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1921 - USA, Documentary: Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Homemakers. R1 of 2

Reel Number: 220458-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1921,1920s

Country: USA

Location: Tuskegee, Alabama

TC Begins: 05:03:05

TC Ends: 05:17:04

Duration: 00:13:59

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 05:03:57 Intertitle: Rube Collins, typical of many negro tenant farmers in the South.” 05:04:06 Black, Collins, pounding on anvil w/ hammer outside shed. Intertitle: “Hannah, his wife.” She draws water from well. Intertitle: “Obe, one of his boys.” Posing w/ shotgun. Intertitle: “Ca’line, one of his girls.” Girl sits on house steps holding dove & feeds chicken. Intertitle: “etc.” Small girl eats watermelon.(brief). 05:04:49 Interitle: Collins family at work on a hot afternoon.” Women work in field hoeing, men cultivating w/ mules. MCU Resting & playing outside log & wood house: father plays violin or fiddle, children dance in dirt. 05:06:04 Intertitle: Neighbor Phillpot tells Collins of a new pest in his cotton field.” Phillpot rides up on mule & shows pest to Collins cultivating in cotton field. CU weevil. They ride off & thru town town to White landlord comes out of building. County agent & others gather to look at weevil in cotton boll. CUs boll weevils. 05:08:00 Intertitle: You can grow cotton in spite of the boll weevil by picking up the squares & burning them.” 05:08:14 Black kids in field gather & burn bolls to get rid of boll weevil. Intertitle re cultivating. Men cultivating cotton w/ mules. 05:09:02 Intertilte: re crop diversification / rotation. Black man cultivating corn. (brief) 05:09:27 Intertitle: Two years later, better farming has given the Collins family a better home, and a local negro agent to assist the white county agent... 05:09:45 Collins family outside newly prosperous Black farmer’s house. 05:10:03 Intertitle: “In 1906 at Tuskegee Institute...” Pan over Tuskegee Institute exterior. Black college students out of building. White USDA representative enters. Photograph of Booker T. Washington. Exterior Institute, some buildings under construction. Titles re size etc. 05:12:22 Woodworking shop w/ Black instructors & students in ties. 05:12:36 Intertitle re transplanting sweet potatoes in field. Farmer on tractor pulling planter. Pure-bred dairy herd at Tuskegee from field; filling silo. Loading original Jessup wagon that took first Negro teachers to farms w/ early equipment. 0513:57 Intertitle re White Department of Agriculture representative talking in field w/ Black graduate. Black supervisor w/ State extension director in office offering job to graduate. Graduate in office of State Extension Director talking, reading from note pad. Director signs papers. 05:15:50 Black agent shows how to inoculate large hog against cholera, pig held down by men. 05:16:10 Intertitle re instruction in pruning and spraying the home orchard. Instructing blacks. Showing how to adjust mule harness to farmer in corn field. Segregation; American South; Rural South; Poverty; Farming; Racism; Ethnic; Instruction; Teaching; Negoes; Educational Films; 1920s; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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