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Farm Work Is War Work (title brief) Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221718-37

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942

Country: USA

Location: Vermont

TC Begins: 20:55:02

TC Ends: 21:05:53

Duration: 00:10:51

Titles. Pt. 1 of 2 20:55:16 Well-dressed young people get up from lawn & go into library (?). CU of speaker; college students sitting in upper part of college building converted from old barn listening at end of summer to presentation of certificates. 20:56:10 CU ...to certify that Richard Shaw... CUs faces. Dick shaw VO, whining, flashback to railroad train w/ suitcases above seats. kids sleeping, reading, talking. 20:57:01 People off train; boy met by farmer putting burlap bags onto horse drawn wagon. MCU. Train leaves, boy on platform, helps farmer load feed sacks. CUs riding on wagon. POVs. Wagon across bridge. 20:59:33 Farm on hillside. CUs of implements; boy chasing young pigs. Doing chores; carrying lantern trying to milk cow. Dramatic lighting. 21:00:47 Cleaning barn. 21:01:32 Eating with farmer & wife, leaves table; goes to barn to try milking. CUs cow eyes, udder, tail. 21:02:42 Boy on railroad platform beneath sign for Central Vermont Railway, waiting for train. Writes telegram home; hears about Land Corps & tears up telegram, walks & thinks. 21:04:02 Sign: Land Corps Supervisor. Talks to man; girl (Barbara, a Land Corps Volunteer) & wife milking in barn; Dick tries. 21:05:48 Returns for suitcase. WWII; WW2 Homefront; Agriculture; Farming; War Effort; Students; Dorothy Thompson, Scriptwriter; NOTE: If requested will provide any continuous 12 minutes of two cars, 20:55:02 - 21:17:35 at per reel rate.

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