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Titles.
06:08:14 Montage of southern trees, moss, share cropper’s cabin.
06:08:51 Black farmer gathering peanut vines & stacking. Women picking cotton, LS & CUs.
06:09:19 Man following ox & cart thru farmyard.
06:09:27 Map of counties w/ Negro Extension Agents.
06:09:46 Sally Smith, 110 year-old ex-slave sitting on front porch, CUs.
06:10:05 Family outside poor wooden shake house; other log cabins & shacks w/ kids in doorway & broken chimney. CU hound dog & dogs w/ Black hunter. Very young boy w/ dogs. Windowless one-room farm house w/ smoke out of chimney, 12 family members walk out & pose in front.
06:11:24 Woman picking tomatoes from vegetable garden. LS of cabbage in garden, other vegetables picked. Woman picking okra for canning; picking eggplants for selling. LS men & women harvesting.
06:12:30 Black agricultural agent demonstrating selecting seed corn; walking thru corn field w/ 4-H club boys. High angle LS of corn field w/ men walking thru looking at corn and alternate rows of soy beans.
06:13:21 Harvesting / picking tobacco, MCU. Children tying & hanging to dry.
06:13:51 Men gathering peanut vines & stacking to dry. Family picking cotton; men on wagons pulled by mules delivering bales for shipment; inspecting.
06:14:38 Soil conservation w/ contour planting; men surveying & laying out field. Tilling w/ mules. Men look at clover w/ farmer. MCU.
Agriculture; Farming; Economics; Racism; Segregation; Government Programs; 1930s; Depression; 1936; Deep South; Sharecroppers;
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