| THE COTTON PICKERS LAMENT Workers Using Mechanical Cotton Picker | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6750 |
| Catalog #: | 432819 | |
| Clip Number: | 432819-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 163 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Fiber, Cotton | |
| Description: | THE COTTON PICKERS' LAMENT New mechanical cotton picker in use in the Southern USA. Mechanical devices are used to pick cotton. United States LS team of African American men working in cotton field, using machine to harvest the cotton. The machine is a big boxy thing w/ 4 tubes sticking out of it like arms. Looks like some nightmare vaccum cleaner! MS workers bending over in field, holding the tube up to cotton plant so that it can suck the bolls of cotton up into the machine. CU one man doing this. | |
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