FARM OFFENSIVE Part 1

Description

On the need for supplemental manpower to produce food for the war effort. Victory gardens are tended in Brooklyn. College girls operate corn picking machines. High school students pick orchard crops. Mexican workers sort potatoes and work in produce warehouses. Shows many small, but time-consuming farm chores and farmers threshing wheat, picking soybeans and cotton, and cutting and gathering hay.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Propaganda, Information, and Documentary Motion Pictures