"IN THE WINDMILL" MILLING FLOUR FROM WHEAT USING A WINDMILL 1930s GERMAN FILM (SILENT) XD53775

Описание: This silent film, "In the Windmill / Milling Flour from Wheat" was made by the German Reich Office for Teaching Films in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The film starts (00:00 with images of a farmer and his son hooking up a horse drawn wagon. At (2:12), burlap bags are filled with harvested wheat, and carefully weighed. They are then loaded on the wagon and transported to the mill (4:06). At (4:59) the operator lowers a chain so that the grain bags can be brought up to the grinding room. The type of windmill shown is a European wooden post mill, or "Bockwindmühle" in German. The entire body of the mill could be rotated so that it could face the wind. At (7:07), the base of the mill is freed and at (7:36) the body of the mill is rotated into the wind before being secured at (8:30). A counterbalance is moved at (8:54) so that the blades can catch the wind and move. At (10:00) the grain is fed into the millstones and then the flour is placed back into bags. At (14;13) the farmer settles up with the mill operator.

The post mill (also known as a pillar mill, box mill , or German windmill ) is the oldest type of windmill in Europe . Its defining characteristic is that the entire mill structure rests on a single, thick post (the "house post"), which is vertically mounted in a wooden support frame (the eponymous "trestle") located beneath the mill itself. The entire mill machinery can be turned into the wind using the leverage of the outer beam on the trestle. However, this method is not ideal and is very laborious when wind directions are changing.

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