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Clip #: TFA-392A
Length: 25:36
Year: 1936
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
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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-141C
Length: 21:27
Year: 1952
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A promotional film about capitalism and finance in the USA in the 1940s.
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Clip #: TFA-277C
Length: 8:33
Year: 1938
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
The growing and exportation of bananas in Jamaica.
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Clip #: MF-4D-1
Length: 13:39
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Film presented by the Social Security Administration explaining how Social Security benefits apply to farm workers, after being extended to them in 1954.
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Clip #: TFA-375B
Length: 10:00
Year: 1945
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film about wheat and bread from the 1940s
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Clip #: TFA-400A
Length: 9:32
Year: 1948
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
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An educational film from the 1940s about a Dutch family who live on a farm near Middelburg, the Netherlands.
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Clip #: TFA-63D
Length: 20:13
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Presents the viewpoint that America has often unwisely used its land and forest resources, that all people are dependent upon the land and must, therefore, be directly concerned with the problems of conservation. Documents the misues of these resources and the resulting problems. Visits a New...
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Clip #: TFA-408C
Length: 10:13
Year: 1954
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An educational film about Norway in the early 1950s.
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Clip #: TFA-39E
Length: 10:34
Year: 1943
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Educational film about the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the northwest territories of Keewatin, Mackensie and Franklin
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Clip #: TFA-169E
Length: 14:42
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
A film about a dairy farm in Bavaria in the 1920s.
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