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USDA documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast' depicts terracing techniques for soil control and improved farming

From a U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary titled 'Terracing in the Northeast.' Depicts soil problems in farming and solutions via terracing. Trees near farm land. Withered, irregular plants on poor soil. Healthy crops ready for harvest in a large terraced farmland. Trees and barns at the end of field. A farmer plows field with a tractor. Crops in the farm land. Two men walk on the field. Farmers care for growing plants. A man checks the black soil suitable for the growth of crops. Water flows through a channel to irrigate the crops. Two farmers operate a hand plow. A man plows hardened soil of field standing on a horse-drawn plow. From an H.W. Wilson Company listing in 1940 of its Educational Film holdings: This is a Soil conservation service film. As beautiful scenes of the countryside unfold the commentator tells us that much of America's oldest farming land is in the Northeast. The serious soil erosion situation is frequently taken care of by terracing. We learn how terracing is done, its advantages and see land so cultivated. Terracing is used successfully for growing potatoes, tobacco, truck farming and for fruit culture. Cover crops are planted and when turned under add fertility to the soil. It is necessary to inspect the terraces regularly and to keep the channels of the outlets clear. An informative picture showing construction and uses of terraces and other erosion control measures as applied to northeastern part of United States. New Hampshire.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037168
Farmers practicing terracing in the northeast of the U.S. for improved farming output

On terraced farming in the northeastern United States. Various farming equipment and techniques for improving soil and crop output. Various plows and tractors with disc for improving soil. Preparing a field for new planting. Tractor pulling plow with tines. A plowed field ready for sowing seeds with even furrows. Different tractor on a field. A tractor starting work on an unimproved field. Improved, terraced fields. Men walk on the fields. Road to a farmhouse lined by trees.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037170
Children of Japanese Americans go to school inside a relocation center during WW2.

Japanese American children at school in a relocation center (internment camp) during World War 2. The U.S. flag on a relocation center. Young children in Kindergarten class. Teachers teach small students in a primary class. Girl student in the class solves problems. Students learn to play basketball at a court. Slate notes, "How do they react to the rising tide of racial prejudice? Well, here's one answer -- a growing feeling among the older Japanese that they will be permanently segregated and become wards of the United States, like the American Indian. Thus willing hands erect more permanent school buidlings." View of Japanese-American worker-residents in the camp building school buildings. Nisei students and American teacher at a high school. A girl solves trigonometry problems, standing at the black board in a class room. A student arranges drawers in a rack. Older Japanese-born men and women (Issei) learning in a school classroom. A student writes answers on the blackboard.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037173
Modern B-52 and cruise missile contrasted with World War II air power of the 8th Air Force

On Target ' a documentary on 8th Airforce of the United States. A B-52 air-launches an AGM-28 Hound Dog supersonic jet-powered cruise missile which is seen soaring under its own power. A formation of World War II B-24 Liberator bombers flying above clouds. A formation of B-17 bombers in flight.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037326
American family of German or Italian descent leaves their house with their belongings for relocation to an internment camp

American evacuees leave their house with their belongings in the United States during World War 2. A woman, boy, and a girl (the three possibly of German or Italian descent) stand by as their belongings are packed up. Their belongings being loaded onto a truck with assistance from U.S. military personnel, and the truck moves away. Two policemen and a dog, patrol in front of an internment center. Military guard stops the cars passing by at the entrance. A Japanese relocation center under construction. Men load bags of sand building a sandbag wall beside a building and painting windows with black paint. Views again of the same American family from earlier in the clip, possibly of German or Italian heritage, begin relocated to an alien internment center.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037935
Quartz Crystal mining and manufacturing and its various uses

Two men dig earth to extract quartz crystals in United States. Specifens are immersed in water to be washed .. They are processed with machines to obtain crystals which are mainly used in tiles and jewelry.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037981
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