Home » Film Categories

Bacterial fertilizers for the field. Saue Laboratory of Bacterial Fertilizers (1954)

Original titile: Bakteriväetisi põldudele. Saue Bakteriväetiste Laboratoorium

Newsreel “Soviet Estonia” No. 4, February 1954

Newsreels Duration 01:27

Plot summary

Tasks in the laboratory of bacterial fertilizers in Saue.

View to Saue in winter. Worker wearing a white gown enters the building where there is the sign next to the door: Laboratory of bacterial fertilizers. Лаб. бакт. Удобрений". View to the lab. Voldemar Soorm working by the desk. He leads the project of cultivating the bacterial crops necessary for increasing soil fertility. Lab assistant takes care for the breeding process. Infected nutritional fluid is kept at a fixed temperature for that purpose. Preparation of the special soil for preserving and multiplying the bacteria requires as much care as the bacteria breeding. Two lab assistants in dark gowns insert soil into bottles, these are put into an autoclave where the soil will be sterilized. Cameraman shows the bottles with sterilized soil. Brigade leader Rudolf Hanimägi takes care of the bottles so that no other bacteria would get in. A bottle of Nitragin with the label. Packing the bottles into boxes. 

Keywords: producing bacterial fertilizers | laboratory assistents | laboratory | laboratory work | soil science | improving soil fertility | developing agriculture | agricultural scientist | agricultural science | scientists | storing of production | introducing production | fertilizers | View all »

Partners and Sponsors

  • Kultuuriministeerium
  • EFI
  • Eesti Kultuurkapital
  • ERR
  • Rahvusarhiiv
  • BFM
  • Kinoliit
  • Eesti Filmiajakirjanike ühing
  • Tallinnfilm