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Record information – Brief New Horizons
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1940Item number (ISN):22593Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:WARD, HaroldAccession:1971-0042Media:FilmOriginal title:New HorizonsPart:3 of 3Production date:1940Release date:1940Production credit:producer, Evelyn Spice-Cherry; Lawrence W. CherryCountry of production:cnSponsor:Saskatchewan Wheat BoardDescription:A justification of the cooperative system in Saskatchewan. Depiction of the dreams of an immigrant family - settling down, farming with primitive tools, gradual progress and improvements in farming, day-to-day living, leisure activities, schools, etc. Reality - incomes fall through inadequate price policy. Farms are abandoned. Family is shown cutting wood for subsistence, clearing new land, fighting drought and grasshoppers, living in poor shacks. Sequences on the rise of the cooperative system and on solid progress in all aspects of farm life, schooling, leisure activities, etc. Final sequence on unemployment during the depression - hobos, etc. <32mn 40s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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