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1942 - Educational Film: Middle States, The

Reel Number: 221480-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 10:11:25

TC Ends: 10:21:26

Duration: 00:10:01

Title. Montage: Conifer & deciduous forests around lakes; dairy pasture & barns; grain elevator. Corn harvester; stockyard pens & cattle; large freight yard; steel mills; tractor assembly line; Chicago street scenes. 10:12:31 US map w/ regions outlined. Animation of immigration. Population shown. Economics of industry & agriculture; agriculture overlaid. 10:14:23 Dairy farm; haying operation w/ hay hauled to barn. Dairy barn & milking machines. Bottling plant; butter & cheese manufacturing. Corn harvesting. Pig farming. Corn dumping at elevator. 10:16:05 Soybean harvesting. 10:16:18 LS of small industrial city. Int. at time clock; men at milling machines; assembling tractors. Coal mining & iron mining in open pit mines. Trains leaving pit & into ore carriers seen on lake. Steel mill. Ore carrier & suspension bridge. 10:17:35 Steam engine leaving yard w/ freight cars. Trucks at large warehouse. Airport & passenger planes taxiiing. Map of transportation routes. 10:18:15 Farmer harvesting corn, soybeans. Milk trucks past. View over city. Assembly line of autos & farm machinery. Equipment leaving on trains. 10:18:55 Map showing economic imports & exports for Middle States. 10:19:49 Dairy farm; city rooftops; streets w/ pedestrians & traffic. Factory shot. Corn harvest; schools, colleges. 10:20:37 Recreation sail boat. Mural paintings by Thomas Hart Benton. 10:20:52 Book shelf w/ Carl Sandburg; Mark Twain; Lewis etc. 10:20:55 Wagon train of covered wagons; log cabin. Monument to Lincoln and Lincoln Memorial sculpture. The End. Geography; History; 1940s; Educational Films; 1942; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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