"Down On the Farm" - The Great Depression & Dust Bowl to 1970s Modern Farming Techniques

VIDEO HERE  (15:21 minutes)

This black & white educational film "Down on the Farm: America's Agricultural Revolution" is about how the farming industry hit rough times during the Great Depression but then rebounded.  

Opening Title:The Screen News Digest, sponsored by Kodak. A boy uses a Kodak Super 8mm camera, Niagara Falls. A person skis. Underwater coral reef. A flower. A boy uses a Super 8mm film projector. A man plows a field. Title: DOWN ON THE FARM, Americas Agricultural Revolution (:08-1:36). A farmer in a barn with a cow. Milk is poured into a pail. A boy brings in wood, his mother takes some and cooks on a wood burning stove. She opens a pot. A pail of water is poured into a bigger bin. A boy carries a gas lamp. The woman washes laundry. Cars in the big city. Lots of people and cars. Men punch in for work. The assembly line, car engines move along. A car is constructed. Cars drive off the line. Charles Lindbergh and his single engine, high wing monoplane - Spirit of St. Louis. The plane flies into the sky. A ticker tape parade in NYC for Charles Lindbergh (1:37-3:33). Newspaper headline: Depression Cripples U.S. A man carries an unemployed sign. Men seek work. Men on benches. FDR becomes President in early 1933. Depression worsens, men in tent communities. Children and women in a  makeshift shelter. A child drinks soup from a ladle. A man uses a sledgehammer. A man and his wife sit and talk about why they live on the highway. A man and his family load up the family car. Cows on a farm (3:34-5:46). Farmers had no one to sell to and had to give up the farms. Two vehicles full of a family drive off from the farm. Sun over farmland. A dust storm sweeps across farmland. A family walks during the dust storm. Dust is piled up. Cows walk amongst the dust, they paw at the dirt (5:47-7:05). A man walks amongst the dirt. A brutal sun high above. Farmers talk about the conditions. A wheel sits idle. A wire fence. Effects of the dust bowl. Construction is done near farmland to create waterways for them. A new dam, water flows from the dam. A man climbs a pole. Electricity on the farm. A woman has an electric washing machine, a running sink, a radio. Tractors on the farm lands (7:06-9:20). December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. A ship is attacked and explodes. Draft has begun. Men in uniform, a man eats a donut. Servicemen assist farmers during crop time due to a lack of help. Servicemen carry boxes. Soldiers wade through water, WW2. Japanese surrender. G.I.s come home, a parade. Aerial shot of suburban homes. Great growth for the American economy. A reaper machine moves through the fields. Tractors help farm crops (9:21-11:26). Chickens in cages on the farm. A shelf of eggs. Eggs move down a conveyor belt. Shelves of eggs. Baby chicks. A chicken hatches from an egg. Turkeys. A man shaves a sheep. A girl cleans a cow an other youngsters clean farm animals. Cows are shown to a crowd. A farmer leaves his home. He uses buttons and electricity. Feed is blended with a push of a button (11:27-13:59). Cows eat their feed. A tractor goes through a field. Crops are gathered. Chickens in cages. Baby pigs seek food. Cows in a barn, sheep. A dam flows (14:00-15:03). End credit says Kodak only (15:04-15:11).