Miracles From Agriculture

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Miracles From Agriculture is a short film from 1960 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Presents today's supermarkets as the showplaces of agriculture. Discusses methods of improvement in the growing, handling, processing, and shipping of food products and the cooperative assistance offered by agricultural and food-processing research centers. Hypothesizes that a nation grows according to the productivity of its agriculture.

04:16:57:25 High-angle parking lot and exterior of 1950s supermarket; audio track Supermarket, symbol of the high standard of living in this country today. High-angle pan over bustling aisles and checkout of 1950s supermarket.

04:17:58:07 Great shot of man with clipboard inspecting oranges on tree in orchard while another man holding a hose sprays water into a bucket.

04:18:15:09 Great shot of large tractor driving away from camera.

04:18:29:00 Great shot of Black men working in field cutting cabbage and tossing heads of cabbage to man who sorts cabbage into wood crates.

04:18:40:14 CU Black worker in field picking stringless string beans; CU basket of freshly picket string beans.

04:18:48:10 Great VS tractor combine harvesting potatoes and moving them by way of conveyor belt into large wood crate.

04:19:21:20 Latino farmer s in lettuce field picking lettuce; two white farmers, one in cowboy hat inspect box of lettuce in field.

04:19:34:06 VS Black workers in field picking celery and placing stalks on conveyor belt moving celery into double deck mobile sorting and crating station.

04:20:18:09 Stacks of crates of vegetables moved by forklift into huge metal pipe; vegetables in wood crates being washing by overhead sprinkler system.

04:20:41:20 Hundreds of carrots moving along on conveyor belt; carrots pouring our back of machine into trough of water.

04:20:49:00 Disembodied workers hands picking string beans off of conveyor line.

04:20:57:10 VS Long line of workers packaging carrots in plastic bags.

04:06:19 Thousands of radishes move down conveyor line, rinsed by sprinkler system; automatic packaging machine packages radishes in plastic bags.

04:21:23:02 Great tracking shot through enormous industrial cattle ranch.

04:21:55:03 Large turkey farm.

04:22:04:22 Great shot of plucked chickens hung by their feet on conveyor line passing butcher inspecting them one by one; chickens are taken off meat hook conveyor and thrown by worker into water for cleaning.

04:22:29:03 Great shot Black worker in slaughterhouse picks up plucked chickens out of slot as chickens passing by on meat hook conveyor are automatically sorted into separate slots by weight.

04:23:32:24 Man in shipping yard inspect crate of celery; CU man inspecting celery; CU man grabs oranges from crate and measure their girth with special ruler.

04:24:13:11 CU disembodied hand cuts apple with left hand while right hand holds apple in place.

04:24:18:20 VS inside factory producing instant potato mix; five women stand around rotating wheel of potatoes peeling; machine producing enormous dehydrated potato sheets; and auger breaks up potato sheets; CU automated instant potato packaging machine.

04:25:15:26 VS bake and serve dough in packages moved along on conveyor line in factory.

04:25:28:22 Whole fried chickens are removed by way of conveyor belt from gigantic industrial deep fryer, chickens slide down ramp; TV dinners with fried chicken, corn and mashed potatoes pass down conveyor line.

04:25:47:20 Woman pours liquid from glass measuring cup into bowl being mixed by electric mixer, camera pans to various ready mixes for cake, jello, also box of California raisins.

04:25:58:20 Two female scientists in white lab coats in laboratory; one scientists mixes powdered milk into beaker; woman powers milk from beaker into glass and hands it to her colleague, woman takes sip from glass.

04:26:17:16 Great shot pan down chemistry laboratory contraption of boiling flasks of waters and glass tubes.

04:26:29:15 Female scientist inspects two glass spheres one filled with blue, the other orange liquid. CU bubbling orange boiling flask.

04:26:42:19 CU small container of B12 vitamins, camera pans over to small container of high-amylose starch, then penicillin, dextran.

04:27:00:03 Camera pans down from bubbling spherical boiling flask to a blue one connected to it by glass tube.

04:27:09:26 Young 1950s to 1960s women with blonde hair wearing purple dress, purple gloves and holding purple flower; shot of woman s reflection in mirror, spins, looks at herself in mirror and smiles.

04:27:24:29 CU strangely arranged mannequin hands, camera pans out to show full body of mannequin in display window wearing red outfit with blue coat draped over her shoulders.

04:27:34:21 Reflection in mirror of young woman with short blonde hair modeling dark brown leather coat, reflection of mannequin in yellow coat stands ironically behind her.

04:28:15:23 Two pig carcasses passed from one butcher to another along meat hook line.

04:28:25:22 Low-angle butcher moves large rack of meat on meat hook.

04:28:31:09 High-angle pan over 1950s to 1960s supermarket aisles to checkout lines; audio track The supermarket, created by research and industry, is the showplace of today s agriculture.

04:28:39:17 1960 s middle-aged couple, man wearing dark suit and bowtie, woman pushing cart, shopping in supermarket; pan points to item and woman grabs it and places it in the cart. VS people shopping in supermarket; young couple with baby in shopping cart pick out baby food off shelf; CU cute baby in blue dress sits in shopping cart in front of shelves of baby food.

04:29:26:12 Teenage kids waiting in line and taking food on plates in cafeteria; young children six to eight pushing trays along cafeteria line as several teachers watch over them.

04:29:50:13 Great shot of mother spooning happy baby Gerber baby food; CU smiling blonde baby with blue eyes being spooned baby food.

Miracles From Agriculture
Produced byU.S. Department of Agriculture
Production
company
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Distributed byU.S. Department of Agriculture
Release date
1960
Running time
12:49
LanguageEnglish
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