Look To The Land
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films & The Twentieth Century Fund
Unusual EB film arguing for sustainable resources w/ folk music interludes sung by narrator ‘The Wanderer’.
Titles.
14:43:25 PoV shot from inside car traveling down rainy highway. Scenic shots of countryside, waterfalls, forests etc. - VO “Once this was an untouched land...” Cut to startled deer, logging, eroded farmland etc. VO re damage done by humans. Quarry / mine.
14:55:46 Montage showing sympathetic use of land by American settlers, blacksmith, waterwheel, hay wagon. CU whistle of steam locomotive. New York City across river. Narrator suddenly breaks into song while urging people to “look to the land”. POV thru countryside on highways w/ truck passing; thru New England town, farm auction w/ SOF of auctioneer.
14:57:09 County agent at auction talks to camera re family forced to sell after farming unsuitable land; hillside dotted w/ tree stumps - river polluted by industrial waste from factories.
14:58:23 Aerial view Connecticut Valley. PoV car along country dirt road.
14:58:57 Alabama - cotton crop - run-down plantation mansion. Wanderer’s thumb appears as he hitches a lift w/ Black cotton farmer & family who tell their story. Farmer in field w/ kids helping inc. one in 4-H Club Tee-shirt - go to watch dam construction nearby - paid to leave farm as area is to be flooded - family drive thru Alabama past cattle herd in pasture, White farmer driving mechanical cotton picker waves, Black boy waves back - new factories on roadside. Farmer & older son planting pine seedlings on worn-out cotton land - trees felled. Pine mill.
15:03:02 PoV along electric wires, streets of towns; corn field / prairie blowing in wind - White farmer. VO says farmers in region forget hard times they had; shots of flooding, drought, topsoil blowing away. Farmer plowing at right angles to avoid erosion. POV along highway; Colorado & Wyoming cattle ranch - cattleman on horse surveys his land; bulldozer clears scrub & animal bones to form fire barrier. Burning weeds, re-seeding overgrazed range. Livestock on the move.
15:07:24 Fall timber & dragging trees; bulldozer pulling log truck, logs dropped into pond. CU man looks thru binoculars, forest fire in distance - controlled fire for crew training; workers clearing undergrowth, pruning, make fire trails. Seedlings in nursery - VO re sustainability of lumber.
15:09:48 Animation of life in a river basin & risk of pollution & flooding.
15:11:00 Dam construction. Completed dam, montage of benefits of controlled water supply, hydro-electricity electric towers at sunset. Narrator sums up w/ final urge to “heal the scars of the past, to look to the land for our future” - breaks into song - truck along road at night.
Conservation; Ecology; Environment; Geography; Travelogues; Deep South; Cowboys; Agriculture; Heavy Industry; Americana; Employment; Dust Bowl; Depression; Economy; Nature / Wildlife; Racial Integration;
1950s; 1954;
NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.
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Look To The Land Encyclopaedia Britannica Films & The Twentieth Century Fund Unusual EB film arguing for sustainable resources w/ folk music interludes sung by narrator ‘The Wanderer’. Titles. 14:43:25 PoV shot from inside car traveling down rainy highway. Scenic shots of countryside, waterfalls, forests etc. - VO “Once this was an untouched land...” Cut to startled deer, logging, eroded farmland etc. VO re damage done by humans. Quarry / mine. 14:55:46 Montage showing sympathetic use of land by American settlers, blacksmith, waterwheel, hay wagon. CU whistle of steam locomotive. New York City across river. Narrator suddenly breaks into song while urging people to “look to the land”. POV thru countryside on highways w/ truck passing; thru New England town, farm auction w/ SOF of auctioneer. 14:57:09 County agent at auction talks to camera re family forced to sell after farming unsuitable land; hillside dotted w/ tree stumps - river polluted by industrial waste from factories. 14:58:23 Aerial view Connecticut Valley. PoV car along country dirt road. 14:58:57 Alabama - cotton crop - run-down plantation mansion. Wanderer’s thumb appears as he hitches a lift w/ Black cotton farmer & family who tell their story. Farmer in field w/ kids helping inc. one in 4-H Club Tee-shirt - go to watch dam construction nearby - paid to leave farm as area is to be flooded - family drive thru Alabama past cattle herd in pasture, White farmer driving mechanical cotton picker waves, Black boy waves back - new factories on roadside. Farmer & older son planting pine seedlings on worn-out cotton land - trees felled. Pine mill. 15:03:02 PoV along electric wires, streets of towns; corn field / prairie blowing in wind - White farmer. VO says farmers in region forget hard times they had; shots of flooding, drought, topsoil blowing away. Farmer plowing at right angles to avoid erosion. POV along highway; Colorado & Wyoming cattle ranch - cattleman on horse surveys his land; bulldozer clears scrub & animal bones to form fire barrier. Burning weeds, re-seeding overgrazed range. Livestock on the move. 15:07:24 Fall timber & dragging trees; bulldozer pulling log truck, logs dropped into pond. CU man looks thru binoculars, forest fire in distance - controlled fire for crew training; workers clearing undergrowth, pruning, make fire trails. Seedlings in nursery - VO re sustainability of lumber. 15:09:48 Animation of life in a river basin & risk of pollution & flooding. 15:11:00 Dam construction. Completed dam, montage of benefits of controlled water supply, hydro-electricity electric towers at sunset. Narrator sums up w/ final urge to “heal the scars of the past, to look to the land for our future” - breaks into song - truck along road at night. Conservation; Ecology; Environment; Geography; Travelogues; Deep South; Cowboys; Agriculture; Heavy Industry; Americana; Employment; Dust Bowl; Depression; Economy; Nature / Wildlife; Racial Integration; 1950s; 1954; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.