Rural Americana, Small Town USA, ca 1950

Rural Americana, Small Town USA, ca 1950 Man & small boy pulls up to store, men sitting in front; owner of store pumps gas. CU, boy watching. County courthouse, Shelbyville. Ed as county commissioner. School Bus unloading kids & they buy popsicles. Farm and Agriculture Agent talking w/ farmer about corn. Farmer spraying tobacco plants as men look at leaves eaten. Team of horses pulling group on a hayride to a picnic thru farm lane; woman playing accordion on wagon. Picnic by pond w/ fiddler & accordion playing as people listen. 06:41:30 Silhouetted wagon w/ people going home. 06:41:50 Interior of country store by wood stove; radio; men reading newspaper. Men talking & arguing. 06:42:45 People walking from country store to church; others walking across hanging bridge. Shaking hands & going into church. 06:43:36 Locomotive pulling into station & man unloads Sunday newspaper; into pick-up & hauled to country store along paved road. People waiting for the paper; storekeeper passes them out. Kids reading comic strips; women reading fashions. Storekeeper & daughter walk next door to home. Pray before lunch. 06:45:58 Putting wood on fire in store. Man buying groceries. The End. Small Town Rural Americana ca 1950; Democracy; Freedom; Participation; Post-WWII Propaganda; Note: Made for educating about democratic ideals of USA.