When Good Neighbors Get Together Reel 2 · Part 3

Description

This film examines citizen participation in the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) after World War II, explaining the REA's structure and how a neighborhood cooperative organization makes decisions. In Reel 1, a young couple attempts to have the REA electrify their farm and appears before the local cooperative's board. In Reel 2, the board decides to run lines to the isolated farms. The film surveys the benefits of electricity and shows incubators, electric power saws, milking machinery, refrigerators, and electric lights in operation. This is a United Films production, produced by the Motion Picture Service Office of Information for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities