Home on the Range
Home on the Range is a short film from ca. 1942 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
The contribution of the western range country to the war effort: wool and mutton, beef and leather. The film shows the western ranges, the sheep and cattle, and the men who spent their lives on these ranges.
Wartime production but this time the theme is meat.
Stock shots: great stock shots of authentic cowboys; buffalo; antelope; black leg vaccine; harvesting hay; barbed wire; grazing livestock; sheep herds; lamb; shearing sheep; a Native American cowboy: John Stands-in-Timber; cattle roundup; cowboys; feedlots of cattle; roping horses; roping calves; branding calves; paratroopers coming out of the sky;
Voiceover: Food for freedom: "the range country's contribution to feeding you and our fighting men." "Our meat is helping them slam the ships together to slam the Heil out of Hitler." "I guess you and I won't mind for a while to pass up a sizzling steak now and then in favor of putting plenty of good red meat to the lads in the tanks."
shipbuilding; windmills; weighing beef| Home on the Range | |
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| Produced by | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Agency |
Production companies | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Agency |
| Distributed by | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Agency |
Release date | ca. 1942 |
Running time | 10:07 |
| Language | English |
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