Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee University in Alabama, United States (home of the Tuskegee Airmen) during World War 2. The rear wing of the Piper Cub training aircraft flaps. Aircraft in flight. Aircraft flies between clouds. Pilot and copilot in aircraft while in flight.
Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee University in Alabama, United States (home of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War 2). Aerial view of Piper Cub training aircraft in flight. Pilot and copilot in aircraft while in flight. Aircraft tilts while in flight.
Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee University in Alabama, United States (home of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War 2). Moveable horizontal stabilizer of the Piper Cub is demonstrated. The aircraft "S" taxis on a field (proper for tail wheel airplanes, because of limited forward visibility). Trees in the background.
Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, home of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War 2. The Piper Cub training aircraft taxis on a field. Trees in the background. Aircraft engine near propeller of the aircraft. African American man rotates handle on panel of aircraft. He operates the fuel switch. He then operates the throttle handle.
Home demonstration agent at Tuskegee Institute trains women as part of a Tuskegee Institute "Movable Schools" education outreach program. Collins, a farmer, meets a preacher. Two men with a poster from State Agriculture College. The poster advertises the upcoming arrival of a "Movable School" in the Alabama town. People read the poste and move to attend the school. Knapp truck (A Ford truck called the Knapp Agricultural Truck, so named to honor Seaman A. Knapp, of the national Cooperative Extension System) arrives with a group of instructors. Rural agricultural community of African American people learn skills from the movable school as they work in garden, water plants, erect stairs, mend houses, sharpen tools and make baskets. People learn carpentry under the guidance of an African American instructor. A new poultry house replaces an old hen house. A man views through a transit device as they learn about creating terraced farming plots.
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary "The Land." A seemingly abandoned, dilapidated house at an unidentified farm or former plantation location, possibly in Alabama, during the Great Depression. Spanish moss hanging from nearby trees. Views of a different, wooden, rundown house with a front porch, possibly at a different location. Scene changes again to a third different house, this one made of brick. A lone African American man emerges from double doors of the house. He walks up to a bell, cleans it, and rings it. Distant open view in front of the bell includes a valley and river (possibly the Tennessee River in western Lauderdale County, but not confirmed.) Scene changes again to show the first house and the trees with Spanish Moss. View returns to the location with the man tending the bell. Next scene shows the Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence Alabama, (Lauderdale County). View of the old main Greek Revival Forks of Cypress house built in 1830 for James Jackson. View of the west elevation of the house. The smokehouse is seen behind and to the side of the main house. A clothes line with clothes on it is beside the smokehouse. Chickens walk on the porch of the house, past its tall colonnade of 24 ionic columns. (Note: The house burned completely in a 1966 fire). Next scene is again the elderly African American man at the brick house location. He looks around, mumbling to himself, walks back towards the house, and pauses on the front steps. The first wooden house with Spanish moss in nearby trees is shown again. Scene returns to the elderly African American man who enters the brick house and closes the doors behind him. Film directed and narrated by Robert Flaherty.
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