Farmer and his family members work in the dim light of lamps after sunset in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Woman iron clothes by warming irons on fire. She lit the lamps and starts to cook. Other family members sit around the table for dinner. They eat their meal in the dim light of lamp. Studying, stitching and sharpening farming tools are also done in lamp's light. (World War II period).
Lack of modern farming techniques leads to farmers doing all their works by hand in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Scenes of farmers cutting and piling harvested crops, followed with poetry and music in the background. Farmers sit in groups, discuss and smoke hand made tobacco rolls. Farmers learn the work of Rural Electrification Administration (REA). Works of REA in successive years shown through a diagrammatic map.
Improved conditions after electricity supply in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Scenes of an improved stable with electrically-pumped water supply. Cows drinking water from trough, chicks in a warmed incubator, man pouring cows milk into milk can. Milk can cooled by water run from faucet into sink. Horses drinking water pouring from faucet. Men cutting wood with powered saw, woman washes clothes in early electric washing machine, girl irons clothes with electric iron, man using electric grinder for sharpening. Light on pole illuminates outside of farm house. Man walks into lit farmhouse with hot meal prepared by woman using electric range.
Views of P-38 drop tank, equipped with tail fins, under the wing of a B-24 aircraft. Views of the tank being towed beneath the B-24 as fuel is pumped through it. Fuel seen streaming from back of the tank.
Audio largely unintelligible. United States Army Air Force general seated at a desk talking about the Canadian KB-700 Lancaster Bomber program during World War II. Map on wall of European Theatre of Operations. Flag of United States is visible in the back.
Henry Ford is seen standing beside his Ford Quadricycle, outside of his Bagley Avenue workshop building. Next scene shows Ford seated in the quadricycle, the first vehicle he built. Henry Ford standing in discussion with another man and looking at the rear of a Ford vehicle, with Henry Ford pointing at part of the car. The two men then walk past a line of various Ford cars representing many model years, all parked in front of the then recently restored Clinton Inn (formerly Eagle Tavern) at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. Final scene shows Henry Ford again seated in his quadricycle.
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