- Title: VM-1435A
- Summary: TO CONSERVE OUR HERITAGE: 1950s CONSERVATION. NATURAL DISASTERS, MAN MADE DISASTERS. MISUSE OF LAND.
- Description:00:01:35 - COUNTRY BOY WALKS UP HILL TO SHOW HIS FARMER FATHER THE FISH HE CAUGHT. BAMBOO FISHING POLE. RED BARN & FARM BUILDINGS IN BKGD. PROUD BOY SHOWS OFF HIS CATCH. COON VALLEY 00:01:56 - FARMER AND HIS SON WALK TOWARD RED BARN 00:02:11 - SCENIC MOUNTAINS, LAKE MAN TAKING IN THE BEAUTY 00:02:18 - SCENIC MOUNTAINS, FLOWERS 00:02:24 - NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAINS, LS CHURCH SPIRE, SMALL TOWN 00:02:29 - MID-WESTERN FARM, FARM BUILDINGS 00:02:34 - RED BARN, FARM BUILDINGS 00:02:38 - THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICA. TILT UP BOARDED UP FALLING DOWN, NEGLECTED HOME. BONEY MALNOURISHED COW FORAGES FOR FOOD. POVERTY. 00:02:44 - MUDDY RIVER FILLED WITH TOPSIDE 00:02:48 - AERIAL OVER FLOODED FARM, BUILDINGS SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATERS NATURAL DISASTERS 00:02:51 - WRECKED HOMES DUE TO FLOODS DEBRIS STREWN ACROSS FRONT YARD 00:02:54 - GUTTED LOWLANDS, HILLS WITH BIG GASHES IN THEM DUE TO OVERUSE OF THE UPLANDS 00:02:58 - PAN WHATS LEFT OF A FOREST AFTER MUD SLIDES ?? 00:03:05 - YOUNG BOYS WALKING ON NICE HEALTHY FARM WITH RED BARN 00:03:18 - OCEAN WAVES BREAKING AT THE SHORE, CLIFFS IN BKGD. WEST COAST PACIFIC OCEAN. WAVES CRASHING ON ROCKY SHORE 00:03:36 - BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS, FOREST IN FRGD. SCENIC NATURE SHOTS PAN FOREST OF PINE AND FIR 00:03:48 - PAN PRAIRIE GRASSES, BIG WHITE FLUFFY CLOUDS 00:03:58 - BUFFALO OR BISON GRAZING ON MOUNTAINSIDE 00:04:01 - MONTAGE MOUNTAINS, LAKES. SCENIC NATURE SHOTS 00:04:09 - ROCKY COAST, OCEAN. WAVES BREAKING ON BOULDERS 00:04:27 - SCENIC LAKE, MOUNTAINS 00:04:30 - SCENIC MOUNTAIN STREAM. SCENIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPES 00:04:36 - BISON GRAZING IN THE MOUNTAINS. WILDLIFE IN NATURAL HABITAT 00:04:45 - ANTELOPE ROAMING THE PLAINS 00:04:47 - DEER LEAPING THROUGH THE FOREST 00:04:49 - MOOSE WADES THROUGH FOREST LAKE OR RIVER. 00:04:51 - BLACK BEAR WANDERS THROUGH THE WOODS 00:04:55 - 4 BIG HORNED SHEEP IN THE MOUNTAINS 00:04:57 - BEAVER IN A STREAM 00:05:00 - A GAGGLE OF GEESE SWARM IN THE MARSH. FLOCK OF GEESE 00:05:13 - OIL FIELD, DERRICKS. MINING. INDUSTRY, SIDE OF MOUNTAIN STRIPPED BARE. STRIP MINING. HS COAL CAR FREIGHT TRAIN MOVING DOWN STRIPPED, BARE MOUNTAINSIDE 00:05:26 - PROSPECTOR PANS FOR GOLD IN A STREAM 00:05:33 - SIDE OF HILL SHOWING GOOD RICH TOPSOIL 00:05:38 - LS FARM, FARMER ON TRACTOR 00:05:41 - FARMER AND HIS SON IN HEALTHY FIELDS, FARMER CHECKING GRAINS BOY WAIST DEEP IN WHEAT 00:05:46 - NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS AT THEIR VILLAGE, TEEPEES. DRESSED IN INDIAN HEADDRESSES AND NATIVE COSTUME IN THE FOREST 00:05:57 - LS CANYON CLIFF DWELLINGS 00:06:01 - CU AXE COPPING AT A TREE CHOPPING DOWN TREES 00:06:06 - OLD FARMING IMPLEMENTS, OLD WOODEN TRACTOR WHEELS 00:06:11 - MONTAGE TRAINS SHOWING IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAINS, TRAIN APPROACHES MOVING LEFT TO RIGHT. STEAM TRAIN. MODERN TRAIN 00:06:18 - FORESTRY. LUMBER INDUSTRY, LUMBERJACKS CHOPPING DOWN TREES 00:06:19 - INDUSTRIAL MONTAGE. MINING LAND. INDUSTRIAL FACTORY, STEEL STACKS. 00:06:25 - 1950s BOAT IN NEW YORK HARBOR 00:06:29 - BOSTON, CIRCA 1950s OLD STATE HOUSE 00:06:33 - 1950s CARS IN WASHINGTON, DC. MONUMENT 00:06:36 - MONTAGE NEW YORK CITY, LS SKYLINE FROM WATER. HS SKYLINE. STREET SCENE. DOUBLE DECKER BUSSES. CROWDED STREET 00:06:53 - CITY DWELLERS SHOP AT SIDEWALK FRUIT AND PRODUCE SHOP 00:06:57 - FARMER ON TRACTOR HARVESTING FIELDS 00:07:03 - PAN DOWN HILLSIDE WITH DEAD TREES. RAVAGED SOIL, RAINWATER ABLE TO FLOW WITH A RUSH WASHED AWAY UNPROTECTED SOIL 00:07:14 - MAN MADE DISASTERS. POLLUTED RIVER 00:07:17 - BOY WALKS TOWARD FARMHOUSE PAST RUINED LANDS 00:07:28 - TILT UP TALL TREES. PAN FOREST BIG TREES. 00:07:47 - CU AXE CHOPS INTO TREE CHOPPING DOWN TREES 00:07:53 - HORSE PULLS TILLER, YOUNG BOY WORKING ON THE FARM 00:07:59 - 1950s FARMER ON TRACTOR TILLING THE SOIL 00:08:07 - HEALTHY FARM CROPS 00:08:10 - STEEP, HILLY LAND USED TO GROW CROPS. UPSETTING NATURE 00:08:18 - FOREST LAND REDUCED TO TREE STUMPS, DEFORESTATION 00:08:22 - HILLSIDE, DEAD TREES, UNPROTECTED SOIL WASHED AWAY. MAN MADE DISASTERS 00:08:32 - INDUSTRY. LUMBER MILL. HUGE PILE OF CUT DOWN TREES 00:08:47 - 1950s CONSTRUCTION CREW BUILDING A HOUSE 00:08:51 - LUMBER USES. BRAND NEW RURAL WOODEN PICKET FENCE 00:08:54 - BOY AND TWO MEN ROW OUT IN A LAKE. ROWBOAT 00:08:56 - 1950s MAGAZINES ON DISPLAY. CHEESY 1950s ROMANCE MAGAZINES WITH NAMES LIKE LOVE, ROMANCE AND SWEETHEART 00:08:59 - SMALL TOWN BASEBALL GAME, BATTER HITS THE BALL, RUNS TO FIRST BASE. SPECTATORS IN BLEACHERS 00:09:04 - LUMBER JACKS CUTTING DOWN TREE WITH HUGE CHAIN-SAW. MASSIVE TREE FALLS. LUMBER INDUSTRY. CU TREE FALLING WHERE IT'S BEEN CUT. FOREMAN AND WORKER WATCH AS TREE FALLS 00:09:29 - HEAVY MACHINE TOWS MASSIVE CUT TREES OUT OF THE FOREST & ONTO BACK OF FLATBED LUMBER TRUCK 00:09:59 - HS HEALTHY FOREST 00:10:06 - HS FOREST OF DOUGLAS FIR TREES, PATCHES OF THE FOREST CUT CLEAN 00:10:21 - PAN ACRES OF GRASSLAND 00:10:35 - BISON GRAZING IN GRASSLAND 00:10:42 - HEALTHY GRASSLANDS 00:10:50 - MONTAGE BODIES OF WATER CLEAR MOUNTAIN STREAM, RIVER 00:11:06 - CATTLE AND SHEEP GRAZING IN GRASSLANDS 00:11:19 - WESTERN RANGE WITH SAGEBRUSH AND GRASS. 00:11:30 - MONTAGE RIVERS, YELLOWSTONE RIVER, CANNONBALL RIVER. POWDER RIVER. MISSOURI RIVER "THE BIG MUDDY" RIVERS LOADED WITH SILT. MAN MADE DISASTERS. TOPSOIL IN RIVERS 00:12:02 - GRAFTON, UTAH. 1950s. MOUNTAIN RIVER. NOW A GHOST TOWN. RUINED UPLANDS DUE TO OVERGRAZING. POOR GRASS ON THE RANGE RUTS DOWNHILL FROM WATER. GREAT GULLIES CARVED OUT OF THE LAND. 00:13:14 - MAN JUMPS ACROSS GULLY 00:13:19 - HUGE GULLY, RIVER CHOKED WITH SILT. TOPSOIL. MAN MADE DISASTERS. 00:13:33 - MAN STANDS BESIDE A GULLY NEXT TO GRAVEYARD 00:13:40 - HUGE STONE MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF A SETTLER KILLED BY INDIANS. CU GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTION. 00:13:49 - GRAFTON, UTAH. 1950s GHOST TOWN. ABANDONED HOMES. FARMING IMPLEMENTS 00:14:11 - PAN MOUNTAINS, FOREST IN FRGD 00:14:23 - PAN GRASSLAND 00:14:36 - FARMER IN THIGH DEEP WHEAT FIELDS 00:14:39 - ROW OF HUGE SILVER SILOS GRAIN STORAGE TANKS 00:14:42 - CU CROPS, BOXES OF TOMATOES, STRAWBERRIES. GRAPES 00:14:50 - FARMER HARVESTING CROPS, FIELDS 00:15:00 - PAN LAND RUINED BY OVERUSE, TOPSOIL BLOWN AWAY 00:15:19 - OVERUSED LAND, STONES LEFT BEHIND, TOPSOIL CARRIED AWAY. MAN INSPECTS MUDDY LOWLANDS 00:15:31 - HILLIER LAND WITH GAPING GULLY FROM WATER DOWNPOUR 00:15:39 - STRUCTURES BUILT FOR EROSION CONTROL. PORCH VINE USED AS PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR EROSION CONTROL. VINES. KUDZU USED AS A SOIL BINDER AND SOIL BUILDER 00:16:20 - CU MAN'S HANDS FULL OF SOIL RUNNING SOIL THROUGH HIS HANDS 00:16:27 - FIELD PLANTED ON A SLOPE, EVERY FURROW WITH A GUTTER TO HASTEN WATER DOWN HILL. 00:16:35 - FARMER CULTIVATING HILLY LAND 00:16:48 - PAN FARMLAND WITH SLOPES PLANTED IN STRIPS. ROWS OF ALTERNATED CROPS 00:17:00 - FARM FIELDS LAID OUT IN CONTOURS, CONTOUR LINES OF UNEVEN TERRAIN TO LIMIT EROSION OF TOPSOIL. PLOW ACROSS THE SLOPE RATHER THAN UP AND DOWN 00:17:16 - FARMER ON 1950s FARM TILLER 00:17:27 - FARMERS LOOKING AT TERRACE TO STOP EROSION 00:17:39 - GRASSED WATERWAYS THROUGH FARMLAND HELP AGAINST EROSION 00:17:52 - PAN FIELDS WITH SHEET EROSION, TOPSOIL PEELED AWAY IN SMALL LAYERS UNTIL ALL TOPSOIL IS GONE 00:18:08 - FARM WINDMILL. 00:18:14 - LIMA, OHIO WITH TORNADO AFTERMATH. WRECKED HOMES. NATURAL DISASTERS 00:18:24 - POST-TORNADO WIND DAMAGED FARM FIELDS. TOPSOIL BEING BLOWN FROM FIELDS. DUST STORM. DUST BOWL 00:18:47 - COVER CROPS CRIMSON CLOVER AND WINTER RYE USED AS PROTECTION 00:19:08 - HIGH PAN FARM FIELDS, ROLLING COUNTRYSIDE WITH CURVED STRIPS OF ALTERNATING GRASS AND SOIL 00:19:51 - BISON GRAZING IN A MOUNTAIN FIELD. WILDLIFE. ANTELOPE. DEER 00:20:11 - HUNTERS HIDING IN FIELDS WITH GUNS. HUNTING. CU HUNTER COCKS AND SHOOTS HIS GUN IN RAPID SUCCESSION 00:20:18 - HUNTER ROWS HIS SMALL ROWBOAT FILLED WITH FOUL, DUCK HUNTING 00:20:25 - REENACTMENT OF SETTLERS PLOWING THEIR FIELDS WITH HORSE-DRAWN PLOW 00:20:36 - PAN BISON GRAZING IN FIELD. HUGE ANIMALS. WILDLIFE 00:20:46 - CU WILD TURKEY IN GRASSLAND 00:20:51 - MOOSE DRINK FROM MOUNTAIN STREAM, SCENIC MOUNTAINS IN BKGD 00:21:05 - GAGGLE OF GEESE, FLOCK OF BIRDS OVERHEAD 00:21:20 - RUSTIC SIGNS "US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FISH AND WILDLIFE NATIONAL BISON RANGE". "NATIONAL WILDLIFE" 00:21:28 - SCENIC MARSHES, MOUNTAINS IN BKGD 00:21:43 - WILDLIFE SANCTUARY IN THE MOUNTAINS 00:21:47 - BLACK LAB BRINGS YOUNG HUNTER DEAD BIRD, YOUNG HUNTER HOLDS IT UP. HUNTING DOGS. 00:21:55 - TWO 1950s HUNTERS PICK UP DEAD GEESE AFTER A SUCCESSFUL DAY OF HUNTING 00:22:01 - CU GEEKY 1950s BIRD WATCHER LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS 00:22:05 - WATER BIRDS AND THEIR REFLECTIONS 00:22:20 - MONTAGE BIRDS, UPLAND GAME BIRD, SMALL SONG BIRD IN A TREE. CU MOTHER BIRD FEEDS HER YOUNG CHICKS. CU SMALL BIRD WITH A WORM IN ITS MOUTH PERCHED ON A BIRDHOUSE. FLOCK FLIES OVERHEAD. 00:23:08 - MONTAGE WATER SOURCES. WATERFALLS. MOUNTAIN STREAMS. COWS GRAZE BESIDE STREAM. YOUNG BOY WATCHES BIG SHIP. DAM. WATER FOR IRRIGATION. GEESE ON THE WATER. LAWN SPRINKLER. COUPLE IN ROW BOAT ON A LAKE 00:23:43 - BOY WASHES THE FAMILY CAR. 1950s CAR 00:23:48 - CU RINSING OUT GLASS IN THE KITCHEN SINK 00:23:52 - CU MOUNTAIN BROOK BECOMES A RIVER 00:24:12 - MAN DRINKS FROM MOUNTAIN STREAM. FRESH WATER 00:24:15 - BOY SITS ON BANK FISHING 00:24:17 - BOYS POP UP FROM UNDER WATER, SWIMMING IN MOUNTAIN RIVER SPLASH EACH OTHER PLAYFULLY 00:24:22 - FATHER AND YOUNG SON SIT ON THE BANK OF MOUNTAIN RIVER 00:24:27 - RIVERSIDE MILL. POLLUTED WATER BELOW MILL. INDUSTRIAL WASTE, GARBAGE AND REFUSE IN THE RIVER. MAN MADE DISASTERS 00:25:14 - SCENIC BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS, MARSHES 00:25:29 - PAN UP DITCH WITH WATER RUNNING DOWN. MANMADE DITCHES TO HURRY THE WATER TO THE SEA. SMALL DITCH AND BIG DITCH. DRAINAGE 00:25:42 - MARSHES DESTROYED. FLOODED CORN FIELDS. 00:25:57 - WORKERS RE-FLOODING MARSH THAT HAD BEEN DRAINED. TRYING TO RIGHT A WRONG 00:26:10 - DRIED UP MARSH, FARM BUILDINGS IN BKGD 00:26:11 - 5 IRRIGATION DITCH 00:26:20 - WORKERS BUILDING A LEVEE 00:26:25 - POV ON TOP OF HIGH DAM LOOKING DOWN INTO VALLEY 00:26:33 - SPRING THAW, WATER RUNNING DOWNHILL 00:26:37 - 1950s TRAFFIC IN TOWN DURING A RAINFALL 00:26:39 - MUDDY FLOOD WATERS. FLOODED TRAIN TRACKS. FLOOD WATERS RUSHING VIOLENTLY THROUGH THE FOREST. HOUSE SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATERS. MEN DRIVE SMALL MOTOR BOAT THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. E. FIRST STREET HOMES UNDER FLOOD WATERS. TRUCK SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATERS 00:26:57 - BLACK LAB DOG STRUGGLES THROUGH DEBRIS AND FLOOD WATERS 00:27:02 - FLOOD VICTIMS ENTER RED CROSS BUILDING 00:27:07 - FLOOD AFTERMATH. HOMES REDUCED TO RUBBLE PILES. HOUSE TORN FROM FOUNDATION LEANING. TREES TORN FROM THE ROOTS. FARM MACHINERY IN MUD AND WATER. INTERIOR OF HOME DESTROYED BY FLOODS 00:27:32 - PAN HILLS STRIPPED OF FOREST COVER FROM FOREST FIRE, DEAD TREES. 00:27:45 - BARE CHESTED MEN PLANTING TREE SEEDLINGS REFORESTATION 00:27:53 - CATTLE CRAZING 00:27:56 - MEN WALK ACROSS RE-SEEDED SLOPE 00:28:02 - HS CONTOUR FARMING, SERIES OF TINY DAMS HOLDS BACK THE RUNOFF 00:28:20 - FARM IRRIGATION DITCH 00:28:26 - TRACTORS, MACHINERY LEVELLING LAND 00:28:31 - MONTAGE SMALL FARM DAMS, 00:28:38 - MONTAGE LARGE DAMS 00:28:53 - AERIAL OVER FLOODED TOWN AND FARMS 00:29:14 - MONTAGE NATIONAL PARKS, CU SIGNS "WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST" "LINCOLN NATIONAL FOREST" "BIGHORN NATIONAL FOREST" "ROGUE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST" "SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST" 00:29:33 - PAN UP REDWOOD TREES OR SEQUIOAS 00:29:51 - PAN HUGE NATIONAL FOREST 00:30:03 - WATER BEING ABSORBED BY TREES AND GRASSES. FOREST WATERFALL. 00:30:30 - PAN SCENIC NATIONAL FOREST WITH ANIMALS GRAZING. CATTLE AND SHEEP 00:30:50 - CU BROWN BEAR. WILDLIFE IN NATURAL HABITAT 00:30:54 - GAME ANIMALS. MOOSE WITH A BIG RACK 00:31:01 - FISHERMAN FISHES IN MOUNTAIN STREAM 00:31:09 - SCENIC MOUNTAINS, NATIONAL FOREST 00:31:15 - MAN ROWS IN CANOE ON MOUNTAIN LAKE 00:31:22 - MAN CAMPING IN NATIONAL FOREST. SMALL TENT LAKESIDE 00:31:29 - 1950s FAMILY CAMPING. MEN SETTING UP TENTS, KIDS RUNNING AROUND 00:31:40 - GEYSER SPEWING AT YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. OLD FAITHFUL 00:31:58 - WOMAN SITS ON A ROCK TAKING IN THE BEAUTY 00:32:03 - MONTAGE NATIONAL PARKS CIRCA 1950s "PRIMEVAL AMERICA" 00:32:29 - MONTAGE MOUNTAIN PARKS, GLACIAL, GRAND TETON. BOY LOOKS THROUGH TELESCOPE AT VERNIER PARK. 00:32:40 - MONTAGE CANYON PARKS, HORSEBACK RIDERS IN GRAND CANYON PARK ZION CANYON, BRYCE CANYON 00:32:49 - SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK. 00:32:53 - YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. WATERFALL 00:32:58 - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK. COASTAL PARK 00:33:01 - GREAT SMOKEY NATIONAL PARK 00:33:03 - 1950s MAN WEARS CHECKERED FLANNEL SHIRT AND TAKES A PHOTOGRAPH 00:33:15 - 1950s CARS ENTER "CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK" CARS PARKED. PEOPLE TAKING IN THE SCENERY. CARS WAIT FOR DEER TO CROSS ROAD. FAMILY WATCHES BEAR CUB FROM THE SAFETY OF THEIR CAR. 00:33:38 - GROUP OF HIKERS IN NATIONAL PARK 00:33:45 - LONE HIKER SEEKING SOLITUDE 00:33:51 - HORSEBACK RIDERS ON TRAILS 00:33:56 - GROUP OF HIKERS SCALE MOUNTAIN. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS 00:34:00 - PAN NATIONAL PARK 00:34:21 - CU BOY WEARS WISCONSIN 4-H CLUB T-SHIRT AND TOSSES BASEBALL INTO HIS BASEBALL GLOVE. 00:34:26 - BOY HOLDS TWO BASEBALL BATS 00:34:31 - TWO COUNTRY BOYS WALKING ON THE FARM 00:34:38 - BOY WITH HIS FARMER FATHER IN CRAIN FIELDS UP TO THE BOY'S WAIST. AMERICAN HEARTLAND 00:34:51 - THRESHER IN GRAIN FIELDS HARVESTING CROPS 00:35:14 - LS FARM BUILDINGS PAINTED RED 00:35:18 - BARE-CHESTED BOY WITH JEANS ROLLED UP AND BAREFOOT WALKS ON DIRT ROAD TOWARD FARM. WALKING HOME FROM FISHING, CARRIES FISHING POLE AND BUCKET
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1435A