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WWI - 1917 , Creel Commission: Winning The War - Winning The Farm Problem Of The Nation

Reel Number: 220499-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1917

Country: USA

Location: Pennsylvania

TC Begins: 03:03:49

TC Ends: 03:13:16

Duration: 00:09:27

Main titles. 03:03:58 Inter-title: It was quiet on the American farm... 03:04:00 Boys turning hay in field w/ pitchforks. 03:04:08 Inter-title: Suddenly a bugle resounded through the... 03:04:11 CU bugler. 03:04:15 Men stop forking hay; CU boy beating chest w/ enthusiasm. 03:04:21 Inter-title: ...their country’s call & like million of their fellow citizens they leave for ‘over there’. 03:04:24 Walking out of the field; gesturing to man at barn & shake hands & leave. Soldiers marching down NYC avenue w/ rifles & bedrolls. 03:04:48 Inter-title: The farmer’s dilemma...no one is left... 03:04:52 Tired farmer on porch; wife out of door. 03:05:00 Inter-title: ...the demand for is his product is greater than ever before. 03:05:04 Takes letter from wife & reads. CU. 03:05:23 Inter-title: ...of the first to see a possible answer... MS President Woodrow Wilson. 03:05:41 Inter-title: ...call upon the able bodied boys... MS Wilson. more title. 03:06:02 Boys out of college (?) building, look at Farm to Win poster of U.S. Boy’s Working Reserve. 03:06:18 Inter-title: ...sports & youthful games... Track meet w/ obstacle course, 3-legged race. 03:06:32 Inter-title: ...they turn w/ patriotic zeal... Soldier leads boys in uniforms to fields. Inter-title re training at State College of Pennsylvania. Pan over many pup tents on field. Inter-title. Raising American flag on pole. 03:07:24 Inter-title: ...farm has 1600 acres & the boys are given a two weeks’ course. 03:07:29 Pan over cultivating & hoeing, working in garden. Inter-title. Picking berries. Inter-title. Leading work horses out of barn, grooming them. Inter-title. Learning about mowing machine & other equipment. 03:08:53 Inter-title. Plowing instruction & plowing, discing. 03:09:35 Inter-title: Now the ladies get a bath. Spraying & currying cows; milking. Inter-title. MCU milking. 03:10:07 Inter-title: Making hay while the sun shines. Horse-drawn hay rake, loading tractor pulled wagon. 03:10:45 Inter-title: ...day’s work is done. Washing up in basins, tents behind. Singing in tent doorway. Leap-frog. Flag lowering. Inter-title. Medals awarded. Inter-title. Boys arrive at farm, go to field. Inter-title. Boys marching / drilling in large field w/ army officers. Inter-title. 03:12:41 MCU President Theodore Roosevelt speaking. 03:12:45 Inter-title. TR speaking. 03:13:00 Army officers, nurse w/ US flag, two farm boys in uniforms w/ rake & hoe. The End. WWI; WW1; American Home-front; Home Front; Youth; 1910s; 1916;

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