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Oklahoma Master Farmer Ed Hearn's farming successes, 1929

From a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) film. Title card presents the question "what is success in farming?" Various examples attempt to answer the question: A farmer handing a stack of bills to banker. Woman splits wood with an axe, small ramshackle house behind her. Man sits on the banks of water, fishing while smoking a pipe. Herd of cattle with large barn and house in the background, grain silos. Motor car pulls up to doorway of a luxurious house, man dressed in a suit enters the car and it drives off. Now, portrayed as a better answer compared to the previous, scenes of Ed Hearn's farming practices. Hearn has been recognized and awarded as an Oklahoma "Master Farmer." Hearn speaks with another man. Scene of Hearn driving a wagon pulled by a team of horses, which the film notes was what he began with. Now he has 550 acres. Hearn practices crop rotation and terracing to preserve soil quality. Various crops swaying in the wind. Wide shots of Hearn's farmland. Hearn's herd of shorthorn cattle graze in a field. View of Hearn's two-story house. Hearn's two daughters, both noted as being in college. Close up of Hearn smiling and talking with a man. Title card says "That's one story of success."

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675081019
Farming practices of Will Barnett, named Oklahoma Master Farmer

United States Department of Agriculture film. A 1927 scorecard depicts the breakdown of points for assessing a farmer and his operations. Zoom on "maintenance of soil fertility." Scene shows deep machine plowing of soil, practiced by Will Barnett. Barnett uses manure from his farm to keep his soil healthy. Barnett drives a cart pulled by two horses, spreading manure on his land. Barnett's hogs in a pen. Barnett walks down a line of hogs, barn in the background. Barnett's wife's white leghorn chickens, moving about on the ground by their coop. Barnett weighing a bag of cotton, hoists it into the back of a truck amid a cotton field. Shot of the Barnett house and pumpkin patch.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675081020
Plane beats Parachute jumper in an unusual landing test at Roosevelt Field, New York.

Plane beats Parachute jumper in an unusual landing test at Roosevelt Field, New York. Two people including Clarence Chamberlin, go inside a plane. Plane takes off. A parachute trooper jumps. Plane passes falling man and beats him to a landing.

Date: 1930, March 15
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035104
Fernando Costa Viega, Willy Rody and Christian Johannsen transferred to a Norwegian liner in New York.

A boat swings as tied with a Norwegian America Line liner SS Stavangerfjord and lowered to sea in New York. Men in boat row. People on a ship in the sea. A boat in the sea. Boat comes near a ship. Fernando Costa Viega, Willy Rody and Christian Johannsen transferred to the Norwegian ocean liner after their rescue off the coast of St. Johns, Newfoundland, in the Atlantic Ocean. Nurse and a man taking Fernando de Costa as he is injured. German aces and their Portuguese companions are welcomed by people.

Date: 1931, September 21
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035115
Strand Theater alights on its 12th birthday celebration in Brooklyn, New York. Crowd gathers for movie.

Strand Theater celebrates its 12th birthday at 647 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. People stand outside the theater, where the movie theater marquee advertises Constance Bennett in "Bought" with Ben Lyon. A birthday cake on a table in the lobby. Two men pose as they cut the cake.

Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035123
A chief executive motorcade with policemen escorting on New upper deck roadway in New York.

New upper deck roadway in New York. Cars on the bridge. A chief executive motorcade with policemen escorting.

Date: 1931, June 25
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035135