Power And The Land R1 of 4

04:00:22 Narration: “Since the picture you are about to see was produced the rural electrification picture has changed greatly...” Map of US showing agency locations.. “By 1951...” 04:00:47 Title: Power and The Land Prod. for the Rural Electrification Administration, Department of Agriculture. Dir. Joris Ivens; Commentary, Stephen Vincent Benet; Music, Douglas Moore; Photography, Floyd Crosby, Arthur Ornitz; Narrator, William P. Adams; Script, Edwin Locke; Editor, Helen Van Dongen. People appearing: William Parkinson (Bill & Hazel) family & others members of teh Belmont Electric Cooperative, St. Clairsville, Ohio. Prologue... 04:02:25 Dawn light, birds flying over silhouetted trees. Farmer Bill Parkinson w/ two older sons down path carrying lantern; in barn scooping feed & feeding milk cows. Milk stool, Bill Parkinson milking. CUs. lantern hanging. 04:03:58 Hazel Parkinson hand pumping water, carrying to house; into kitchen. CU clock 5:05. Lighting cast iron wood cooking stove. Boy brings in wood, daughter at table. CUs pot, chimney, horses grazing; MS sun rising thru fog. 04:05:33 Bill blows lanterns out in barn. CU finishing milking, pouring bucket into can. Hired man or son hand pumping water for milk cooling house. Cows out into pasture 04:07:17 Pan across farms on rolling hills, clouds above. Barn & house, corn field. 04:07:55 Milk truck arrives up gravel lane. Boy out of outhouse, runs down as last cans loaded onto truck. Unload several cans w/ note: rejecting sour milk, insufficient cooling. 04:09:09 CU Hired man sniffs can, farmer shakes head. Pouring into pigs trough. Dust blowing up road. 04:09:52 Bill sawing log, boy chopping wood to split for firewood. 04:10:20 Bill & hired man opening barn door & pushing wagon out. Hitching draft horses to hay mower, down road & into alfalfa field. Cutting hay in long shot from hillside. 04:11:54 Hazel & daughter (?) at fireplace w/ kettle for laundry. Government Works Program; Depression; Pre-WWII; Farmers; Farming; 1940; 1930s; 1940s;