| IT'S A TOPSY TURVEY WORLD TODAY! Comment on the American depression - corn is s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5477 |
| Catalog #: | 52856 | |
| Clip Number: | 52856-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 32/89 | |
| Timecode: | 01:38:56 - 01:39:30 | |
| Location: | Nebraska | |
| Year Shot: | 1932 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Misc LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Nebraska | |
| Description: | "Nebraska. 'It's a topsy turvey World today!' Corn for coal - whilst thousands in the cities starve - reflects chaotic conditions in America." Nebraska, United States of America. Rural scene of man shoveling and dumping contents into the back of a cart. A car is parked on the country road in the distance. Men standing in front of the town grocery unload burlap sacks from the back of a truck. Men walk out of a 'Produce' shop carrying goods. A horse drawn carriage pulls up at a gas station. The carriage drives past the front of a school building. Children come and get corn on the cobs from the back of the carriage. Back in town again, a man shovels coal from the back of a truck into a sack. A woman pays men at the back of a truck parked in the street. CU two buckets - one full of corn with note - '1bu Corn 35 lbs. Value 5 c' - one full of coal - '1bu Coal 80 lbs. Value 45 c'. A man feeds corn into the flames of a small stove. (Good small town lifestyle footage from the early 1930's) | |
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