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WOMAN IRONING. BLACK AND WHITE. "CLOTHES COME FROM COTTON CLOTH."
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INTRODUCES COTTON AS A PLANT AND ITS CULTIVATION. WHITE BULBS WITH FIBERS ATTACHED TO THEM. PERSON PICKING COTTON. CAN BE SPUN INTO THREADS TO MAKE FABRIC. SEEDS FOR CATTLE FOOD AND OILS AND FATS FOR COOKING. UNITED STATES GROWS MORE COTTON THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. SOUTHERN US.
04:12:32 68.07
DESCRIBES WHY SOUTHERN US GROWS MOST COTTON IN UNITED STATES. KNOWN AS THE COTTON BELT. DISCUSSES AS HOW IT DEVELOPED. PLANTATIONS DEVELOPED WHERE TREES WERE CUT DOWN. ANIMATED CARTOONS SHOWING GROWTH OF COTTON IN SOUTHERN US. BROUGHT IN "LABORERS" FROM OTHER COUNTRIES THAT WORKED ON FIELDS.
04:13:40 136.07
ELI WHITNEY CREATED COTTON GIN TO SEPARATE SEEDS FROM COTTON. MORE LAND WAS CLEARED FOR COTTON. THE COTTON BELT EXPANDED AS IT BECAME A VERY IMPORTANT MONEY CROP ON THE PLANTATIONS. THE RAILROADS OPENED UP AND CITIES GREW ON THE RIVER PORT AND WHERE THE RAILROADS CROSSED INTO.
04:15:07 223.07
AFTER CIVIL WAR, FARMERS WERE TOO POOR TO OWN LAND. CORN AND CROPS TO FEED PEOPLE AND ANIMALS, BUT COTTON REMAINED TO BE THE POPULAR CROP. HEAVY RAINS OFTEN WASHED AWAY SOIL. FARMERS USED FERTILIZER TO TRY AND ENRICH SOIL. THEN A BEETLE FROM MEXICO CAME AND ESSENTIALLY DESTROYED THE CROPS IN THE AREA. MANY FARMS LEFT THE FARMS BECAUSE OF POOR SOIL AND THE UNKNOWN MARKET PRICE THEY WOULD RECEIVE FOR THEIR CROPS. THEY MOVED TO THE CITIES.
04:16:02 278.07
FARMERS WHO STAYED ON FARMS SPENT LESS MONEY ON LABOR FOR MACHINES. SHOTS OF FARMER ON TRACTOR. COTTON AND OTHER CROPS WERE GROW, THUS, WITH LESS EXPENSE. REPLACEMENT OF MULE WITH TRAFFIC WAS IMPORTANT IN FARMING PRACTICE. COTTON AS A CROP IS LESS IMPORTANT CONTEMPORANEOUSLY IN AGRICULTURE OF THE SOUTH.
04:17:03 339.07
LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IS STILL FAIRLY PRODUCTIVE TO THIS DAY (1960s) IN PRODUCING COTTON. AERIAL VIEW OF FIELDS. DISCUSSES HOW THE FIELDS ARE LAID OUT AND HOW FARMERS PLANT. CHEMICALS SPRAYED ON PLANTS TO PROTECT FROM BEETLES AND SO THE LEAVES OF BULBS WILL FALL OFF TO MAKE FOR EASIER PICKING. SENT TO GINS TO SEPARATE FIBERS AND BALE THEM. OTHER CROPS ARE CULTIVATED ON THIS LAND AND HELP THE LOCAL ECONOMIES. IN THIS SAME AREA, ARE THE DEALERS OF GASOLINE, FUEL OIL, AND FERTILIZER. MEMPHIS' GROWTH THANKS TO COTTON.
04:19:30 486.07
MEMPHIS IS THE LARGEST COTTON EXCHANGE ON LAND IN THE WORLD. THE FIBERS ARE MEASURED. MEMPHIS HAS A COTTON PARADE. ALL WHITE CHILDREN IN CLIP. WEST TEXAS ALSO DEPENDS HEAVILY ON COTTON, BUT THESE COTTON FIELDS ARE IRRIGATED. FARMERS MOVED TO EAST OF MISSISSIPPI. BLACK BELT ONCE WAS A HUGE RESOURCE FOR COTTON, NOW, HARDLY ANY COTTON CAN BE FOUND THERE AT ALL.
04:21:58 634.07
SOME COTTON IS GROWN IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. MOST OF THE COTTON IS STILL PICKED BY HAND. DISCUSSES PROCESS OF CULTIVATING COTTON HERE. RAISING OF LIVESTOCK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE COTTON. PEACH PRODUCTION IS ALSO HUGE. CHICKEN PRODUCTION IN GEORGIA PIEDMONT AREA. TEXTILE INDUSTRY GREW AND DEPENDS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION OF COTTON. OTHER FACTORIES CREATE RAYLON, NYLON, ETC. STEEL FACTORIES ARE ALSO IN AREA OF BIRMINGHAM.
04:25:00 816.07
IMPORTANCE OF WATER, HYDROELECTRIC POWER, DAMS, WATER FROM RIVERS. WATER IS ALSO CARRIED FROM PIPELINES. RAIL, COMMERCE, ETC.. DALLAS BECAME A BIG CITY BECAUSE OF COTTON, AND REMAINED LARGE BECAUSE OF OIL. ATLANTA BECAME A BIG CITY BECAUSE OF COTTON AS WELL, BUT REMAINED ONE BECAUSE OF ITS WHOLESALE GOODS AND RETAIL SHOPPING.
04:26:23 899.07
SUMMARY OF HISTORY OF COTTON IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES AND ITS ECONOMIC EFFECT ON THESE REGIONS. END OF CLIP.
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Year: 1961  Color: Black & White
Genre: AGRICULTURE

Description: TELLS THE STORY OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE COTTON GROWING AREAS OF THE SOUTHERN U.S. DESCRIBES EARLY IMPORTANCE OF COTTON AS A MONEY CROP & THE MODERN, LESS DOMINANT COTTON-GROWING ACTIVITIES WHICH HAVE BECOME MECHANIZED IN AN AREA RECENTLY INDUSTRIALIZED & URBANIZED. SOUTHERN BLACK SHARE CROPPING PICKING COTTON COTTON GIN.

Keywords: cotton gin


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