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1950 - Educational Film: Plantation System In Southern Life, The

Reel Number: 221410-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 19:17:05

TC Ends: 19:27:44

Duration: 00:10:39

Titles. 19:17:26 Family visiting pre-Civil War plantation home. Mansion interior & tourists view plantation map. Sharecropper wood siding houses. Sheds, barns. Black man at forge, other Blacks work in field & spinning. Two blacks w/ team of horses trying to pull wagon thru mud in orchard. 19:19:59 Riverboat passing; people on board w/ two Black men rolling cotton bales. 19:20:29 Workers pick cotton (good). Well dressed White overseer or planter on horseback giving directions to men picking cotton. 19:21:20 Plantation w/ aristocratic life & people in costume. Black man watching others, walk past w/ hoes. 19:22:02 Map of U.S. ca 1860 showing locations of plantations & products. 19:22:38 Family into car & driving down road (GOOD); abandoned plantation house with weeds & land. Blacks walking beside field. Cotton field & picking. 19:24:17 Black tenant farmers w/ white land owner laughing; w/ family. Sharecroppers housing & working. Weighing cotton; tractors & wagon on road. Shipping cotton by train & truck. 19:25:45 Beef cattle; dairy cows. Tractor discing plowed field. Cotton mechanical picker; dumping into wagon & cutting stalks. Fields of soybeans, sorghum & peanuts shown. Cotton picking by hand. 19:27:05 Barbecue w/ Blacks and Whites but mostly Blacks serving the food. The End Wealth; Slavery; Labor; Economics; Sociology; Negroes; Southern Tenant Farmers; Agriculture; Tourism; 1950s Americana; Living Conditions; NOTE: VERY GOOD COLOR. NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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