Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000465 (silent)

Description: Historically significant footage of California agriculture and extractive industry in the 1930s. Filmed in Kern County, the reel documents agricultural workers in fruit orchards and lettuce fields and on strike, with attention to the equipment and working conditions of the era. Created by a medical researcher studying disease transmission within agricultural communities. With documentation of a wildflower superbloom, and of oil fields at work and the landscape and topography of the region.

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Subjects: 1930s, Agriculture, Labor, Strikes, Extractive industries, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people

Tags: agriculture; farming; ranching; fruit trees; orchards; worker on ladder picking fruit; peach harvest; sorting peaches; workers loading crates of peaches onto truck; labor; strikes; "Entering Strike Area Keep Moving" sign; wildcat strikes; farmers striking; Striking For Higher Wages sign; chicken coops; sheep herds; picking fruit; loading fruit; lettuce; ploughing; plowing; plough; plow; planting; peaches; potatoes; harvest; harvesting; Sierra mountains; 1930s cars; Latino workers; oil derrick; pump jacks; oil fields; sheep grazing; unirrigated lands; sage brush; residence; palm trees; sheep herders; shepherds; donkey manages huge load; sky photography; stormy sky; Kern County; superbloom; pan huge bloom of California Poppies or other orange flowers; crop fields; orange trees; workers harvesting beans; dust bowl refugees; child of migrant laborer looks at camera; Tehachapi mountains; Sierra Nevada mountains; huge crops; wet years; closeup of lettuce or chard crop; single frame of woman health care worker; H.P. Garin Company sign; oil fields; west side of Kern County; Maricopa area; worker housing; sunsets;

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Creator: Charles Edward Smith

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Charles Edward Smith Collection PC-0020, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1937; 1938; 1939

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Kern County, California; Central Valley, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle, plus plus, plus circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 223