Agricultural Aviation

Duration: 14 min.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Film Originals

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: About using general aviation in agriculture.; VS cropduster over cotton fields; CU boll weevil on cotton boll; CU Cartoon of boll weevil on airplane rudder; GS US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC; CU hand pouring contents of graduated cylinder into beaker; VS agricultural research activities – greenhouses, fields, chemicals, etc.; VS biplanes dusting and spraying crops (good); Some of this footage is quite scary; Experimental cropduster; VS Black child looking at cotton, smelling bolls; VS CU boll weevils on cotton bolls; MS workers picking cotton in fields, lugging bags, dumping bags of picked cotton onto trailer; CU sprayer applying cotton defoliants to field (idea is to thin out vegetation by killing leaves); VS helicopters spraying defoliants in San Joaquin Valley, California; CU bolls on defoliated plants; Mechanical picker going thru field of rank and matted cotton; Apple orchards in the Northwest; VS windfall damage and pre-harvest drop; Worker inspecting apple from tree; Helicopter landing and receiving filling of growth regulator chemicals; 2,4,5 TP – growth regulator for apples; Helicopter spraying growth regulator as it flies over Northwest river; ECU apple stems connecting apple to tree; CU Northwest applies in boxes; Biplane spraying DDT; VS tobacco field and tobacco leaves; CU tobacco leaves attacked by tobacco hornworm; CU insect-infested corn field (killed by grasshoppers); Leaves and stalks with holes from insects; CU tobacco leaves chewed by insects; CU green pest on leaf; Narrator: “Insecticides are poisonous…”; VS CU insect writhing after application of insecticides; VS muddy wheat fields before planting; Bags of fertilizer being loaded into airplane; VS fertilizing wheatfield (wheat booster) in partly snowy wheat field; VS weeds; VS LS cropduster laying down weed emergence herbicides over field (good); Air-to-air shot showing plane spraying 2,4-D on field (moving shot); CU seeds bombed with 2,4-D; LS two cropdusters marked “Marsh”; ECU weeds, progressive shots after application of 2,4-D; Narrator: “Agricultural aviation is a young giant, rapidly coming of age.”; CU cotton being dumped into bin right by camera (good); Cropduster flying by camera (good)

Complete Record: About using general aviation in agriculture.; VS cropduster over cotton fields; CU boll weevil on cotton boll; CU Cartoon of boll weevil on airplane rudder; GS US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC; CU hand pouring contents of graduated cylinder into beaker; VS agricultural research activities – greenhouses, fields, chemicals, etc.; VS biplanes dusting and spraying crops (good); Some of this footage is quite scary; Experimental cropduster; VS Black child looking at cotton, smelling bolls; VS CU boll weevils on cotton bolls; MS workers picking cotton in fields, lugging bags, dumping bags of picked cotton onto trailer; CU sprayer applying cotton defoliants to field (idea is to thin out vegetation by killing leaves); VS helicopters spraying defoliants in San Joaquin Valley, California; CU bolls on defoliated plants; Mechanical picker going thru field of rank and matted cotton; Apple orchards in the Northwest; VS windfall damage and pre-harvest drop; Worker inspecting apple from tree; Helicopter landing and receiving filling of growth regulator chemicals; 2,4,5 TP – growth regulator for apples; Helicopter spraying growth regulator as it flies over Northwest river; ECU apple stems connecting apple to tree; CU Northwest applies in boxes; Biplane spraying DDT; VS tobacco field and tobacco leaves; CU tobacco leaves attacked by tobacco hornworm; CU insect-infested corn field (killed by grasshoppers); Leaves and stalks with holes from insects; CU tobacco leaves chewed by insects; CU green pest on leaf; Narrator: “Insecticides are poisonous…”; VS CU insect writhing after application of insecticides; VS muddy wheat fields before planting; Bags of fertilizer being loaded into airplane; VS fertilizing wheatfield (wheat booster) in partly snowy wheat field; VS weeds; VS LS cropduster laying down weed emergence herbicides over field (good); Air-to-air shot showing plane spraying 2,4-D on field (moving shot); CU seeds bombed with 2,4-D; LS two cropdusters marked “Marsh”; ECU weeds, progressive shots after application of 2,4-D; Narrator: “Agricultural aviation is a young giant, rapidly coming of age.”; CU cotton being dumped into bin right by camera (good); Cropduster flying by camera (good), AGRICULTURAL AVIATION. National Assn. of State Aviation Officials. Made by Film Originals. 14 min., sd., color, 16mm. Kodachrome. © Film Originals George Oliver Smith & Helen Stanfield Smith d.b.a. Film Originals); 7Oct55; MP6501.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.