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This programme illustrates methods flower growers and sellers have to face in the transportation of cut flowers.
This programme illustrates methods flower growers and sellers have to face in the transportation of cut flowers.
| Module code and title: | MT365, "Graphs, networks and design" |
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| Item code: | MT365; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 1995 |
| Published: | 1995 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | David Saunders |
| Contributors: | Roy Nelson; Andrew Way |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Aalsmeer Flower Auction; Daffodils; Isles of Scilly; Narcissus; The bin-packing problem; The knapsack problem; The transportation problem |
| Subject terms: | Flowers--Marketing; Mathematics; Transport planning |
| Footage description: | Footage - Flowers stalls. Roy Nelson at flower market. Narcissi. Aerial views of Isles of Scilly. Isles of Scilly shots panning to Narcissi. Two people in field picking Narcissi. Andrew May in green house with different varieties of Narcissi. View of coastline. Person picking Narcissi. Female bunching Narcissi together. Male putting flowers in box(0'21"-4'05") - Female answering telephone in office. Andrew May sitting on edge of desk in office, female at PC and another female in background. Quayside with crate loaded onto ship "Gry Maritha". Fixed winged plane landing. Helicopter on ground and 2 men in vehicles to unload helicopter. Control tower. Roy Nelson with control tower in background. Graphic animation(4'06"-9'53") - Helicopter loaded with flower boxes. Man unloading bags from helicopter. Pilots in helicopter. Man leaning over boat handing box to man on quayside. Truck backing to edge of quayside with hoist swinging in background. Aerial view of Land's End and Penzance. Roy Nelson at Penzance with "Gry Maritha" behind him. Graphic animation(9'54"-14'31") - Railway line with helicopter in sky above. Moving train. Andrew May in office with female at PC and another female in background. Lorries moving along a street. Views of flower market at Aalsmeer. Roy Nelson looking down at floor area at Aalsmeer flower market. Views of market. Men in auction room. View of market. Trollies entering auction room. Men at auction. 2 people at computers in auction room. Auction clock. Tulips. Flowers packed into a box. Flowers on trollies. Trollies loaded into lorries. Roy Nelson with lorry in background(14'32"-20'16") - Graphic animation. Flowers on trollies. Flowers. Men loading helicopter. Boxes of flowers with "Gry Maritha" in background. Traffic. Roy Nelson at flower market holding a bunch of Narcissi(20'17"-23'23"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU8314 |
| Production number: | FOUM506W |
| Videofinder number: | 4987 |
| Available to public: | no |
