00:02:20 95 |
ANIMATED MAP OF UNITED STATES GREAT PLAINS AREA
HIGHLIGHTED BY ANIMATION |
00:03:15 150 |
MS FIELD OF WHEAT BLOWING IN WIND
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00:04:40 235 |
COWBOY AND CATTLE IN FIELD HERD OF CATTLE GRAZE
IN FIELD |
00:06:30 345 |
CU CATTLE HERDED INTO PN MS PIONEERS IN COVERED
WAGONS SETTLING THE PLAINS |
00:07:15 390 |
LAND RUSH
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00:07:18 393 |
CU SLEDGE HAMMER HITS POST WOODEN POST HAMMERED
INTO GROUND HOMESTEADING LAYING CLAIM ON LAND CU PLOW PLOWS FIELD |
00:08:00 435 |
FIELDS OF WHEAT MS HORSE TEAM HARVESTS WHEAT FROM
FIELD dramatic shots of old fashioned farm gear in operation CU HARVESTERS TRACTORS GRAIN POURING INTO TROFT |
00:09:30 525 |
RURAL CABIN PARCHED EARTH DRY LANDSCAPE
DUST BOWL IMAGES DISTRESSED WORRIED WOMAN SWEEPS DUST AND SAND FROM PORCH STOOP OF CABIN IMPOVERISHED FARMER LOWERS HEAD IN WORRY |
00:11:04 619 |
CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES " ENGLAND DECLARES WAR
ON GERMANY BELGIUM INVADED BRITISH WIN AT SEA " headlines WAR DECLARED |
00:11:20 635 |
CU TRACTOR HEADS INTO CAMERA AND TURNS SHARP
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00:12:11 686 |
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES " WILSON PROCLAIMS WAR "
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOR START OF WWI |
00:13:44 779 |
MONTAGE LINE OF TRACTORS IN FIELD GROUP OF WWI
TANKS IN BATTLEFIELD early tanks |
00:14:00 795 |
WWI TROOPS MARCH PAST REVIEW STAND IN PARADE
CHEERING SPECTATORS TROOPS MARCH OF TO WAR WWI |
00:16:00 915 |
PAMPLETS OFFERING FREE LAND TO FORMER SERVICEMEN
VETERANS FREE LAND DEAL CIRCA 1919 |
00:17:20 995 |
CU WHEAT POURING INTO STORAGE CONTAINER
CU TICKER TAPE MACHINE TICKER TAPE MACHINE FALLS TO FLOOR |
00:17:50 1025 |
CU PARCHED GROUND WITH ANIMAL SKULL AND BONES
DROUGHT SCENES DUST BOWL DUST STORM SAND STORMS RURAL DUSTBOWL SHOTS OAKIES OAKIES LOAD CARS AND HEAD WEST GRAPES OF WRATH TYPE SCENES |
00:26:16 1531 |
THE RIVER ( SEE F-5004v for complete log )
MONTAGE OF CLOUDS CLOUDY SKIES RAIN FALLING INTO STREAMS WATERFALLS EXT |
00:27:30 1605 |
CU RAIN FALLS ON LEAVES RAIN STORM MONTAGE TO
ESTABLISH RAIN AND FLOODS |
00:28:20 1655 |
RIVER BANK PAN NICE SHOT OF MEN PLOWING FIELD
HORSE POWERED PLOW |
Description: PRODUCED ON THE BEHEST FDR AS A MEANS OF SUPPORTING HIS CONTROVERSIAL NEW DEAL POLICIES, PROVIDES A RECORD OF THE PEOPLE & THE LAND OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 1930s. DRAMATIZES THE COMMON MAN & WOMAN'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, & THEIR VALIANT CRUSADE TO REPAIR AN AMERICAN DREAM SHATTERED BY ECONOMIC & ECOLOGICAL HARDSHIP. FOCUSES ON THE SOIL OF THE GREAT PLAINS. TELLS HOW THE INDUSTRIALIZED NATION ROBBED THE EARTH OF ITS RICHES, BRINGING ABOUT THE FLOODS & DUST STORMS OF "THE MOST TRAGIC CHAPTER IN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE", SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE EFFORTS OF THE NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION.
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