a period of many centuries. Contrasts the productivity of topsoil with subsoil.

Birth Of The Soil: Encyclopedia Britannica
Produced byEncyclopedia Britannica
Production
company
Encyclopedia Britannica
Distributed byEncyclopedia Britannica
Release date
1948
Running time
00:10:00
LanguageEnglish
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Episode of Series “The Living Earth”.

This film shows how nature produces life-giving topsoil from the basic raw materials of rock, air, and sunlight, by the processes of plant growth and decay and photosynthesis.

Credits Production Company Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Director
GEORGE E. BREWER JNR

Production Places UNITED STATES

Production Dates 1948

ACMI Identifier
320240

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