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1940 - Educational Film: Story Of Wheat, The

Reel Number: 221480-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940

Country: Egypt,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 10:00:45

TC Ends: 10:11:21

Duration: 00:10:36

Title. Wheat field w/ grain blowing in wind; field after harvest & animation of sun. 10:01:17 Egypt w/ tourists in pith hats ride camels w/ Arabs past pyramids. Painting of wheat field in Holy Lands. Graphics: loaf of bread - “symbol for all food” - wheat kernels. Title listing nutrients in bread. Map of world showing wheat-growing countries - US wheat regions. 10:03:02 Intertitle: The Growing of Wheat - Preparing the Soil. Farmer on tractor plows pasture; harrows soil. Horse-drawn planter drilling aka planting seeds; tractor pulled planter. Winter scene w/ horse-drawn sled. Wheat field in summer; wheat harvesting w/ horse or mule pulled reaper; tractor pulled binder. Shocks of grain in piles. 10:04:50 Intertitle: The Combine. Tractor pulled combines thru large fields. 10:05:17 Intertitle: Threshing. Pitching grain shocks into belt driven threshing machine where wheat separated from chaff. 10:06:09 Intertitle: The Milling Process. Freight train transporting wheat. LS grain elevators. INT machines grind wheat into flour. Whet cleaning machines; sieves, sorting. 10:07:02 Animated diagram of wheat kernel. Cross section of mill machinery. 10:07:38 Milling flour production line. Sacks of flour unloaded from conveyor & stacked. 10:09:25 Intertitle: Baking. INT commercial bakery scenes - dough mixing - into oven - temperature gauge. 10:09:56 Home baking equipment. Wheat products - waffles, muffins, wafers, cookies. Stills of family around dinner table, loaf of bread, sacks of flour, mill & grains of wheat. 10:10:51 Wheat field shots w/ animated rain & sun. Farming / Agriculture. Cooking. Midwest. Consumer Goods / Products. 1930s Americana; Production; Industry;

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