Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in bread line seeing food aid. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women in need of relief. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.
Factories on river banks during late 1930s in the Great Depression. Wheat yield from 15000 acres of field in a single cargo ship underway. Men operate machines to sort and separate wheat. Wheat harvesters at work. Smoke from stacks. Close up views of faces of young girl and boy children from poverty stricken farming families. Farmers work at a ever-normal granary where they stock pile corn to store their crop and to stabilize farm crop prices as part of a buffer stock scheme. Vast reserves in the ever-normal granary stored by farmers to preserve a market for their crop in the face of overproduction and glut in the market for wheat driving down prices. A farmer inspects and tastes corn that is being loaded by machine belt into top of a storage granary silo.
An elderly farmer shepherd sits on a wagon with his Border Collie sheep dog nearby. A large flock of sheep graze on a hill. Tree covered mountains. Cowboys on horseback watch over their herd of cows in terrain that appears to be western United States, during Great Depression era. A sheep dog near a cowboy. Cows graze on hills.
Cargo ships with wheat yield underway off shore. Smoke from the ship stacks. Industrial areas and wheat fields. Farm land and terrace farms. Farmers with horses work on farms and in fields. Cattle graze in fields. Patterned fields to hold the soil. Patterned land enriched with phosphate. Farmers talk about their land and farming problems, and share experience on farming methods to retain soil, learned from hard experiences during the Dust Bowl. Farming and farmland in the Carolinas, Oregon, New Mexico, Indiana, Texas Plains and parts of the Northwest United States. Houses in Pennsylvania. A farmer with his wife and child look over their farm. Wide views of tilled farm land. People in a farm community stand outside a food distribution area and wait for government supplied food aid (bread line) during Great Depression. Machines at work in fields and on farms.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF personnel in Vietnam. An airman near a lookout tower. A hut, tent and bed nearby. A loud speaker fixed on a height. Sandbags near the tent. A danger sign on a barbed wire fence reads 'Cam Vao Bai Min Nguy Hiem - Mine Field Keep Out'. Hay along the wire fence. Sheds, a check post and a lookout tower around the field. (Vietnam War period).
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. A USAF Base in Vietnam. An airman stands guard near sand bags on the air strip. U.S. aircraft parked in the background. Equipment and trolleys around the airplane. Enclosures on either side of the airstrip. The guard on duty with aircraft parked in the background. Aircraft with the cockpit hoods open. Airmen in a sandbag enclosure at a check post. A military jeep approaches, halts and passes. The guards with a rifle and a machine gun. A military jeep halts, the guards give the driver directions and the jeep moves on. The guards with their weapons. (Vietnam War period).
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