Summary

Farm Garden

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Title: Farm Garden
File Number: DN-SLB-016 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Educational
Year: 1942
Description: 11:02:37:00 Color 1942 Sd. WWII Victory Gardens. Plan worked out for quarter acre garden. VO, 'Here's the early garden.' As VO lays out garden, vegetables appear on model. Four rows of early potatoes appear, two double rows of peas, one row of cabbage, double row of carrots and beets, one double row of greens, tomatoes, peppers, radishes and onions near house. Asparagus and rhubarb at side, pole beans fill in much space, sweet corn along fence, lima beans. 11:03:36:00 Color 1942 Three women sit on porch of house planning late garden. Boy reading. 11:03:52:00 Color 1942 Model of late garden, beans, squash, late potatoes, late cabbage, carrots and beets, turnips, spinach, collards, kale. 11:04:24:00 Color 1942 Woman hammers 'A Victory Garden' sign on post. CU of sign, 'Food & Freedom. Our family will grow a Victory Garden..' Cuts to daffodils in bloom, mapels in bloom. Man takes handful of soil and tests in hand. 11:04:53:00 Color 1942 Boy harrows with horses. VO, re the garden, '..it was manured and plowed last fall. Now, after liming and harrowing it is ready to plant.' Cuts to CU of man cutting seed potatoes. Sack of potato seed. VO, 'Potato rows are 3 feet apart, 4 inches deep.' Fertilizer is shovelled into furrows. Planting seed, 1 foot apart. Seeds coverd with earth from plow. 11:06:02:00 Color 1942 Boy and girl treat peas with dust disinfectant, both wearing dungarees. 11:06:28:00 Color 1942 Young cabbage and tomato plants under glass. Woman planting cabbages, cuts to Dick the boy. 11:06:48:00 Color 1942 VO, 'A piece of tar paper, 2 inches square, with a slit to a hole in the center will keep maggots away.' Cuts to planting onions. Dick uses side of hoe for furrows for lettuce. Jane then shakes lettuce seed in furrow. 11:07:22:00 Color 1942 CU carrot seed from packet in hand, then beet, spinach and montage of seeds. 11:07:49:00 Color 1942 Plum tree in full blossom, good. VO, 'Time to plant sweet corn.' Jane planting seeds, sun shining, Dick follows and covers with soil. 11:08:16:00 Color 1942 Flower blossoms, breeze, summer. Cuts to garden. Dick working, picks plant and eats something, pea? CU of cabbage plant, tar paper still there. Tomatoes are planted and are protected from worms by paper collars. Pepper plants that were grown in kitchen window are planted in garden, Dick waters. 11:09:46:00 Color 1942 Dick and man sow lima beans. 11:10:01:00 Color 1942 Thinning plants. Dick on knees weeding around carrot plants, VO mentions pig weed and lambs quarter. Cuts to MWA of garden, Jane and Dick weeding. 11:10:45:00 Color 1942 Sd. Using Panzer hoe to weed between rows of vegetables. 11:11:08:00 Color 1942 VO, 'A horse cultivator may do the job much faster,' man works with horse. 11:11:27:00 Color 1942 CU of rotten plant, pests and bugs. Cuts to Dick spraying plants, with hand pump. CU cabbage worm on head of cabbage that's been attacked and eaten. 11:12:19:00 Color 1942 CU of cabbage that has 'the yellows' or 'wilt.' Cuts to catepillars, beetles eating leaves. 11:12:55:00 Color 1942 Dick and Jane make poison spray with copper sulphate and hydrated lime mix. Grandfather pours from bucket through funnel into spray cannister. Dick fixes lid and checks pump. 11:13:46:00 Color 1942 Jane on knees picking peas, VO, '..excellent source of Vitamin C.' She uses trowel to dig out head of cabbage, is joined in garden by women wearing white sun hat. 11:14:21:00 Color 1942 VO, 'Carrots are rich in Vitamin E, needed for night vision and building up resistance to disease.' Jane picking carrots. Cuts to shot of flowers in garden, women coming up garden path, closing gate behind them, with baskets of vegetables. 11:14:50:00 Color 1942 VO, 'Luscious raspberries are ripening, such delicious small fruit should be in every victory garden.' Raspberry bush. 11:14:56:00 Color 1942 Damage caused by Mexican bean beetle. CU of beetles and eggs on leaf. Dick spraying again. CU to blighted leaves and beans. 11:15:45:00 Color 1942 Damaged tomatoes, damaged by fungus. Cutting stem of eggplant with penknife, darkened tissue indicates fungus. 11:16:36:00 Color 1942 Corn after attack by 'pesky old corn ear worm.' VS of damaged corn. Mildew attacks cucumbers. 11:17:33:00 Color 1940s Damaged water melon. 11:17:38:00 Color 1940s Dick catches chicken and puts out of garden. 11:17:51:00 Color 1940s LS of garden and house. Cuts to man with horse turning soil to push potatoes up, Jane and Dick collect and put into basket, VO says crop is, 'free from scab and uniform in shape.' Dick picks beets, VO mentions that tops are edible when young. Picking tomatoes. 11:18:44:00 Color 1940s VO, 'Tomatoes are easily canned. One bushel will fill 12 quart jars. At least 20 quarts per person should be put up.' Jane and women picking tomatoes. Picking corn. VO, 'Green peppers, rich in vitamins C and A,' picked by Dick. VS of peppers, green leafy vegetables. 11:20:07:00 Color 1940s White clouds in blue sky. Flowers growing, fruit on bush. VO re Victory gardens, '..each a health insurance policy, a door yard savings bank. Each a vitamin mine from which you can take stuff more precious than silver or gold.' Cuts to montage of gardening. 11:20:42:00 Color 1942 VO, 'No work, no spuds. No work, no turnip, no tank, no Flying Fortress, no victory. Bear that in mind all you victory gardeners and work for victory.' Montage of people picking garden produce and flowers. 11:21:17:00 Color 1942 Illustration of vegetables. American flag flying, transposed with crest for US Department of Agriculture?. Credits, photography, George H Ortlieb. Narration, Bill Jefferay. Sound, ? Ford (TC). Caption, 'A Victory Garden is like a share in an airplane factory. It helps win the War and pays dividens too.' 11:21:41:00 Color 1942 This is the beginning of the film. LWS of farm, barns and farm house in northern Maryland. Introduces farmer who's picking up mail from box, VO, 'This is Dad Holder. He helps with the heavy work.' Takes out newspaper from box and reads. Cuts to Mother Holder, carrying basket of eggs. VO, 'Well, she helps with most everything.' She closes gate behind her. 11:22:03:00 Color 1942 Grandpa Hodler sits on ledge in front of red door peeling potatoes. WWII-Homefront-Victory Gardens. Gardening-Vegetable. Plan-Garden Seasonal-Gardens. Effort-War. Patriotic-Victory garden. Flowers. Produce. Trees. Pests-Garden-Bugs-Weeds. Chemical- Spray. Poisonous-Weeds. Tools-Garden. Vitamins-Vegetable. Harvest-garden. Disease-Plant. Farmer. Family. Americana. Seeds-Planting. Propaganda-War. Mailbox. 11:22:18:00 Color 19402 Cut off
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