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World War 2 war material production and farmers increase production of wheat, corn, and vegetable oil crops in the U.S.

Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War II, in the United States. Houses and trees on a farm. Chickens roam in front. Night time battle scenes during World War 2 with smoke, bombs, and tracers. Men work in war material and munitions factories for the manufacturing and production of war tools and equipment. Molten steel poured in molds. A sign, "Defense Plant. Part of the Aresenal of Democracy." Cattle graze on the farm. Recruited and Mobilized United States soldiers march on streets of a town in America. Farmer supervises a grain processing machine in a field. Farmer works on a red Allis-Chalmers tractor. Wheat combine harvester in a field. Corn being harvested in a field. A soybean field and a farmer holds up a soybean plan. A rotating display shows harvested oils and their uses such as heavy soy oil for brake linings, soy flake flour, soy cake coatings and uses in auto parts. Tractor with attachment being used to harvest soybeans.Farmer on tractor on the farm. 'Lake County Oil Mill' written on an oil tank in Tiptonville Tennessee. Rotating display of bottled and canned linseed oil products including oil and paints for painting war equipment. Farmer on tractor harvesting flax seed for linseed oil. Close view of farmer's hands holding flax plants. Production of peanut oil. Farmers hand holding a bunch of peanut plants. Display of peanuts and peanut oil. Tractor driven on peanut farm. Workers harvest peanuts. Farmer on tractor drives on field of castor bean plants. Rotating display shows products made from oils including insecticides, plastics, fibers. Farmers hands holding a bunch of cotton. Worker in field picking cotton. Farmer shows a new variety of longer staple cotton and stretches out the fibers which can be used for parachute cords.

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045648
Farm production for war effort in World War 2 with farming and processing of hemp, dried milk and dried eggs in United States

Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War II production in the United States. American farmer holding raw hemp for making rope. Farmers in Kentucky or Tennessee harvesting hemp to replace sources lost in the Philippines due to war in the Pacific. Hemp seed harvesting in southern states. A bag of hemp seed. Thick planting of the seeds yields straight, long fiber hemp plants. A boy on a farm stands next to tall hemp plants. A tall harvester attachment is seen cutting the hemp plants at harvest. Workers tie hemp plants in bundles and stack them for breaking. Hands of a man shown tearing and testing strong hemp fibers on a dried hemp plant stalk. Butter and milk bottles stacked closely in a cooler. Large metal bins of eggs are shown. Exterior view of a factory for egg drying. A tank truck parked outside the plant containing broken raw eggs to save space. Large dryers are shown producing a dried golden yellow powder from the eggs. Factory worker sits at a vibrating table that shakes and sifts the dried egg powder and loads it into bags. Scrambled eggs cooked in a pan over a stove. View of raw dozen eggs and packaged box of dried eggs side by side. The small box of one dozen eggs weighs only 5 ounces. View of a wooden barrel that holds the dried equivalent of 5000 eggs. Cows graze on a field. A milk tank truck parked at a drying factory. Cans of dried milk move on a factory assembly line. A machine applies a lid to each can. A wall of 15 gallon barrels of dried milk are shown, each containing the equivalent of 150 gallons of raw milk. Blocks of cheese shown in a dairy case display.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045649
Pork, beef, and sugar crops processed at farms and factories in United States to meet war demand in World War 2

Agricultural progress in the America during World War II, with increased production to meet wartime needs. Pigs, hogs, and piglets on a farm. Trees in the background. Vehicles pass in front of a pork butcher and processing factory. Truck in front says "HH Green" on side. Sign in background of shot says "Morrell" (this is possibly the John Morrell & Co. Packing Plant in Ottumwa Iowa). Butcher workers with cleavers cut and process pork on moving assembly line. Beef cattle graze on a field. Tractor operated on a farm field. View of beef cattle stockyards at butcher and processing factories for meat. Butcher operations for beef cattle seen on moving assembly line. Farmers harvest feed crops for meat production. A feed shed filled to the top. Farmer harvests sugarcane and drives wagon filled with sugarcane, pulled by horses. Farmer on tractor on a sugarcane field. A tall harvesting machine cuts sugarcane in the field at harvest. Farmer on a sugar beet field. A mechanical seed splitting machine is shown. Farmer holding shafts with sugar beet seeds attached. Sorghum plants are shown and described as a new source of sugar. A man feeds harvested sorghum plants into a pressing machine to extract sorghum liquid for sugar.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045650
Seeds, crops, farm, and victory gardens worked to support war effort in World War II in the United States.

Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War 2, in the United States. Efforts made to develop substitute crops for foreign products now unavailable. Farmer on a tractor in the farm. Crop planted and harvested with the help of tractor. Man takes seeds in hands from a bag. A 100 pound bag of 0-14-14 fertilizer reads: 'AAA for use only in carrying out soil building practices. Agriculture Conservation Program of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency." Farmer Harry Vetch in Mississippi shown in his field of nitrogen rich legumes that he is growing in order to obtain nitrogen fertilizer since nitrogen is needed in the war effort and unavailable to farmers. View of a field of crimson clover also for use in obtaining nitrogen. View of soybean and clover also used for nitrogen in corn fields. Man on tractor spreads manure fertilizer. A sign board reads: "Emergency Rubber Project. Quail Creek Nursery. Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture" outside a building. A man examines a test planting of a Mexican hule rubber plant needed to meet war demand for rubber. Man beside a 'Department of Agriculture' truck bounces a chunk of rubber. Also shown is a test planted row of Kok-saghyz Russian dandelion used to produce rubber. Milkweed and goldenrod plants are shown. Narrator talks about Victory Gardens as images of farmers plowing small fields are shown. Samples of Victory Garden vegetables shown on a table with signs noting the nutrients in each such as calcium, iron and vitamin B. A woman in a home victory garden holds up produce. View of a shelf of canned vegetables from a victory garden. Houses and trees on a farm, as a combine harvester works the fields. Mountains in the background. A row of grain silos. Man plows a field with yoked oxen. A woman works on a farm and drives a tractor. Farmers drive tractors and harvest potatoes or onions in a field.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045651
American battleships and troop transport ships underway in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

American battleships and troop transport ships underway in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. World War 2 U.S. Army troops aboard the transport ship.

Date: 1942, April 8
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029995
Radio stations inform Americans about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ford Motor Company Facilities convert to war plants in World War II

Film begins showing Japanese flag spreading over the Pacific areas of Japanese control. Newspaper headline reads: "Japs Attack Pearl Harbor." Radio news broadcaster states the "While the Battle of the Pacific spreads over a 5 thousand mile front, the United States formally declares war on the Empire of Japan." A woman in her home goes to her radio to listen to the broadcast. A man listens to his car radio. A man and woman listen to the broadcast in their living room. Film transitions to view of the Ford Motor Company Rouge River Plant in Dearborn Michigan. Then, the film begins to show products of the Ford Company as it converted to wartime production for the war. Several jeeps drive out of a yard holding thousands of them. View from camera below as jeeps drive above it. An Army officer and a civilian riding with a driver in a jeep being run through its paces at a Ford proving ground. An M4 tank running through mud. A 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 (Tank Destroyer) Amphibious jeeps entering a body of water, Several seen driving on a dry road and then entering the water. Numerous Army trucks seen parked in an open field. View of an M-10 Tank destroyer running over some trees. A twin engine transport plane takes off towing a Ford-built Waco CG-4 glider behind it. Aerial view from above of several transport planes towing CG-4 gliders at low altitude below. Closeup of a Ford-built supercharger installed in a warplane. Closeup showing its flapper valve moving as a person spins its compressor with his finger. Aircraft engine starting up. Ford-built Electronic antiaircraft director is shown. The remainder of the film shows men and women assembling aircraft engines in a Ford Motor plant.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030021