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| keywords: great plains, dust bowl, farmers, farmland, deserted farmhouse, depression era, homeless camp |
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Synopsis: Deep plowing of the topsoil of the Great Plains region of the United States from 1930 to 1936 coupled with severe drought conditions leads to the dust bowl, where millions of acres of farmland is blown away by the high winds and dust storms force thousands of people to leave for other states.
Shows herds of cattle grazing on prairie grass before the plow. Settlers lined up for a land rush. WWI caused wheat prices to soar and more land was plowed under. Shows drought conditions, abandoned farm equipment, dust storms, deserted farmhouses and farms, poor and desperate Okie families leave the farms and migrate west with all of their belongings on a truck or in a car. Depression era roadside camp. |
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Information: 1936 BW (2 reels = 25 min) |
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PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS
REEL 1 (16:29 min) HD: $549.00 | NTSC: $449.00 | PAL: $499.00
Story of the Great Plains, a wind-swept grass lands that was turned into a dust bowl that stretched from the Texas panhandle to Canada due to deep plowing and a severe drought that lasted several years. Pictorial map of the Great Plains area. View of a vast land of grass, lone cowboy on horseback, herds of cattle grazing, close-up cowboy on white horse. Settlers in wagons and on horseback lined up for land rush to stake land claim. Settlers built fences, plowed the earth, and planted wheat. Wheat combine harvester pulled by team of horses or mules. |
| Shallow plow furrow illustrates barren, hard, sunbaked ground, woman sweeps dirt and dust off house steps. Newspaper headlines “England Declares War On Germany”, “Wheat Prices Soar”, as wheat demand increased. Shows large, powerful, tractors disking the soil as wheat demand and prices increase as America enters WWI. Short clip WWI tanks on the battlefield. Notice from Government General Land Office “Free Land”, Government Homesteads In The Plains”, “Own Your Own Farm”. By 1923 the the grass lands had become the wheat lands. |
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PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS
REEL 2 (8:04 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Sunbaked, cracked earth with dead animal bones depict severe drought conditions. Abandoned farm equipment, windswept, barren land, nothing to hold the soil as dust storms blew away all of the topsoil.
Hugh dust storms turned this region into a dust bowl that forced people from their farms and started the migration to California and other states. The migrants became known as “Okies”. Shows families abandoning homes and farm equipment and leaving with all earthly possessions. “Oakies on the road away from the dust bowl. Depression era “Oakie” rest camp. Images of barren land. |
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