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1920s & 1930s Mid-West Agriculture

Reel Number: 221303-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920s-1930s

Country: Canada,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 15:55:43

TC Ends: 16:07:12

Duration: 00:11:29

1920s & 1930s Mid-West Agriculture Harvesting grain w/ threshing machine, pitchforks & horses. Horse pulled Massy-Harris swather & binder from various angles. Grain out of auger into wagon. Chain drive of thresher in MCU. Combine pulled by cleated tractor. Men pitching sheaves of straw or grain. 15:58:42 Large belt driven thresher machines w/ horse drawn wagon of bundles up & unloaded. Men pitching in. Steam thresher & man shoveling coal into boiler. Close-up of belt drive w/ governor visible. 16:00:59 Man riding swather. Threshing machine & large steam tractor. 16:01:49 Men in grain field inspecting grain. Combine. 16:02:24 Ticker-tape. Farmer turning out empty pockets of overalls. Large tractor plowing w/ shallow two-bottom plow. 16:03:48 CU wheat. Cattle up loading chute into railroad car. Riverbank scene. 16:04:25 Buffalo running in MS. Camera pans on bison. MCU. 16:05:37 Many teams pulling wagons leveling fields or digging reservoir. Prairie landscape shots. Dust blowing. Dry lake reservoir. Large wagon loads of hay or straw to farmyard & pitched into stack. Farming; Dust Bowl; Drought; Depression; Economics;

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