- Title: V-4815
- Summary: SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION: SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BALANCE OF NATURE IS UPSET BY EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES. SUGGESTS THAT ORGANIZED PLANNING AND CONSERVATION CAN ARREST THE DANGEROUS DESTRUCTION OF TOP SOIL ON WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS.
- Description:03:33:13 - BEAUTIFUL SCENIC SHOTS OF NATURE: LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS, PAN ALONG PINE AND FIR TREES, MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE TREES, DEER STANDING IN FIELD, PAN UP RIVER TO MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN RANGE 03:33:31 - INDUSTRIAL AREA, FACTORY, SMOKESTACK BELCHING BLACK SMOKE 03:33:38 - TOP OF TREE BEING FELLED CUT DOWN, TREE FALLS DOWN. TIMBER 03:33:49 - TREES STANDING IN FOREST 03:33:57 - TRUNKS OF CUT DOWN TREES, LOGS, SITTING ON FOREST FLOOR. CAMERA PANS ACROSS LANDSCAPE OF FELLED TREES, STUMPS 03:34:15 - CU CIGARETTE SITTING ON FOREST FLOOR. CIGARETTE IGNITES GRASS AROUND IT, SETS AREA ON FIRE. HUGE FOREST FIRE. VARIOUS VIEWS OF FOREST BURNING, TREES ON FIRE 03:34:32 - DESOLATE, BURNED OUT AREA THAT WAS ONCE THE FOREST 03:34:40 - ECU SOIL. RAINDROPS HIT AND THROW EARTH UP LIKE EXPLOSIONS OF DIRT. ECU RAIN FALLING 03:34:53 - VIEW OF DEFORESTED AREA, TINY STICKS AND LOOSE SOIL. RAIN FALLS AND FLOWS OUT OF CONTROL. RAIN BECOMES STREAM, TEARING APART THE EARTH OF THE HILLSIDE. TURNS INTO FLOOD, FLOWS LIKE RIVER. FLOODING FOREST 03:35:12 - ANIMATION SHOWS THE ECOSYSTEM AS A CHAIN, DESTROYING ONE LINK DESTROYS THE CHAIN. DIAGRAM OF WATER TABLE FALLING PLANTS DYING 03:35:37 - CATTLE GRAZING ON SHRUB OAK IN DESERT-LIKE AREA, PAN ACROSS ROCKY DESERT, WASTELAND 03:36:03 - TRACTOR PLOWING LAND 03:36:12 - DRYING UP STREAM WITH BRANCHES EXPOSED, DROUGHT 03:36:17 - WIND, DUST DEVILS TINY TORNADOES MOVING ACROSS THE LAND. DUST STORMS DESOLATE LANDSCAPE, DRIED OUT FIELDS 03:36:52 - MORE CHAIN LINK ANIMATION 03:37:01 - FOREST WITH SMOKE OR MIST AMONG THE TREES 03:37:09 - FLOODED AREA, TREE TRUNK PRACTICALLY UNDERWATER. CHURNING FLOOD WATERS. TOWN FLOODED, HOUSES TELEPHONE POLES UNDER WATER 03:37:37 - MORE CHAIN LINK ANIMATION 03:37:44 - FISH SWIMMING IN STREAM 03:37:53 - RIVER AND TREES 03:38:01 - PAN OVER ERODED AREA, CLIFF DEAD DROP CAUSED BY WASHED AWAY SOIL 03:38:06 - RIVER CARRYING AWAY SOIL, CAUSING EROSION 03:38:15 - ANIMATION, MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, RED DOTS MOVE SHOWING THE RETRACTING FARMLANDS, COALESCE INTO BLOCK IN THE MIDWEST, DOTS WASHING AWAY OUT TO GULF OF MEXICO 03:38:41 - FORMER PARK NOW WASTELAND. FORMER FARM NOW WASTELAND. FORMER GRAZING LAND NOW WASTELAND. FORMER CORN FIELD NOW WASTELAND 03:39:02 - DESERT WASTELAND, DUST BLOWS OVER SKELETON OF COW OR HORSE 03:39:09 - FARMER ON TRACTOR TILLING PLOWING LAND. THRESHER IN WHEAT FIELD 03:39:32 - SIGN: "NOW ENTERING MONONGAHELA NATIONAL FOREST. US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE" 03:39:37 - SLATES ON SCREEN: "US SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE", "THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE", "BUREAU OF RECLAMATION", "FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE" 03:39:45 - RIVER WITH PARK RANGER PADDLING BOAT 03:39:53 - PAN ACROSS LANDSCAPE, HILLSIDE 03:40:01 - FARM. PAN ACROSS FARMSTEAD 03:40:08 - BIRDS, HERONS IN TOPS OF TREE BRANCHES. HERON FLYING IN SLOW MOTION 03:40:17 - MORE CHAIN LINK ANIMATION 03:40:35 - HAY STACKS IN FARM FIELD 03:40:42 - AERIAL OF LANDSCAPE AFFECTED BY EROSION 03:40:49 - LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS, NATURAL BEAUTY 03:40:52 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1948
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-4815