https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/0c432af9-9a30-4db9-b9ee-9f9ec2111935 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This color film from 1966 is presented by the North Dakota State Wheat Commission with the cooperation of the National Macaroni Institute and Durum Wheat Institute, and produced by Bill Snyder Films in Fargo, North Dakota. The film shows the process of planting, harvesting, distributing, and milling the amber durum wheat grown in North Dakota, and the later production into macaroni products. The film was created as advertisement but was also used for public education, distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service to schools, service clubs, and public service television, Views of a sunrise over an amber durum wheat field (00:09). Views of the amber durum wheat field (00:33). Close-up footage of the wheat (00:46). “Durum… Standard of Quality!” title banner (00:50). A hand digs through harvested amber durum wheat from the state of North Dakota (01:00). Cooked food on dinner tables (01:04). A researcher takes samples from wheat growing in a greenhouse (01:13). A grain of normal wheat is cut (01:23) and compared to a grain of amber durum wheat (01:33). Views of the milling of durum wheat (01:36). Durum wheat dough (01:51). Pasta production (02:03). Map of the United States of America and views of the area of amber durum wheat farming in the state of North Dakota (02:12). Views of the durum wheat farmers prepping their fields for planting (02:23). Their planter machinery is loaded with grains (02:42). The planters run across the fields (02:47). Sun shining through a cloudy sky (02:56). Sprouting amber durum wheat seeds (03:00). Green fields (03:19). Sun shining through a cloudy sky (03:31). Sunset (03:35). Day time (03:41). Gray clouds (03:45). Lightning storm and heavy rain (03:49). Harvesters run across the amber durum fields (03:57). The cut down wheat lies to dry under the sun (04:25). A farmer arrives and tests the grain by eating it (04:30). He uses a moisture meter to test the grain (04:49). The dry durum wheat is threshed using a Massey thresher (04:55). Combines load the grain into trucks from the harvested fields (05:28). The harvested durum wheat is sold, weighed, graded, and cleaned at the local grain elevator (05:43). A train with cars full of grain transport the grain to the mill (05:51). The grain is cleaned and scoured at the mill (05:58), and put through the sifters (06:12), and purifiers (06:17). The final flour product is enriched with thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and iron (06:29). The enriched flour is shipped off by train (06:35). Water is added to the durum flour to make spaghetti at a macaroni factory (06:41). Elbow macaroni is produced there too (07:40). The products are dried (07:45) and packaged (07:52). Views of different pasta shapes (08:48). A mothers serves her children cooked durum spaghetti and meatballs (09:09). Containers in a freezer with leftovers (09:53). The mother opens a can of tomato sauce and cooks an easy dish (09:58). A school cafeteria serves students food made with durum wheat products (10:08). A chef serves a dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce and meatballs (10:41). Dinner tables with dishes using amber durum wheat macaroni products (10:47). Credits (11:55). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYC23Z5dgtQ Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:25:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/0c432af9-9a30-4db9-b9ee-9f9ec2111935 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.