The lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky, and how they cope with poverty and maintain their traditions and dignity through music. Daisy, Kentucky: Roscoe Holcomb, an unemployed construction worker and musician at his house nestled amidst the mountains. Crops on the farmland around the house. Pictures inside the house. A bulb hangs from the ceiling. Holcomb sings 'The Wandering Boy' from the New Baptist Song Book (example of appalachian music and early bluegrass.) Holcomb farms his land. He gets into bed and retires for the night.
A documentary film, titled "The Dust Bowl", showing the drought ridden areas of Southern plains in United States. Cattle grazing. A map of United States showing Southern plains, then the states of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and the city of Dalhart is also seen highlighted. Cattle grazing, a man standing outside a house. Views of Southern plain terrain. Tractors, wind mills and other farm equipment can be seen. Parched and barren land, desolated roads and houses can be seen.
Lewis Thaddeus Nordyke, newspaperman and author, explains the situation of drought and dust storms in Dalhart, Texas during 1930s. He talks about a "black blizzard" during a funeral in April, 1935.
Lewis Thaddeus Nordyke, newspaperman and author,speaks about hard lessons learned from the dust bowl experience of the past, particularly regarding soil conservation. A government agriculture expert counsels a farmer, as they kneel over a seedling. A field of healthy crops. A farmer on a cultivator. A farm in Dalhart, Texas. Farmer, Garland Palmer, explains why he stayed on his land after the dustbowl experience. Farmer, Harold H. Hogue, leaning against his tractor, tells of farming experience in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. He attributes ultimate success to irrigation. Views of irrigation systems employed on farm. Farmer, Orville H. Finch, expresses his confidence in the future of farming. Expansive views of farm fields.
Views of the river Columbia and surrounding mountains. Woody Guthrie singing the song Roll on Columbia. An outlined map of United States with closer views of the states of Washington and Oregon. A barge can be seen on the Columbia river. Different views of the river flowing. Areas of rapids and waterfalls on the Columbia River with salmon spawning and migrating upstream. A bear catching a salmon fish. A man seen fishing from a rock with a long net. Fishing men on wooden improvised platforms fish for salmon in the river.
Trucks and cars on roads in America going west during the Great Depression. The vehicles are laden down with lots of gear and possessions as people migrate westward in search of work and better conditions during the Great Depression. One unusual view shows a car towing a covered wagon. Two men walking west on road with their baggage. Logging men or lumberjacks cutting a giant tree into logs of wood and floating the logs down a river to a sawmill. Two men working in the sawmill as the giant sawblade cuts the logs into lumber. Aerial view of little activity at the Portland Lumber Mills of Portland Oregon, as the Depression cut into business. Abandoned sawmills in disrepair. A man talking to a group of workers seeking jobs. Idle men who are unemployed on a street corner, standing in front of the Julian S Chybke Pharmacist and Chemist shop at the corner of East 13th Avenue and Spokane Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Unemployed men stand together looking dejected and talking. Views of dust storm underway during the Dust Bowl. Farm equipment covered in dust and dirt. A man crossing over dust dunes. A farmer looking at dust bowl devastation, and a woman with her child in a dust ravaged area.
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