An American Farmer

Duration: 450 ft.

Year Published: 1975

Creator: Duke Power/ Hearst Corp.

Copyright: Registered 3Mar75 · MP27539 (Jul-Dec 1975) Copyright holder: Hearst Metrotone News, a division of The Hearst Corporation

Complete Record: An American family of farmers adapt to new technology but can they make ends meet? power plants people at desks building, more people working in conferences montage of building construction electrical wires CU typewriter, guy at typewriter corn fields, corn being harvested by tractor, cows American farm American family eating dinner outside, on farm, rain father and son hook up tractor hand on tractor wheel ploughing field son putting gas (pesticides?) in trailer pesticides spraying field dumping seeds into trailer the women in the family being interviewed father parks the tractor in the farm at end of day grain goes to cows for feed calculator sums up total cost pigs feeding wife again being interviewed tractor (massive) in the field, all grain being sown man alone in a sunny field man checks the pods of grain the tractor again father being interviewed tractor leaving vows of dirt son at the adding machine, telephoning truck returning to silo little kid playing football, eating birthday cake father, son and little kid walking through field at sunset