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Clip #: TFA-347A
Length: 19:20
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Julian Bryan film for the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about Bolivia in the 1940s. Records the life of the Aymara workers at the Petaca potato hacienda on the Bolivian altiplano. Scenes of fishing in Lake Titicaca; women in mourning shawls, spinning wool,...
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Clip #: TFA-390B
Length: 18:46
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A promotional film about the paper manufacturing industry in Canada and the United States South.
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Clip #: TFA-162B-2
Length: 3:08
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about potatoes
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Clip #: TFA-65A
Length: 31:20
Year: 1937
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Clip #: TFA-315B
Length: 10:15
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Educational film detailing general history, agriculture and modern industry of the Southwestern region of the United States.
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Clip #: TFA-392A
Length: 25:36
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled agricultural farming led to the Dust Bowl. It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz. The film was narrated by the American...
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Clip #: TFA-168A
Length: 23:19
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about snow surveying to determine future water supply. Follows two snow surveyers at work near Sun Valley Idaho
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Clip #: TFA-328B
Length: 8:14
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary about corn breeding at DeKalb AgResearch.
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Clip #: TFA-80A
Length: 25:54
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A film about the State of Oregon in the late 1940s with folksy narration
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Clip #: TFA-208G
Length: 12:53
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A film by General Electric about how sugar is made from beets
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