New Ways In Farming Pt. 1 of 2

New Ways In Farming Pt. 1 of 2 March of Time Forum Edition 03:45:27 Picturesque rural farming scenes, haying w/ farmers loading hay onto wagon w/ pitchforks - superimposed shot of leather-bound books by Burns, Riley, Frost & Virgil. Farmer’s wife & daughter in kitchen making cake, baking bread. Woman taking jars of canned fruit ? from ??; cooking meat. VO re idyllic view of rural life. 03:46:37 Aerials Department of Agriculture building, Washington DC. INT government workers inc. female secretaries at desks, scientists in laboratory, artist designing poster. Intertitle re problem caused by US farmers supplying WWI war effort. 03:47:41 WWI shots - cargo ship w/ banner ‘Belgian Relief’ loaded w/ produce - food sacks unloaded - goods train runby past. Herd of cattle - farm workers harvesting potatoes - ploughing w/ horse - early combine harvester pulled by many mules - unsuitable land used. Post-WWI depression: Dust Bowl - deserted farm - arid land - Great Flood - people in rowing boats near submerged house - fertile topsoil washed away leaving eroded gulleys. US map showing land erosion. Good Dust Bowl scenes: ruined farm machinery - family leaves farm w/ possessions on cart, kids sitting on mattress. Signs ‘No Camping Without Permission’ & ‘No Pickers Wanted’. Trailer full of possessions painted w/ ‘California or Bust’. Homeless family outside tent. 03:49:58 Deep South - poor family eating in shack. Black farm workers - VO re failure of Southern one-crop system. EXT typical Southern plantation house - INT Georgia textile tycoon Cayson Calloway talking about new farming methods MOS - map of South showing Calloway farm near LaGrange, Georgia. Bulldozers shaping land into contours preparing it for new beneficial crops. Calloway poses w/ crop of grapes planted in regenerated soil. Black workers picking fruit & blue berries. Chinese Kudzu ? crop harvested & processed as sileage - cattle grazing - ducklings in coop - ducks on pond. Agriculture - US - 1940s; Post-WWII Economics; Countryside; Animals; Propaganda; US History; Poverty; Soil Conservation Service;