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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221638-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1942
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 13:00:55
TC Ends: 13:10:58
Duration: 00:10:03
The Middle States Erpi 1930s / 1940s 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. 13:01:59 US map w/ regions outlined. Animation of immigration. Population shown. Economics of industry & agriculture; agriculture overlaid. 13:03:54 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. 13:05:34 Soybean harvesting. 13:05:46 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. 13:07:05 Steam railroad locomotive / engine leaving yard w/ freight cars. Trucks at large warehouse. Airport & passenger planes taxiing. Map of transportation routes. 13:07:46 Farmer harvesting corn, soybeans. Milk trucks past. View over city. Assembly line of autos & farm machinery. Equipment leaving on trains. 13:08:25 Map showing economic imports & exports for Middle States. 13:09:18 Dairy farm; city rooftops; streets w/ pedestrians & traffic. Factory shot. Corn harvest; schools, colleges. 13:10:06 Recreation sail boat. Mural paintings by Thomas Hart Benton. 13:10:21 Book shelf w/ Sandberg; Mark Twain; Lewis etc. 13:10:25 Wagon train of covered wagons; log cabin. Monument to Lincoln and Lincoln Memorial sculpture. The End. Geography; History; 1940s; Educational Films; 1942; WW2 American Homefront; Americana; WWII;