The olive tree

Collection title

Collection of the Department of Agriculture

ID

INA00579

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

01/01/1931

Production year

1931

Abstract

Founder of the French Film Edition, Jean Benoit- Lévy directed over 300 films for state institutions (public education, hygiene...),during the inter war. Commissioned or purchased by the Department of Agriculture, a number of these films are designed to popularize new knowledge in agriculture and promote modernization of the countryside. The Film Library retains a hundred of these silent short or long films, made between 1925 and 1935, and recently assigned to the INA. The film presented here is about olive growing and the benefits of olive oil; Footage shot in Provence and in the region of Sfax in Tunisia

Type

video

Production companies

• French Film Eddition - Own production

Broadcaster

INA

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Agriculture, breeding

Credits / Cast

• Benoît Lévy Jean - Director

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• Tunisia - North - Sfax
• France - South East - Nice

Original language

French

Media running time

19m57

Additional information

"Black and White, silent"