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Farm Offensive - Producing Food For War Effort

Public Domain Stock Footage Farm Offensive - Producing Food For War Effort

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keywords: wwii, home front, farming, farmers, victory gardens, migrant workers

Synopsis: Farmers and other people producing food during WWII. Scenes of vintage farm equipment and farming methods of that era. Scenes depicting the Mexican Bracero Program, immigrant labor, in WW2....(read more)

  • Date: 1944
  • Duration: 00:10:41
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States

Farm Offensive - Producing Food For War Effort

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Farm Offensive - Producing Food For The War Effort

00:00:51:00

Scenes of the American farmer plowing, planting and growing food during WWII. Scenes of vintage farm equipment. CU scenes of a tractor-pulled plow turning over rich soil in preparation for planting. Farmer on a tractor discing a field. Scenes of a tractor pulling a 4-row planter box, Cut to a 2-horse team pulling a 2-row planter box on a farm, WW2 era.

00:02:27:00

Various scenes of men and women planting Victory Gardens also called War Gardens in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1940s. Scenes of teenagers from a big city listening to appeal to work on a farm during their vacation and gathered around a tractor as a farmer gives instructions. Scenes of a college girl driving a corn picker on an American farm. Various scenes of women aiding the war effort by working on farms, teenagers picking fruit in a California orchard.

00:05:28:00

Immigrant labor in the 1940s. Scenes depicting the United States and Mexico Bracero Program Mexican Farm Labor Program initiated on August 4, 1942 when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. Various scenes of Mexican men and women aiding the United States war effort by working on farms and in food plants.

00:06:13:00

Scenes of farmers picking corn by hand, feeding chickens and gathering the eggs. Scenes of farm workers picking and boxing fruit in an orchard.

00:07:07:00

CU, black woman picking cotton in cotton field, woman drag sack of picked cotton to scales. Rows of cotton bales ready for shipment. Scenes of sheep, dairy cows, and herd of beef cattle. Scenes of food processing and packaging. CU image of a farmer, the GI Joe on the farm front.