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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

1979-0210

Film

1 of 1

1940

director, Joris Ivens; scenario, Edwin Locke; photography, Floyd Crosby; Arthur Ornitz; Ed Helen; Van Dongen; commentator, Stephen Vincent Benet; narrator, William P. Adams; music, Douglas Moore; music director, Fritz Mahler; imaging assistance, Henry Brant; technical assistant, Phillip Martin Jr.; recording engineer, Al Dillinger; titles, Lester Beall

Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture

R.K.O. Pictures

Documentary about bringing electric power to the homes of the people who live in rural parts of the United States. This film shows the farm of the Parkinsons, a farm family from St. Clairsville, Ohio who belong to a Rural Electrification Administration cooperative. The film compares their life before and after they get electricity. The Parkinsons work from before dusk and after dawn. Before they get electric power, the family sends the milk away to be sold but it comes back sour because of poor refrigeration and they lose money. The neighbours decide to get together to get electricity through a company funded by the government. Electricity brings the family machines to chop wood, feed the animals and milk the cows. Electric irons and an electric stove are shown as examples of the way electricity makes life easier in the home. <37mn 38s>

English

Libre

V1 8204-0045

GAD 0FD579

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