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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-328B
Length: 8:14
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Documentary about corn breeding at DeKalb AgResearch.
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Clip #: TFA-199E
Length: 11:00
Year: 1948
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film about nomads
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Clip #: MF-22H
Length: 2:39
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Corn from harvest to can in Minnesota in the 1950s.
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Clip #: MF-4D-2
Length: 9:00
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
1950s film about the United States Social Security system.
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Clip #: TFA-115C
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Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Nomad life in the Arab regions in the 1920s.
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Clip #: TFA-229B
Length: 17:31
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A journey through New Mexico in the 1950's.
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Clip #: TFA-328C
Length: 10:28
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A brother and sister, accompanied by their mother, hike up a Swiss Alps mountain to visit their father and older brother working at the family summer pasture.
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Clip #: TFA-264C
Length: 15:44
Year: 1939
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The children of the Balkan Peninsula, who when not attending school, perform agricultural duties on their family farms, including tending to the animals, picking crops and making traditional Balkan handicrafts.
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Clip #: TFA-249C
Length: 11:13
Year: 1936
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Catching and taming African elephants.
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