- Title: V-4811
- Summary: THE LAND: THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW RURAL AMERICA USED MACHINES TO ACHIEVE AN UNBELIEVABLE PRODUCTION - BUT AT A TERRIBLE COST TO LAND AND TO PEOPLE THROUGH THE WASTE OF EROSION AND POVERTY. DUSTBOWL. GREAT DEPRESSION.
- Description:17:09:34 - PAN STONE FARMHOUSE FARM BUILDINGS BARNS 17:10:08 - FARMER CARRIES PITCHFORK OVER SHOULDER WALKS WITH WIFE WHO CARRIES YOUNG SON. FARMER AND HIS FAMILY WALKING ON FARMLAND 17:10:24 - WS FARMLAND, FENCES. PAN HAYSTACKS IN FIELD. TREES. 17:10:34 - CU 1940s FARM FAMILY CHUBBY BABY 17:10:38 - PAN 1940s FARM BUILDINGS STONE FARMHOUSE 17:10:48 - FARMER AND WIFE WALKING FARMER WITH PITCHFORK OVER SHOULDER ADMIRING WHAT IS THEIR'S. PENNSYLVANIA FARMLAND 17:11:20 - FARM BUILDINGS STONE HOUSE, WOODEN BARNS CIRCA 1940s 17:11:52 - PAN 1940s FARM FOLKS. FARMERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. LITTLE RED WAGON. PENNSYLVANIA. OLD AND YOUNG REPRESENTED. POST WORLD WAR TWO WWII 17:12:10 - FARMERS MEET AND TALK OVER PROBLEMS OF THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 17:12:30 - LOTS OF PEOPLE WALKING ON FARM WITH SOIL LOSS. EROSION. BIG PATCHES OF GRASS MISSING LOOKS LIKE A GOLF COURSE OR SAND DUNES FARMERS SIT LINED UP 17:12:59 - OVERCAST SKY. RAINY SKY. RAIN STORM 17:13:14 - WATER TRICKLING DOWN GRADUALLY BECOMES A TORRENT WASH OF RAIN 17:13:31 - MOUNTAIN AND LAND WITH RESULTING EROSION PATCHES OF SOIL 17:14:50 - PRAIRIE HOUSEWIFE HANGS LAUNDRY ON LAUNDRY LINE STRUNG IN MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITH WILDPLANTS 17:14:54 - PAN FARMLAND LOST TO EROSION. ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS. NATURAL DISASTERS. 17:15:14 - 1940s COTTON PLANTATION WORKERS PICKING COTTON BLACK MIGRANT WORKERS. SHARECROPPERS 17:15:20 - POV PASSING ABANDONED RUN DOWN FARM BUILDINGS. BOARDED UP BUILDINGS. WILD FLOWERS GROWING OVERGROWN FIELDS. POVERTY 17:15:42 - SHARECROPPER'S CHILDREN WANDER AROUND RUN DOWN BUILDINGS. CU SIGN POSTED "PREPARE TO MEET GOD". BLACK SHARECROPPER MOTHER AND CHILDREN POSE IN FIELD. MIGRANT WORKERS. RURAL SOUTHERN BLACK FAMILY. AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHER AND CHILDREN CIRCA 1940s 17:15:55 - VARIOUS ANGLES OF RUN DOWN PLANTATION HOUSE. LAUNDRY HANGING ON CLOTHES LINE. POVERTY. TILT DOWN TO POOR WHITE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ON FRONT PORCH. 17:16:22 - FARM LAND LOST TO SOIL EROSION. RUN DOWN PLANTATION HOUSE IN B/G 17:16:34 - OLD BLACK MAN LIVING IN RUN DOWN HOUSE OPENS LARGE FRONT DOORS POOR SOUTHERN RURAL BLACKS IN POST WWII AMERICA. OLD MAN SLOWLY CLIMBS UP AND DUSTS LARGE BELL WITH HIS HAT. PROUD. OLD MAN RINGS BIG BELL IN HIS YARD. CALLING IN THE WORKERS OUT OF THE FIELDS FOR DINNER 17:17:34 - RUN DOWN BOARDED UP FARM HOUSE. OLD BLACK MAN LOOKS AROUND. "WHERE HAVE THEY ALL GONE?" ABANDONED FARM 17:17:46 - CHICKEN ROOSTER WALKS AROUND PORCH OF FARMHOUSE. CHICKENS IN FARMYARD. 17:18:00 - OLD BLACK MAN CLIMBS DOWN FROM BELL AND WALKS BACK TO RUN DOWN HOUSE. POVERTY IN AMERICA. CLOSES BIG FRONT DOORS. GLASS MISSING FROM WINDWON PANES 17:18:40 - DUSTY TOP SOIL BLOWN AWAY DUST STORM TUMBLEWEEDS FARMLAND LOST TO DUST BOWSL. NATURAL DISASTERS. 17:19:37 - SHEET EROSION GRADUAL WASTING OF LAND LAND WITH SOIL EROSION LAND RENDERED USELESS FOR FARMING BY NATURAL CAUSES 17:20:17 - ABANDONED FARM. LEAN-TO SHACKS. ABANDONED COTTON TOWN. "IT DIED WITH THE SOIL" BONEY UNDERNURISHED COW GRAZINBG. MALNUTRITION. ABANDONED FARM EQUIPMENT. GHOST TOWN. 17:20:50 - LANDLESS MIGRANTS WHITE MIGRANT FAMILY AROUND ROADSIDE CAMPFIRE. IN FRONT OF CAR. POOR MIGRANT WORKERS, GYPSY WAGON HOME. THEY HAVE FIRE BUT NO FOOD. DUST BOWL VICTIMS CIRCA 1940s 17:21:15 - BONEY MALNURISHED COW LOOKS AT CAMERA 17:21:16 - MIGRANT FAMILY WARMS AROUND CAMPFIRE OPEN FIRE WHILE NEAR STARVES COW STAGGERS AROUND. 17:21:28 - WATER RUNS DOWN HILLSIDE CAUSING SOIL EROSION. TILT UP ERODED HILL SIDE 17:21:55 - MONTAGE ABANDONED TOWN. SIGNS POSTED FOR HOTEL AND CAFE ABERNATHY FURNITURE COMPANY. 17:21:59 - SWIRLING DUST BLOWN ACROSS WASTELAND, SHEET EROSION. 17:22:17 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: V-4811