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Clip #: MF-14B-12
Length: :32
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about a drought in Nebraska that has massively affected agricultural production and the attempts to generate various sources of irrigation.
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Clip #: TFA-392A
Length: 25:36
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
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-306A
Length: 25:17
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary narrated in Hebrew about the formation of a farming community / kibbutz in the Palestinian desert near the Dead Sea.
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Clip #: TFA-311B
Length: 25:57
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
British documentary that portrays how the construction of the Sennar Dam, part of the Gezira Scheme, transformed the agriculture of the once barren plains and improved the quality of life for the locals.
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Clip #: TFA-430D
Length: 7:34
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A U.S. Department of Agriculture film about floods
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Clip #: TFA-63D
Length: 20:13
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Presents the viewpoint that America has often unwisely used its land and forest resources, that all people are dependent upon the land and must, therefore, be directly concerned with the problems of conservation. Documents the misues of these resources and the resulting problems. Visits a New...
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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-384B
Length: 20:56
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A state promotional film about growing and harvesting and other activities in the autumn in Missouri, including the activities in the past of Native Americans
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Clip #: TFA-210L
Length: 07:41
Year: 1940
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of Canada in 1940
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Clip #: TFA-149B
Length: 28:13
Year: 1944
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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