Third Winter Campaign of the Korean War. United States Army artillery crew fires heavy gun. A soldier watches enemies' action through binoculars. Another soldier stands nearby. U.S. soldiers patrol in snow covered area. Hot food is brought to the American troops at the front, where one soldier sits on a snow mound to eat.
Shows various activities and shops inside a Korean farmers market. Korean farmers bring in sacks of grains loaded on bullock carts.Grain-sacks being unloaded and then distributed. Fish is unloaded and displayed in a fish shop. View of a pottery and cloth shop. Bundles of cloth at display in the shop. Approximately 1947.
Shows part from a documentary titled "Korean Farming - An Oriental Epic' presented by the Harmon Foundation. Depicts Korean rice farming and a Korean peasant's life. Opening of the reel shows a huge statue of Lord Buddha. Shows a Korean rice farmer Kim,his wife washing clothes at river bed,his young son and their Asiatic bull Abdul. A high altitude view of Kim's village and scattered paddy farms. Korean farmers adopt intensive methods of farming like Contour-Mapping. Individual holdings are small.
Korean farmers operate a 5-men shovel to repair their rice field. In the month of March farmers usually repair their rice fields afflicted by winter rains and snow.
Shows Korean farmers cutting dry land to the water level in a rice paddy field. Farmers work in pairs and pull a leveler-device with ropes to cut the land.
Shows scenes of denuded hills that are eroded by summer storms. The eroded sand buries the paddy farms. Korean farmers remove sand from the buried rice fields by using shovels, Ox-driven harrows and other tools.