Reel Number: 221119-09
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940
Country: USA
Location: CA,California,Hollywood,Indio,Los Angeles
TC Begins: 11:11:04
TC Ends: 11:19:27
Duration: 00:08:23
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Californian Labor Camps Mar-Apr40 Indio Migratory Labor Camp, Indio, CA: Teenage boys baling hay - one wearing cowboy hat. Boy helping on tractor pulling plow. Picking fruit in orchard - truck loaded w/ grapefruit - sacks emptied. Boy eating lunch w/ family in camp outside tent. Migrant family in truck entering camp - CU sign ‘Office - US Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration’. Camp official gets information from mother and son in cab of truck. 11:16:12 Angeles Crest CCC Camp, Hollywood: boys file past camera & into trucks. Truck convoy along road through hills. Boys out of trucks near Mount Wilson - up hill w/ pickaxes in hand. Boys at work w/ pick-axes & shovels. Depression. Poverty. Migration. Teenagers.