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Scenes of Apulia, in Southern Italy.

Women and girls sit and work at numerous tables where they crack nuts and shell almonds for meager wages. They sing sad songs as they work. A group of men with farm tools pass by a hill side. An accordion player leads the group. They are itinerant farm laborers of the region.

Location: Apulia Italy

Date: 1950

Duration: 2 min 44 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

The saga of water in Apulia, Italy: Scarcity and floods

Statue of the Roman poet, Horace, who wrote of the scarcity of water in Apulia. Villagers drawing water from a communal well. A woman waters crop from a bucket. Villagers gather as officials open tap of new water supply provided with help from America. The supply comes from a 700 mile aquaduct that brings water across the Appenine mountains from other side of Italy. Scenes of Apulia inundated by flood waters during two months of rainy season. Men at work building dikes to control flooding.

Location: Apulia Italy

Date: 1950

Duration: 2 min 53 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Attempts to reclaim salt marshes for cultivation in Apulia, Italy.

Views of unusable salt marshes in Apulia, Italy. All able bodied men of the region band together in valiant effort to drain and reclaim salt march land for cultivation. They commence the effort in a procession led by local Priest to invoke God's blessing on the endeavor. Church bell rings in the village. They succeed with their hand tools, and cultivate the reclaimed land. But heavy rains destroy their efforts and the salt marshes return. Now, they try again, with aid of heavy equipment: tractors, and bulldozers, that can do more than simple hand tools.

Location: Apulia Italy

Date: 1950

Duration: 4 min 59 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English