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German commander of the Luftwaffe General Hermann Goering discusses the invasion of Poland.

German commander of the Luftwaffe General Hermann Goering discusses the invasion of Poland. Various planes of the Luftwaffe, alone and in formation above the clouds. Planes fly over a river.

Location: Germany
Date: 1939, September
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675020757
Farmers discuss problems of the land including soil erosion and poverty in United States during Great Depression.

Opening view is in Pennsylvania: Farm houses, smoke from a chimney. Fences around barns. A farmer with his wife and child walks in a field. Haystacks in the field. The family moves towards the houses. Barren trees around the houses. Damaged and abandoned stone houses. Men and women farmers with children standing and seated on benches together outside a meeting area. Farmers discuss the problems of the eroded land during a meeting. Eroded fields due to loss of soil in Dust Bowl. Farmers walk through the eroded fields. Sun rays through the clouds. Tennessee: Dry land and dry rivers. Rain washes away the soil. Hills bare of trees and grass. Devastated salt like patches of soil with deep fissures and evidence of massive erosion.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021568
African American men, women and children pick cotton in fields, Southern United States.

Southern United States: Eroded land, barren fields during the Great Depression. An African American farmer woman dries clothes on a line in a cotton field. Loss of soil from fields in dust bowl. A young African American boy, men and women farmers pick cotton. Dilapidated farm houses, shacks, and falling down houses and huts. A poor African American woman with her children. A sign reads 'Prepare to Meet God'.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021569
Young girls at a farm house or dilapidated plantation house in the southern United States.

Farm houses and former grand plantation houses, now in disrepair, seen among trees during time of poverty in Great Depression. A clothes line outside a house. Entrance to a house with large columns. Plaster and paint have peeled from the columns revealing the bricks. Young girls stand by a pillar at the entrance. Eroded land near an abandoned house.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021570
Continued struggle after Dust Bowl: Winds blow away top soil; Desperate migrant farmers during Great Depression

U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary depicts how rural America used machines to achieve production at a terrible cost to the land and people including erosion and poverty. The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Top soil is blown away in a storm. Barren land. Soil washed into the Arkansas River. Layers of soil in the river. Wasted land and rivers due to sheet erosion. Soil destruction, barren land and farms. Texas: A town called "Go Forth" or "Goforth" founded by cotton farmers long ago. Abandoned houses, damaged roads, and unemployed desperate farmers are seen. Emaciated cows search for food. On the edge of the town, migrant landless farmers sit by a fire near a car. Rains and water erode the soil. A sign in a barren eroded patch reads 'Abernathy Furniture Co.'. The wind blows away the top soil.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021572
A poor migrant farming family packs up their belongings and moves westward in the United States.

A poverty stricken migrant farming family lives in make shift shelters and tent camps during the Great Depression in the United States. A girl sleeps in a tent while a woman washes utensils nearby. A man and a young boy cook food on a stove. An unemployed family lives in a trailer. The man with his wife and children. The woman with her children. The man loads their belongings into a horse wagon. A young boy near his bicycle. Other farmers watch as the family gets on and they begin their journey westward.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021573
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