Summary

FARM BATTLE LINES

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: FARM BATTLE LINES
File Number: AFP-25AP 16mm VTM-25AP Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1944
Description: B W 1944 US Government film of the WWII era, showing how farms and agriculture help in the war effort 00:28:00:00 B W 1944 vs Montage of WWII combat: soldiers running through mist tank drives through smoke soldiers run alongside tanks two soldiers run, flop on ground, fire mortar amphibious tanks cross river as shells explode behind them (It's not clear if this is actual war footage, or realistic fictional footage) 00:28:38:00 B W 1944 vs Montage of war work: man in welding mask using blowtorch workers in tank factory, HA dolly shot factory with smog, all brief 00:28:54:00 B W 1944 vs Montage of war machinery: Gleaming USAF propeller plane in air truck slogs thru mud dense formation of marching soldiers PT boat three bomber airplanes drop bombs CU bombs dropping from bomb bay excellent air-to-air shot of fighter planes in formation 00:31:00:00 B W 1944 vs Cotton farming, sequence: men lift cotton bale onto truck VS cotton fields VS black migrant workers picking cotton, good shots they empty bags of cotton onto truck industrial-size cotton gin 00:32:50:00 B W 1944 ms, ws Paratroopers, four shots: single parachute, sky full of parachutes 00:33:07:00 B W 1944 ws Brief sequence showing fighter planes called Air Cobras firing at target in practice field 00:33:55:00 B W 1944 vs Peanut farming, sequence: Migrant workers in field bales of peanut plants woman drives tractor (distant) two young farm boys pick up peanuts black man uses pitchfork to load peanut plants into thresher VS plows and other farm machinery peanuts on conveyor belt 00:37:36:00 B W 1944 vs Airmen preparing for bombing raid, sequence: Men climb into airplane, shut hatch men inspect bombs on cart machine gun pokes from porthole pilot shuts window in cockpit big bomber airplane taking off INT, gunners aim airplane in sky
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