1950s - Colour, USA Promotional Film: How Green is Your Garden

1950s - Colour, USA Promotional Film: Home Lawn & Garden Maintenance Main titles. 01:30:11 Panning shots of beautiful gardens / yards, trees, blooming flowers & lawns in wealthy suburban home. 01:31:24 Family walking along sidewalk past houses. 01:31:35 Graphic detailing seeds, food elements needed for plant growth. Garden specialist at University shows test tomato plants all grown from same seed but w/ different plant food & results. 01:34:06 Couple standing in sunshine look at new house being built, planning garden & walking around construction site. 01:34:39 Couple shopping at small hardware store / shop for landscaping materials; purchases loaded into car trunk / boot. 01:35:13 Man planting shrub; woman watering & woman adding Agrico brand fertilizer. Couple shoveling top soil, adding lime & peat moss across the topsoil. Man spreading fertilizer, sowing grass w/ push spreader & woman watering w/ hose. Rolling & watering. Man wiping sweat from forehead & couple looking at yard 01:38:40 Front yard of suburban house. CU yellow-brown lawn - man repairing “dilapidated, mangy lawn” - couple gardening - adding fertilizer - little girl playing, raking out thatch. Lovely suburban homes & front lawns w/ flowers & flowering trees; sprinklers 01:41:18 Graphic explaining how trees need fertilizer. Young man making holes in grass & adding fertilizer for tree w/ funnel into small holes. Fertilizer added to plants & lawns, CUs flowers. Spring blossom & flowers. Shrubs & flowering bushes. Tulips. Flowering trees. 01:44:01 Woman planting annuals. Good CUs roses & other summer flowers. s. 01:46:00 Vegetables: cabbages, carrots, beets. 01:46:26 Girl on pony rides up to house. Girl runs down steps of large house & into MG (?) sports car & drives down curved, paved driveway. 01:47:07 Very wealthy home w/ stream running thru grounds, family having drinks by water. Different house, men practice golf putting. Garden party under yard umbrellas, MCU greetings. 01:48:15 Municipal parks & gardens w/ kids in swimming pool; use by carnival / amusement park rides; tennis courts, baseball field w/ grandstands. 01:48:53 Golf course being mechanically fertilized. People playing recreational golf. Spectators & golf tournament. Crowd follows on fairway. 01:50:20 Horse racing on grass track; cadets / marching band perform on grass. Autumn, man mowing & raking lawn, adding fertilizer & grass seed before winter. Spring - man mowing lawn. 01:52:05 Phosphorus / phosphate mine of American Agricultural Chemical Company in central Florida. Rock mined, processed into phosphate pebbles. Aerials, Agrico fertilizer factories in various locations. Laboratory technician carrying out tests on phosphate. Product bags showing various Agrico fertilizers. 01:54:25 Hardware store / garden center w/ more Agrico bags. Suburban houses & front lawns. Man riding lawn mower. Suburban road. School & grounds. 01:55:24 Family garden party w/ father at barbecue; mother serving, children play in garden. 01:56:02 POV along suburban street of green lawns. The End. Gardening / Horticulture; Landscape Architecture; Suburbia; Nuclear Family; Kitsch; 1950s Americana. Promotional Film; Advertising Film; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.