Death To Weeds

Creator: Handy (Jam) Organization

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description:

DEATH TO WEEDS (1947, sound, 21 min, color, 16mm)

Sponsor: Dow Chemical Co. Production Co.: Jam Handy Organization. Narrator: Al Prough. Resources: Copyright 3Mar47 and 5Mar74 MU1751. Holdings: LC/Prelinger.

Promotional film introducing Dow products containing 2,4-D, the first successful selective herbicide. Beginning with a faux-medieval “death sentence” to weeds, the short makes its point by showing crops before and after the application of the new herbicide, the process of applying the product through crop dusting, and a time-lapse sequence of a weed withering in a pot. note: Produced in Kodachrome. Viewable online at the Internet Archive, www.archive.org/-details/DeathtoW1947. 

Complete Record: DEATH TO WEEDS (1947, sound, 21 min, color, 16mm) Sponsor: Dow Chemical Co. Production Co.: Jam Handy Organization. Narrator: Al Prough. Resources: Copyright 3Mar47 and 5Mar74 MU1751. Holdings: LC/Prelinger. Promotional film introducing Dow products containing 2,4-D, the first successful selective herbicide. Beginning with a faux-medieval “death sentence” to weeds, the short makes its point by showing crops before and after the application of the new herbicide, the process of applying the product through crop dusting, and a time-lapse sequence of a weed withering in a pot. note: Produced in Kodachrome. Viewable online at the Internet Archive, www.archive.org/-details/DeathtoW1947.