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International Zone: Food Problems Part 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221664-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1960s

Country: Ceylon,Italy,USA

Location: New York,Rome

TC Begins: 13:06:42

TC Ends: 13:19:45

Duration: 00:13:03

International Zone: Food Problems Part 2 of 2 Alistair Cooke narrating. Surpluses Warehouse & stacks of bagged food. Railroad cars loaded, corn into silo. Moth balled ships used as storage for grain. Large grain elevators and loading of ships. 13:07:35 Arab souk w/ melons & other goods. Boys eating. Aerial over large dam under construction, men working; using food for partially paying the workers. 13:08:40 Cooke speaking to camera. 13:09:42 Village on hillside in dry country, river in bottom of canyon. Thatched houses. Example of poverty generating poverty. Ceylon village life and farming. Man, wife and four children who will be test case for improving his rice farming. UN & Ceylon government working with him. He goes to FAO school training class for farmers to relearn about fundamentals of agriculture. Researchers developing new strains of tougher, healthier plants. Planting in nursery beds. Oxen pulling small plow and other farm tools. Applying chemical fertilizer, constructing factories to make it, roads built. Women thinning and planting rice. 13:14:18 Family eating, trying to borrow food and wait for harvest rather than pre-selling crop for low price. Rice harvested, threshed in the wind. 13:15:54 Cooke talking to camera. 13:17:05 Rome, Italy Food and Agriculture Organization buildings and offices. Packaging seeds for shipment. Fishing boats; veterinarian in Ethiopia; spray plain against locust; Libya desert being controlled; Food processing; Wheat and changing scythes. 13:18:40 Cooke talking to camera about Freedom From Hunger campaign. Human Civilization; Education; Poverty; Third World Development; Planning; Wealth Related; Globalisation; Economics; Statistics NO REGISTRATION NOTICE Thought to be no copyright - USER TO BE RESPONSIBLE Not on US Copyright website. Sell 1 minute at per reel price.

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