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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221720-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1936
Country: USA
Location: Nebraska
TC Begins: 00:48:14
TC Ends: 00:57:29
Duration: 00:09:15
R3 of 3 Electric yard light blowing in wind; LS dark clouds, dust storm. Boy running for house; kids running into town store; farmer running across yard; dust blowing; tumbleweeds by fence; dust on window sill in house. Heavy dust cloud & sandstorm. 00:49:50 Dust covered floor of abandoned house in front of fireplace; ext w/ sky blotted out. LS of farm. 00:50:15 Broken windmill, farm buildings drifted in w/ dirt & children watching man shovel out dirt. Girl carrying bucket over small dune, into wagon; farmer puts chairs on & drives off w/ kids on back. Sand dunes covering corn. 00:52:03 Line of cars of migrants past pulling trailers; family in tent cabin, watch cars pull in. Man brushes off dust, women unloading trailer, man whittles & talks to another. More cars off road. CU broken windmill, cars. 00:53:42 LS of dry land w/ wind blowing dust & tumbleweed. Pan over dunes & dead trees. 00:54:19 Map of US showing Great Plains & listing damage done in acreage & government reclamation. 00:56:14 LS of Farm Security Administration, FSA homes in Nebraska under construction in CU, MS & LS. Pan across. Blowing soil; grass blowing in wind. The End. Depression; Farming / Agriculture; Economics; Man-Made Disasters; 1930s; 1936; USA Western History; Americana; Classic Documentary; Dust Bowl; Soil Conservation Service; CCC; Resettlement Administration; New Deal;