- Title: V-4816
- Summary: SEEDS OF PROSPERITY: SOUTHERN PLANTATION MANSION. COTTON INDUSTRY. FIGHTING COTTON DISEASES WITH MERCURY POWDER COTTON TREATMENT MACHINES. LIFESTYLES 1940s CONSUMER PRODUCTS AGRICULTURE
- Description:03:41:02 - CU COTTON BOLL SLOWLY TURNING 03:41:12 - QUICK SEQUENCE OF IMAGES, SPINNING 78 RECORD ON PHONOGRAPH RECORD PLAYER, CU SPINNING 1940s CAR WHEEL DRIVING, CU FILM GOING THROUGH MACHINE INNER WORKINGS, CU WASHING HANDS OVER SINK. SOAP, POURING MEAL OUT OF SACK, BODY SHOP WORKER SPRAYS CAR WITH LACQUER , WOMAN FLIPS THROUGH WRITING PAPER, WOMAN OPENING PURSE, APPLYING LIPSTICK, 03:41:24 - ROLLS OF COTTON THREAD 03:41:29 - COTTON MILL MACHINE 03:41:32 - LOADING DOCK, COTTON MILL. MEN LOAD COTTON ON TO HORSE DRAWN BUGGIES PANS GROUNDS. 03:41:42 - COTTON PICKERS IN FIELD BENT OVER 03:41:48 - CU FINGERS PICKING APART COTTON BOLL PULLS OUT COTTON SEED. 03:42:04 - QUICK SEQUENCE , CU FINGERS DIALING 1940s PHONE, FINGERS TURNING ON RADIO, TAKING LUGGAGE FROM CAR, WRITING LETTER 03:42:12 - CU HANDS PICKING APART COTTON 03:42:21 - CU BOLL WORM FEEDING ON COTTON BOLL 03:42:31 - CU WORM DEVELOPED INTO BOLL WEEVIL EATING COTTON 03:42:36 - PLANE SPRAYING COTTON FIELD 03:42:41 - CU SLOWLY SPINNING DISEASED COTTON BOLL FUNGUS, MOLD. TIME LAPSE OF BOLL OPENING 03:43:36 - CU DISEASED LEAVES OF COTTON. ANGULAR LEAF SPOTS. 03:43:45 - CU HANDS OPENING DISEASED BOLL OF COTTON 03:44:03 - COTTON FARMER ON GROUND PULLS OUT NEWLY PLANTED SEED OPENS IT. 03:44:11 - COTTON FARMER WALKS ACROSS NEWLY PLANTED FIELD, INSPECTING CROP 03:44:25 - CU ROOTS OF DISEASED COTTON PLANTS 03:44:44 - PAN OF WHOLE CROP OF DISEASED PLANTS 03:44:59 - FARMER INSPECTING CROP IN FIELD HANDS ON HIPS SHAKES HEAD IN DISGUIST 03:45:12 - ANIMATED DIAGRAM DESCRIBING HOW DISEASE ATTACKS PLANT 03:45:54 - SCIENTISTS-LAB WORKERS WORKING ON DISINFECTANT TO KILL FUNGUS & NOT HARM SEEDS. INSTURMENTS BEAKERS 03:46:18 - CU WORKER BRUSHES MERCURY POWDER INTO JAR, CORKS IT. 03:46:32 - TIME LAPSE GROTH OF SEEDS TO FULL GROWN PLANTS. CHECK & CERESAN TREATED 03:47:02 - SCIENTISTS GROW PLANTS IN GREENHOUSE. 03:47:05 - SEEDS GROW SIDE BY SIDE SOME TREATED SOME NOT 03:47:13 - KNEELING FARMER CHECKS PLANTS FOR DISEASE 03:47:22 - CU PAN TWO ROWS OF PLANTS, ONES NOT TREATED ARE DEAD ONES TREATED WITH MERCURY POWDER THRIVING 03:47:29 - FARMER OPENS FUNKY MAIL BOX CU BOOKLET ON HOW TO TREAT COTTON SEED 03:47:35 - CU, BOOKLETS ON COTTON GROWING 03:47:39 - CU NEWSPAPER COLLAGE STORIES ON SCIENTIFIC SEED TREATMENT. 03:47:48 - CU RADIO ANNOUNCER READING, MOS. MAN READING FROM PAGE, MOS 03:47:58 - MONTAGE OF FARMERS, TEACHERS, SCIENTISTS WITH MAP OF U.S.A. SUPERIMPOSED. 03:48:09 - 1940s "MODERN" COTTON TREATMENT MACHINE. MEN WEAR PROTECTIVE FACE MASKS. GEAR CHAIN 03:48:25 - FARMER USING ROTARY TYPE HOMEMADE OIL DRUM ON SAW HORSES. 03:48:31 - BLUEPRINTS SHOWING HOW TO MAKE ROTARY TREATMENT MACHINE 03:48:35 - CU FARMER SCOOPING POWDER IN OIL DRUM. 03:48:40 - FARMER'S SON COMES OVER & HELPS TURN CRANK. 03:48:54 - PAN FIELD ARROW POINTS OUT TREATED SEED PLANTS. 03:49:08 - TWO BIG PILES OF COTTON ARROWS POINT OUT SIZE DIFFERENCE. 03:49:18 - COINS DROP OUT OF SACK SUPERIMPOSED OVER PILE OF COTTON 03:49:28 - SMALL TOWN, U.S.A. MAIN STREET 1940s CARS TRUCKS RAILROAD CROSSING LIGHTS 03:49:35 - QUICK SEQUENCE , FARMING EQUIPMENT STORE, APPLIANCE STORE, HOUSEWIFE ADJUSTS KNOBS ON STEREO CONSOLE, HOUSEWIFE OPENS REFRIGERATOR BOY TRIES ON NEW BOOTS IN SHOE STORE, 03:49:46 - CURRENCY-MONEY PASSED OVER COUNTER, 03:49:50 - CU BANK TELLER WINDOW, HAND GRABS PASSBOOK 03:49:55 - PAN HEALTHY COTTON FIELD 03:50:01 - CHICKEN HOUSE CHICKENS 03:50:07 - LIVESTOCK, CATTLE, COWS GRAZING 03:50:09 - FARM HOUSE HAY STACKS 03:50:13 - HOUSEWIFE AT HOME CURLS UP ON COUCH FLIPPING THROUGH MAGAZINE, 1940s 03:50:16 - HOUSEWIFE WEARING APRON FILLS COFFEE POT WITH WATER FROM SINK. OLD FASHIONED GLASS BALL COFFEE MAKER 03:50:28 - EXTERIOR, SOUTHERN PLANTATION MANSION-HOUSE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-4816