A sledgehammer pounds a fence stake into the ground. A plow is used to break the land of the Great Plains. A farmer takes soil into his hands and throws it back as it crumbles in his hands. Combine harvesters pulled by teams of mules harvest a large wheat crop. Wheat grain pours into a sack on a harvester.
A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near the plow. An explosion on the land. World War 1 news headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar decline of the wheat market results in overproduction: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground during dust bowl era. Overproduction of wheat. Notice of 'Farms for Sale' in lower prices. Farm machinery is used. The sun rises in the background. A notice of 'Own a farm away from home'. Overproduction of wheat is shown. Over-exuberance in roaring 20s market is shown by a stock market or commodities market ticker running large amounts of ticker tape and a scene of a 1920s African American jazz musician drummer playing the drums enthusiastically and smiles while another band musician in the background plays bass.
From the story of a plow that breaks plains in the Great Plains, United States. Farm machinery and useless farm. Wrecked farm equipment. A boundary of barbed wires on the farms. A wind mill, damaged electricity lines and a homesteader. Rugged terrain and useless farms. A dust storm during the dust bowl era renders a farm useless.
People leave their homes in the Great Plains, United States, during the dust bowl and Great Depression. A tower and damaged houses on plain lands. A girl walks near a house. People leave their homes with their belongings. They head towards the west. Views of deserts. People live in tents. Motorcars arrive near a tent. Women unload carts. Two men seated outside the tent. Farm machinery and equipment on the ground. Useless farms and barren trees.
Activities of bathers near and around a beach area in Bahrain. The view across the water towards beach area in the background at Bahrain. Several bathers on beach. Bathers on a beach, some in water. The bathers are seated around a table. In the background, surf rolls in. A young child digs in sand and plays with his bucket. A young girl drinks from a cup. A woman and a child seated in lawn chairs on the beach. Sheik Faisal Bin Khalid Al Qasmi on his private beach in Bahrain. An American talks with the Sheik. The Sheik in his Arab robes sitting on a chair. An American woman with her young daughter. The Sheik smokes a cigarette. Americans seated around an outdoor table. The Sheik in the background. An American woman with her young child. Arab and American children sit to the right. A man and a child on the beach.
Street scenes in Manama, Bahrain. Streets of downtown Manama. Shops on a street and automobiles parked in the foreground. Pedestrians walk along a street past the shops. A man pushes a stroller along a street. A sign outside one of the shops in Arabic and in English "New Store". Signs outside the shops. A woman leads two children down a street. A woman looks over bolts of material. The material in a store. A sign in Arabic on a shop. A shopkeeper displays some of his cloth.
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