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.
An elderly farmer shepherd sits on a wagon with his Border Collie sheep dog nearby. A large flock of sheep graze on a hill. Tree covered mountains. Cowboys on horseback watch over their herd of cows in terrain that appears to be western United States, during Great Depression era. A sheep dog near a cowboy. Cows graze on hills.
Cargo ships with wheat yield underway off shore. Smoke from the ship stacks. Industrial areas and wheat fields. Farm land and terrace farms. Farmers with horses work on farms and in fields. Cattle graze in fields. Patterned fields to hold the soil. Patterned land enriched with phosphate. Farmers talk about their land and farming problems, and share experience on farming methods to retain soil, learned from hard experiences during the Dust Bowl. Farming and farmland in the Carolinas, Oregon, New Mexico, Indiana, Texas Plains and parts of the Northwest United States. Houses in Pennsylvania. A farmer with his wife and child look over their farm. Wide views of tilled farm land. People in a farm community stand outside a food distribution area and wait for government supplied food aid (bread line) during Great Depression. Machines at work in fields and on farms.
A Press Conference with Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States. Correspondents include Mr. George Enninful, Mr Parshuram of the Indian Express and Mr William Workman. They question and talk to African American clergyman, civil rights leader and activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They question him and discuss about issues related to the African American community, the church and it's attitude towards African Americans, segregation of the church, and developments in the church.
A hospital in the United States in the 1960s. View from a dolly moving down a hospital hallway or corridor. Patient treatment rooms on either side of the hall. A door at the end of the hall. Another corridor adjoining the hall. A ceiling light in the adjoining corridor. An interview with a young male drug abuse patient who use illegal drug LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide).
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) patients in the United States. An interview with a young female user of illegal drug LSD. The patient responds to the interviewers questions.
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