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The Spanish Earth. Views of drought-stricken areas of rural Spain
Documentary film titled 'The Spanish Earth' depicts drought conditions in rural Spain. Two Spanish farmers feeling the dry earth, breaking it in their hands. Men with mules moving in foreground, with miles of parched farmland and a city in background. Fields with what appears to be a line of clay chimney-like structures across the foothills, each rising about 10 feet from the ground. View of the village of Fuentiduena with two of these structures in the foreground. Smoke coming from one on a hillside. (Note: Narrator is Ernest Hemingway.)
Local people going about their routine lives in village of Fuentiduena, Spain
Documentary film depicts conditions during Spanish civil war among loyalist, Spain. Activities of people in Fuentiduena village. Men preparing bread for baking. War propaganda Posters on their wall. Women sweep a street. Man comes out of his house with a mule. Woman walks with a child. Women work outside their houses. Women lined up outside a house for having a bread. Men walk with mules and mule carts. Vehicle pass on the street. Trees along the sides of the street.
French, German and American ships off the coast of Alicante, Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War. A French ship on guard off the coast of Alicante, Spain. The German battleship Wiesbaden and USS Kane off the coast of Alicante. USS Kane after being attacked by Spanish aircraft. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull explains the American point of view about the attack.
Spanish people gathered during Buenaventura Durruti's funeral procession in Barcelona, Spain.
Spanish Anarchist leader Jose Buenaventura Durruti Dumange's funeral procession in Barcelona, Spain. Spanish people on the streets to accompany the cortège during its route to the Montjuïc Cemetery. Spanish soldiers carry Durruti's coffin. Women cry during the procession. It is estimated that some half a million mourners attended the funeral in Barcelona.
Farmers set up irrigation for fields in village of Fuentiduena , Spain, during civil war
Documentary film depicts conditions during Spanish civil war. Activities of people in Fuentiduena village. Farmers plow their fields using wooden plows and horses to pull them. A farmer sowing seed by hand. Farmers planning irrigation of dry fields. Men climb hill carrying picks and mattocks to cut irrigation ditches. They work cutting a ditch along a line laid out on the ground. A dog sits watching them. One farmer uses a wooden tool to tamp the base of the new irrigation channel. Men working at the river edge to connect the new irrigation ditch. Other farmers using picks to steer the water as it begins to flow into the fields. Artillery fire is heard in the background.
Spain recruits and trains soldiers for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War. Boy walks with his father, back from farm fields, to greet another son home on leave from duty with the Republican army. That son, in uniform, is seen surrounded by family members. He talks to a small boy wearing a soldier's hat, sitting in his mother's lap. The father and other son arrive and the soldier and his father embrace. Members of the family, from the very old, to the youngest, smile and listen as the soldier speaks about his adventures. Next, the soldier is seen drilling village boys after they return from work in the fields. Villagers watch from roadside. Scene changes to recruits in uniform marching in a square. The soldier and several of his village friends are also seen drilling. A large number of recruits are seen drilling in Madrid. Families and sweethearts say farewells as new soldiers prepare to depart for duty. Military trucks, displaying red flags, wait to carry the new soldiers away. Next, they are seen driving away with soldiers riding in back.
