A poverty stricken migrant farming family lives in make shift shelters and tent camps during the Great Depression in the United States. A girl sleeps in a tent while a woman washes utensils nearby. A man and a young boy cook food on a stove. An unemployed family lives in a trailer. The man with his wife and children. The woman with her children. The man loads their belongings into a horse wagon. A young boy near his bicycle. Other farmers watch as the family gets on and they begin their journey westward.
Clouds over barren and parched land during Great Depression. Expansive views of open western plains and distant mountains. Some cactus plants in undeveloped wide open areas in Arizona. A steam engine locomotive pulls a train in the distance. Hills, cattle graze. Elevated view of a man made Theodore Roosevelt Lake reservoir and the Theodore Roosevelt dam that created it, northeast of Phoenix Arizona. Farms, fields, trees and vegetation. Migrant farmers in overloaded cars and heavily loaded automobiles on a dirt road. A parked trailer. A loaded wagon attached to the car. Boxes of fruits and vegetables including lemons, sweet potatoes and oranges at very low prices. Children of migrant farmers playing together and milling about. Groups of migrant worker farmers looking for work and competing for work in Arizona with four crops a year due to warm conditions and water from dams. Cars with variety of western United States 1939 license plates. Filipino and Mexican immigrant farmers pick fruits and vegetables (lettuce) on a farm. Men work on an irrigated field. Narrator states that Filipino and Mexicans have the jobs because they are strong. They pick and load lettuce into trucks on a lettuce field. Men work at sheds at packing machines to pack the lettuce. Trucks loaded in the field. Mexican border on Rio Grande river valley: Men, women and children work in a field. Most are Mexican. They pick fruits and vegetables and load them into buckets and containers. A man supervises the workers. Women workers pick and sort produce on a field. A man with a loaded horse wagon. Men lift boxes of produce. Migrants work in a field.
Destitute children from poor migrant farm families play near dilapidated houses and tent communities and shacks during the Great Depression in America. A poverty stricken woman stitches and sews in a tent. A sick young boy moves his hands in his sleep as he thinks he's picking peas, while his mother watches over him at his bedside in a tent or shack.
Wide views of cotton fields with hills in the background, in the United States. Tents in the field for migrant farm labor workers during the Great Depression. Automobiles and carts nearby. A truck with trailers attached halts on a road. African American and foreign migrants, (Mexican and/or Latin American, primarily) climb into the trailers. Men, women and children cotton pickers picking cotton by hand. A farmer operates an automated cotton picker in a cotton field, showing how automation is displacing hand labor for cotton picking. The picked cotton held in the machine.
A man drives a bulldozer to fell trees during the Great Depression in America. A woman with children watches the logging operation. The bulldozer clears trees and rocks from the land. Trees are felled and uprooted to create more farm land (ultimately leading to overproduction of crops, drops in prices, and depression conditions for farmers). Boxes full of carrot in a truck. A carrot harvester picks carrots in a field. Men tie up the carrots together. Men and women workers stand and watch the machine at work. Workers seated on and around boxes of carrots. An African American worker lights a cigarette. An elderly migrant from the Cumberland Mountains. Expansive views of the Cumberland Mountains and a farm house on a mountain side. A house, horses, hens, ducks and a cow with her calf on the farm. A stern wheel paddle steamer steam ship or river boat moves up a river. Two workers operate machines at a grinding mill or grist mill with water wheel running. A man operates a horse wheel. Elevated views of a river flowing in a valley between mountains and nearby farmland. Tall grass in a field.
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 line. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.
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