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Unhealthy living conditions and shabby slum and tenement housing areas near industrial factories in Great Depression.
Unhealthy living conditions and shabby conditions of people in blue collar slums in the U.S. Factories and industrial areas emit smoke, smog, and pollution from smokestacks in the early morning, as children ascend a set of wooden steps in foreground. Piles of trash outside a residential slum area of factory and coal workers. Landscape of crowded shacks and industrial factories clouded with smog. Children play on wooden walkways and railings near shacks. A boy slides down a railing standing up. Sad looking girl looks on. A little boy in overalls has his hands in his pockets and a sad, blank expression on his face. A train passes by on an overhead trestle a few feet away from simple shack homes. Women and children live in unhealthy conditions during Great Depression. Group of children scamper and run over railroad tracks. Shabby children in the dilapidated slum area. A woman watches them. Fast approaching locomotive train speeds toward camera and passes by. After train passes, a boy races back onto the track area to fetch something there. Many scenes of muddy dirt roads, slums, shacks, and factory mills. A man loads coal pieces into a hand bucket and limps back toward a shack, as his right leg has a prosthetic. African American man brushes chickens away from doorway of wooden shack and enters front door. Woman empties wash basin out front porch as dog looks on. Children ascend wooden steps in tenement complex. Children play with a puppy dog. Glum looking sad boy and girl children stare forward. Woman hands laundry from line as boy walks by and enters outhouse. Man smoking pipe draws water from a hand pump. Elderly woman hangs wash on line. Man returns home carrying lunch box. Young woman and old man and old woman each pump water. Man stands at table with wash basin and soap, and scrubs dirt off hands and face after work. Overweight woman cooks food at a coal stove, adds coal and stirs. Smoke from brick chimney. Black smoke from large steam shovel crane and smoke pollution from railroad trains in marshaling yards.
American civilians dine and eat at diners, lunch counters, and roadside stands. Kitchen workers and wait staff prepare food.
A horse and a woman eat near a road. Civilians eat and dine at various fast food restaurants, lunch counters, diners, and road side stands in the United States. A woman waitress prepares coffee for people at a public diner. People drink coffee at lunch counter or diner. Examples of early fast food automation, including kitchen worker pushing bread loaves through automatic bread slicing machine. Toast pops up from high capacity restaurant toaster. Cheese or meat drops from automated slicer onto counter. Hands seen preparing sandwich at high speed. Automated system dispenses batter onto hot griddle or pan to make pancakes. Man dispenses coffee from large silver coffee urn. Close view of diners eating sandwiches and drinking coffee. Automated pancake flipping spatula on machine turns pancakes. Rapid fire scenes of food preparation. Hand with cloth wipes counter clean from crumbs. Two women wipe their mouths at same time and rise from seats at lunch counter to leave.
USDA documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast' depicts terracing techniques for soil control and improved farming
From a U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast.' Depicts soil problems in farming and solutions via terracing. Trees near farm land. Withered, irregular plants on poor soil. Healthy crops ready for harvest in a large terraced farmland. Trees and barns at the end of field. A farmer plows field with a tractor. Crops in the farm land. Two men walk on the field. Farmers care for growing plants. A man checks the black soil suitable for the growth of crops. Water flows through a channel to irrigate the crops. Two farmers operate a hand plow. A man plows hardened soil of field standing on a horse-drawn plow. From an H.W. Wilson Company listing in 1940 of its Educational Film holdings: This is a Soil conservation service film. As beautiful scenes of the countryside unfold the commentator tells us that much of America's oldest farming land is in the Northeast. The serious soil erosion situation is frequently taken care of by terracing. We learn how terracing is done, its advantages and see land so cultivated. Terracing is used successfully for growing potatoes, tobacco, truck farming and for fruit culture. Cover crops are planted and when turned under add fertility to the soil. It is necessary to inspect the terraces regularly and to keep the channels of the outlets clear. An informative picture showing construction and uses of terraces and other erosion control measures as applied to northeastern part of United States. New Hampshire.
Various farming instruments and techniques involved in terraced farming in the northeastern United States
Terracing in the northeast United States for more effective farming. Various farming instruments involved in terraced farming in Northeastern states of the United States. Agriculture experts in a village measure level and various properties of field using instruments. A farmer uses divine sticks to detect underground water. Farmers plow the field using a tractor. Early Caterpillar and Case tractors shown. Tractors pull plows and plow the fields. Various farming equipment used by farmers. A pair of mules pull a plow. CASE tractor with a large spinning bit plows, spraying soil inward. View of plowed fields.
Farmers practicing terracing in the northeast of the U.S. for improved farming output
On terraced farming in the northeastern United States. Various farming equipment and techniques for improving soil and crop output. Various plows and tractors with disc for improving soil. Preparing a field for new planting. Tractor pulling plow with tines. A plowed field ready for sowing seeds with even furrows. Different tractor on a field. A tractor starting work on an unimproved field. Improved, terraced fields. Men walk on the fields. Road to a farmhouse lined by trees.
Interiors of United States Air Force BT-13 aircraft.
A pilot turning and tuning a radio crank of a U.S. Air Force BT-13 aircraft. Pilot handles sticks and throttles inside the cockpit of the aircraft.