https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/69898f40-e199-4d75-9d02-380f0b3e82ad This black & white educational film "Down on the Farm: America's Agricultural Revolution" is about how the farming industry hit rough times during the Great Depression but then rebounded. Opening Title:The Screen News Digest, sponsored by Kodak. A boy uses a Kodak Super 8mm camera, Niagara Falls. A person skis. Underwater coral reef. A flower. A boy uses a Super 8mm film projector. A man plows a field. Title: DOWN ON THE FARM, Americas Agricultural Revolution (:08-1:36). A farmer in a barn with a cow. Milk is poured into a pail. A boy brings in wood, his mother takes some and cooks on a wood burning stove. She opens a pot. A pail of water is poured into a bigger bin. A boy carries a gas lamp. The woman washes laundry. Cars in the big city. Lots of people and cars. Men punch in for work. The assembly line, car engines move along. A car is constructed. Cars drive off the line. Charles Lindbergh and his single engine, high wing monoplane - Spirit of St. Louis. The plane flies into the sky. A ticker tape parade in NYC for Charles Lindbergh (1:37-3:33). Newspaper headline: Depression Cripples U.S. A man carries an unemployed sign. Men seek work. Men on benches. FDR becomes President in early 1933. Depression worsens, men in tent communities. Children and women in a makeshift shelter. A child drinks soup from a ladle. A man uses a sledgehammer. A man and his wife sit and talk about why they live on the highway. A man and his family load up the family car. Cows on a farm (3:34-5:46). Farmers had no one to sell to and had to give up the farms. Two vehicles full of a family drive off from the farm. Sun over farmland. A dust storm sweeps across farmland. A family walks during the dust storm. Dust is piled up. Cows walk amongst the dust, they paw at the dirt (5:47-7:05). A man walks amongst the dirt. A brutal sun high above. Farmers talk about the conditions. A wheel sits idle. A wire fence. Effects of the dust bowl. Construction is done near farmland to create waterways for them. A new dam, water flows from the dam. A man climbs a pole. Electricity on the farm. A woman has an electric washing machine, a running sink, a radio. Tractors on the farm lands (7:06-9:20). December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. A ship is attacked and explodes. Draft has begun. Men in uniform, a man eats a donut. Servicemen assist farmers during crop time due to a lack of help. Servicemen carry boxes. Soldiers wade through water, WW2. Japanese surrender. G.I.s come home, a parade. Aerial shot of suburban homes. Great growth for the American economy. A reaper machine moves through the fields. Tractors help farm crops (9:21-11:26). Chickens in cages on the farm. A shelf of eggs. Eggs move down a conveyor belt. Shelves of eggs. Baby chicks. A chicken hatches from an egg. Turkeys. A man shaves a sheep. A girl cleans a cow an other youngsters clean farm animals. Cows are shown to a crowd. A farmer leaves his home. He uses buttons and electricity. Feed is blended with a push of a button (11:27-13:59). Cows eat their feed. A tractor goes through a field. Crops are gathered. Chickens in cages. Baby pigs seek food. Cows in a barn, sheep. A dam flows (14:00-15:03). End credit says Kodak only (15:04-15:11). 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=7rWwS467dIw Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:47:58 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/69898f40-e199-4d75-9d02-380f0b3e82ad 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.