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The View From Mr Bain’s Front Porch Part 1 of 2

Reel Number: 220487-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 03:49:06

TC Ends: 04:03:22

Duration: 00:14:16

The View From Mr Bain’s Front Porch Part 1 of 2 About rural community trying to survive economic changes. Flowers , pan up to windswept field, someone throws a ball. Church. Grain plant. Field. LS high angle tiny village, title. Old man’s voice over says this is the best community he’s ever lived in. very old man (Mr. Bain) in chequered shirt and hat sits on front porch and describes town when he moved in in 1901. Field. Barn. Little country road with pickup truck. All idyllic. 03:50:41 At old fashioned local grocery store / shop, little girls buy sweets at counter from large lady, her husband in back. 03:51:12 Older man (school headmaster) CU interview says community is friendly, helpful like in the old days. Younger woman doing dishes says people care for each other, says all her family lives close to each other. View through her window of river. 03:52:04 Man with blue helmet says says good fishing, sports, biking in area. Other man in helmet says no trouble like in big cities like drugs. Views of area, farms, mud roads, cows. , tractor. Cow in pad, farmer washes her udders and milks her with machine as he talks of his work in voice over. 03:54:18 Idyllic farm, sheep in field. flock of sheep, sheep dog. Sheep in pad. Sheep farmer talks of his job in VO, how many have left the community. Shears sheep. 03:56:00: CU Mr Bain, very wrinkled talks of changes in community and farming practice. Lumberjack workers at work with helmets amidst large area full of felled trees, they pull tree trunks out and forklift them. Red truck with tree trunk on top. lumberjack drives. Lumberjack voice over talks of work conditions. Says son in Vietnam war. 04:00:54 Car passes in front of houses. Mr Bain on porch talks of jobs. 04:01:34 Man interviewed CU talks of sawmills, change in economy. 04:01:52: Older man in white shirt with huge stuffed moose head and other animal heads in lounge talks of unemployment. 04:02:31; Sawmill, CUs wood and machinery. Older man in yellow shirt says hard to get jobs. Beautiful Colour.

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