- Title: PA-22
- Summary: VICTORY GARDENS: FAMILY VICTORY GARDEN. HOMEFRONT DURING WWII.
- Description:01:27:12 - VARIOUS VIEWS FARM BUILDINGS IN NORTHERN MARYLAND 01:27:17 - MIDDLE AGED FARMER PICKS UP MAIL FROM MAIL BOX 01:27:22 - MOTHER WALKS TOWARDS GATE WITH BASKET FULL OF EGGS. CHICKENS FEEDING ON GROUND 01:27:35 - GRANDFATHER SITS ON BOX AGAINST BARN DOOR & CUTS POTATOES OVER BASKET. 01:27:40 - GRANDCHILDREN WEARING OVERALLS APPROACH & SIT NEXT TO GRANDFATHER 01:28:00 - WIFE RUNS OUT OF HOUSE TO MEET WOMAN FROM COUNTY OFFICE WHO DRIVES UP IN CAR TO DELIVER BULLETINS ABOUT VICTORY GARDENS, 01:28:05 - WOMAN EXITS CAR & WALKS TO HOUSE WITH WIFE 01:28:10 - FAMILY SITS ON PORCH STEPS PERUSING THE BULLETINS. 01:28:36 - ABOVE VIEW 1/4 ACRE TO BE USED FOR VICTORY GARDEN IS MAGICALLY FILLED WITH FULL-GROWN VEGETABLE PLANTS ROW BY ROW: POTATOES, PEAS, CABBAGE, CARROTS & BEETS 01:29:25 - AERIAL VIEW COMPLETED VICTORY GARDEN NEAR FARM HOUSE 01:29:32 - FAMILY PLANTS THE "LATE" GARDEN. 01:29:39 - AERIAL VIEW GARDEN AFTER ALL "EARLY" PLANTS ARE REMOVED. 01:30:17 - CU WIFE NAILS OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE ON BULLETIN BOARD "FOOD AND FREEDOM" - "OUR FAMILY WILL GROW A VICTORY GARDEN IN 1942". 01:30:27 - CU WHITE TULIP IN FLOWER GARDEN. 01:30:32 - TREES BEGIN TO BLOOM IN SPRING 01:30:39 - FARMER PICKS UP SOIL IN HAND AS CHILDREN WATCH 01:30:44 - CU SQUEEZING HAND FULL OF SOIL. FLOW THROUGH FINGERS 01:30:45 - TEEN BOY GUIDES HORSE PULLING PLOW THROUGH SOIL 01:31:02 - CU GRANDPA'S HANDS CUTTING SEED POTATOES 01:31:07 - CU SACK OF SEED WITH BLUE TAG MAKING IT CERTIFIED. 01:31:17 - FARMER GUIDES HORSE & PLOW AWAY MAKING ROWS FOR POTATOES. 01:31:23 - FARMER USES SCOOP TO POUR POWDERED FERTILIZER ONTO PLOWED FIELD. 01:31:28 - BOY PLACES SEED POTATO INTO PLOWED GROOVE 01:31:37 - FARM BOY GUIDES HORSE AS DAD GUIDES PLOW COVERING SEED POTATOES THEY PLANTED. 01:32:10 - TEENS KNEEL ON GROUND TO MIX JAR OF SEED WITH MEASURED AMOUNT OF DISINFECTANT. LEVEL TEASPOON OF POWDER 01:32:15 - BOY SHAKES MIXTURE. 01:32:21 - GIRL PLACES SEEDS IN GROUND AS BOY COVERS SEEDS WITH HOE 01:32:32 - MOTHER PLANTS CABBAGE SEEDLINGS ALONG STRING LINE. 01:32:37 - CU FARM BOY ON KNEES PLANTING ROOTS DEEP. PRESSES SOIL FIRMLY AROUND SEEDLING. 01:32:42 - PLACES PIECE OF TAR PAPER AROUND ROOT TO PROTECT IT FROM MAGGOTS. 01:33:08 - BOY USES HOE TO MAKE GROOVE IN EARTH FOR LETTUCE CROP. 01:33:13 - WIFE MOVES ALONG ON KNEES & FILLS GROOVE WITH LETTUCE SEED. 01:33:18 - CU PACKAGE OF CARROT SEED POURED INTO PALM OF HAND. 01:33:23 - CU PACKAGE OF LARGER BEET SEED IS POURED FROM PACKAGE INTO HAND 01:33:28 - CU SPINACH SEED POURED INTO HAND 01:33:35 - CU COLORFUL PACKAGES OF VARIETY VEGETABLE SEEDS SCATTERED ON GROUND. 01:33:40 - CU FLOWERING PLUM TREES IN BLOOM. 01:33:45 - CU HAND RUNNING THROUGH BUCKET OF GOLDEN CORN KERNELS 01:33:50 - GIRL PLANTS CORN SEED IN GROUND. THEN BOY HOES THEM OVER WITH SOIL 01:34:21 - MONTAGE VARIOUS VIEWS ROWS OF VARIETY OF VEGETABLE PLANTS IN VICTORY GARDEN 01:34:26 - FARM BOY CULTIVATING PLANTS WITH HOE. 01:34:31 - CU FARM BOY PULLS PLANT OUT OF GROUND, EATS ROOT. 01:34:55 - TEENS PLANT TOMATO PLANTS 01:35:00 - CU PLANT IS PROTECTED BY PAPER TOWEL WRAPPED AROUND STEM HELD WITH PAPER CLIP 01:35:10 - PULLING SOIL AROUND BOTTOM OF PLANT. 01:35:18 - TEENS COLLABORATE IN PLANTING PEPPERS 01:35:23 - CU BOY POURS SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER ON EACH PLANT THEN PRESSES DIRT AROUND EACH PLANT. 01:35:44 - DAD HOES AS BOY PLANTS LIMA BEANS 01:36:15 - MAKING SPACE BETWEEN SWISS CHARD PLANTS 01:36:20 - CU BOY ON KNEES PULLS SMALL WEEDS AMID ROW OF CARROTS 01:36:31 - TEENS ON KNEES PLANTING CARROTS 01:36:36 - BOY USES "PANZER HOE" TO DIG UP WEEDS BETWEEN ROWS. 01:36:41 - CU PANZER HOE WITH SMALLER WHEEL IS CLEANING WEEDS IN ROWS. 01:36:46 - FARMER USES HORSE-DRAWN CULTIVATOR TO DO WEEDS FASTER 01:37:16 - SEED-PLANTING IMPLEMENT BEING USED. 01:37:23 - VARIOUS GARDEN INSECTS INCLUDING CABBAGE WORMS, BEETLES EATING AWAY AT PLANTS 01:37:28 - BOY FARMER SPRAYS POWDERED INSECTICIDE ON GARDEN PLANTS USING HAND SPRAYER. 01:37:33 - CU HOLES IN CABBAGE LEAFS AFTER BEING EATEN BY BUGS 01:37:38 - BOY SPRAYING GARDEN. 01:37:51 - CU WHITE BUTTERFLY (WORM) HOVERS OVER CABBAGE PLANT 01:37:56 - CU BOY FILLS SPRAYER WITH PRILITE DUST (DDT). 01:38:04 - SPRAYING DUST ON PLANTS 01:38:09 - CU WILTED CABBAGE PLANT (FUNGUS) IS PULLED & PRUNED WITH KNIFE 01:38:40 - VARIOUS INSECT INFESTATION ON PLANTS INCLUDING WORMS & BEETLES. 01:38:45 - CU BOY MIXING INGREDIENTS IN PAIL TO MAKE BORDEAUX INSECTICIDE FOR SPRAYING POTATOES 01:39:25 - FARMER POURS LIQUID INTO SPRAYER AS BOY HOLDS FUNNEL 01:39:30 - SPRAYING POTATO PLANTS 01:39:41 - GIRL ON HER KNEES PULLING PEAS FROM PLANT, FILLING BASKET. 01:39:53 - GIRL PULLING CABBAGE. 01:39:58 - MOM APPROACHES AS GIRL HANDS HER HUGE HEAD OF CABBAGE 01:40:15 - GIRL PULLS CARROTS. CUTS OFF STEM WITH KNIFE. 01:40:57 - CU BEAN LEAVES IN FARMER'S HAND SHOW DAMAGE DONE BY MEXICAN BEEN BEETLE. 01:41:02 - CU BEETLES ON PLANT. 01:41:07 - BOY DUSTS BEAN PLANTS WITH INSECTICIDE 01:41:12 - CU OTHER DISEASED PLANTS SHOWN BY FARMER. WILTED TOMATO BUSHES CAUSED BY FUNGUS 01:42:20 - FARMER'S HAND USING KNIFE TO CUT INTO DISEASED & HEALTHY PLANTS 01:42:35 - CU FARMER'S HANDS OPENS CORN STALK REVEALING CORN WORM. WORM FALLS INTO FARMER'S HAND 01:42:40 - CU EFFECTS OF OTHER CORN DISEASES & LEAF DISEASES 01:42:45 - CU DISEASED WATERMELON PLANT. 01:43:35 - CHICKEN OUTSIDE FENCED AREA WALKING AMID PLANTS. 01:43:40 - BOY CHASES IT & GRABS IT. PUTS IT BACK OVER FENCE. 01:44:00 - FARMER DIGS UP ROWS OF POTATOES WITH HORSE-DRAWN PLOW. 01:44:08 - TEENS PICK UP POTATOES. FILL UP BASKET. 01:44:13 - CU BOY HARVESTS BEETS & TOMATOES. 01:44:18 - MOTHER & GRANDMOTHER HARVEST TOMATOES. 01:45:00 - CU BASKET OF LARGE TOMATOES. 01:45:16 - CU VARIOUS VIEWS FARM BOY HARVESTING CORN, GREEN PEPPERS, SWISS CHARD. 01:46:13 - GRAPES ON VINE. 01:46:18 - OLD WOMAN PULLING TOMATOES OFF STAKED PLANTS. 01:46:40 - FARMER & CHILDREN DOING VARIETY OF CHORES IN GARDEN 01:47:08 - MONTAGE FARM FAMILIES HARVESTING VARIETY OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES FROM VICTORY GARDEN
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: PA-22