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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221720-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1936
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 00:29:47
TC Ends: 00:38:22
Duration: 00:08:35
Titles. R1 of 3 00:30:29 Prologue, rolling titles. 00:31:16 Animated map showing US States covered by great plains. 00:32:17 CU grass stalks in wind. Pan across rolling grasslands. 00:33:25 LS Cowboy riding on horse up ridge. White face herford cattle herded across grasslands. CU cowboy watching on white horse; pan over cattle moving & cowboy riding off. Still beef cattle grazing, moved to pens by railroad; CU past camera. 00:35:45 Pioneers in covered wagons past; cattle. 00:36:01 Homesteaders in wagons, land rush across the plains. CU pounding fence posts, plow into ground, past camera tuning grassland. Farmer picks up dry soil & wind blows it, looks up at sky. 00:37:02 Farm seen across plowed field behind barbed wire. CU grain stalks in wind; horses pulling combine / binder. Many mules pulling large combine w/ men bagging grain. CUs. Grain falling. 00:38:12 Steam locomotive pulling railroad train across low horizon at dusk. Depression; Farming / Agriculture; Economics; Man-Made Disasters; 1930s; 1936; USA Western History; Americana; Classic Documentary; New Deal;