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Listed by country ,then chronologically     220295     17:22:35 - 17:23:10     1946     France     B/W     Sd     Crickets Threaten Harvest
Devastated crops - insects - pesticide DDT sprayed.     221153     11:08:47 - 11:14:41

     1945     Japan     B/W     SIL     [Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands:  Radio Station WXLH Opened - DDT Spraying]
20May45  Sign in oriental-style lettering Radio Okinawa.  Three US soldiers into large tent, WXLH above door.  Same shot from different angle.  GIs wearing helmets arrive, greeted at tent door by officer.  Three-star & two-star Generals talk outside before entering.  INT radio broadcast under way.  EXT GIs in small groups listening to radios.
11:12:19  17May45  Aerials from plane flying low over Okinawa countryside; plume of DDT visible being sprayed from plane.  Aerial views from open doorway of plane showing town, villages & river below.
WWII.  Communications;  Pacific War.  Insecticide / Pesticide.  Disease Control.  Malaria.

Medical;      221153     11:29:15 - 11:39:50     1945     Japan     B/W     SIL     [DDT Spraying, Okinawa]  (15Jun45)
GIs clearing undergrowth around tent city.  GIs queue for chow; doctor dispenses anti-malarial tablets.  CU GI clearing undergrowth in swampy area.  Digging drainage channel which is sprayed w/ DDT.  Soldier in bulldozer cab.  Black GIs unload canisters of DDT?  GIs on poles fix telephone wires.
11:32:44  Single engine fighter planes on runway warming up w/ propellers turning; taxi & take of past camera.  Mechanic crews working on plane engines.  GOOD
06:33:55  Aerials views from inside plane doorway showing plume of DDT sprayed over countryside below.  INT cockpit, view thru windshield of larger plane (C-47?.
11:36:25  Large tanks of DDT on raised platform, DDT pumped thru hosepipes, men stirring; C-47 (?) transport planes loaded w/ DDT.  GI standing on top of tank mixes chemicals, CU.  More aerial views; good clear air to air shot showing plane flying low over Okinawa spraying DDT; shadow silhouette of plane flying over countryside; AVs runway & US base encampment.
WWII.  Pacific War.  Insecticide / Pesticide.  Disease Control.  Malaria. Chemicals  

221029     02:27:36 - 02:28:24     1946     Japan     B/W     sd     Japs Take A Powder!
Japanese doctors under supervision of American occupation 8th Army help spray civilians with DDT to stem potential Typhus epidemic.  Army liberally spraying young woman with DDT pesticide. Young women and children queue to be sprayed.  Some laughing.
WWII.  Medical.    

220458      05:03:05 - 05:17:04     1921     USA     b/w     Si     Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Homemakers
United States Department of Agriculture
Black tenant farmer Rube Collins at anvil w/ hammer.  Hannah, his wife draws water from well.  Obe, one of the sons w/ gun, CaLine the daughter feeds chicken, small girl eats watermelon.
05:04:57 Women work in field hoeing, men cultivating w/ mules.  Resting & playing outside log & wood house:  father plays violin or fiddle, children dance in dirt. 
05:06:16  Neighbor rides up on mule to Black farmer & shows pest; they ride off & thru town town. White landlord comes out of building.  County agent & others gather to look at weevil in cotton boll: boll weevil.
05:08:18  Black kids gathering & burning bolls to get rid of boll weevil.  Cultivating cotton w/ mules.
05:09:23  Cultivating corn.  Outside newly prosperous black farmers house.
05:10:13  Pan over Tuskegee Institute exterior.  Black college students out of building.  White man enters.   Photograph of Booker T. Washington.  Exterior Institute, some buildings under construction.
05:12;26  Woodworking shop with Black instructors & students in ties. 
05:12:40  Transplanting sweet potatoes in field.  Farmer on tractor pulling planter.  Dairy herd at Tuskegee from field; filling silo.  Loading Jessup wagon  with early equipment that took first Negro teachers to farms.  05:14:08  White Dept. of Agriculture representatives talking in field w/ Black graduate.  Black supervisor with State extension director in office.
05:15:54  Black agent shows how to inoculate large hog against cholera, pig held down by men.  Instruction in pruning and spraying the orchard, how to adjust mule harness.
 
221304     17:18:00 - 17:18:38     1936     USA     B/W     SIL     Potato Farmers Use Airplanes to Safeguard Crops
ca 05Aug36
Man loading pesticide into monoplane as another watches.  Flying low over field crop dusting (GOOD).  Low towards camera & pulls up.  Man crowning Maine Potato Queen & court w/ wreath of potato blossoms in potato field.
Oddities; Celebration;

X221217     17:00:00 - 17:10:24     1940     USA     B/W     SD     Gardening (1940)
Erpi Classroom Films
Young kids Betsy & Bill laying on floor looking at gardening magazine in front of fireplace:  look at these beans, we must plant some of them [all voices post-dubbed].  MCU of seed catalog.
17:00:32  Father home, kids show him seed catalogue - mother comes in:  suppers ready, we can discuss gardening at the table.  Bill & Betsy in garden w/ father & plans for planting - kids prepare soil. 
17:02:11  Kids to hardware store, buy seeds & fertilizer.  Planting seeds.
17:04:23  Mother shows Bill how to plant potato pieces.  Planting beans; potatoes blooming.  CU beetles.
17:06:18  Plants fully grown sprayed w/ pesticide.  Picking carrots; pruning tomato plants, worms found which Bill stamps on.  Pumpkin plants.  Corn plants & flower.
17:07:35  August rain, Bill watching from inside & working on account book.  Digging potatoes.  Corn harvested. 
17:09:29  Family having bizarre harvest, Halloween celebration around outdoor fireplace w/ effigy [?] hanging over it - carved jack olantern grown by kids.  Mother tells them all over the world people have feasting and good times when the crops have been gathered in - cooked corn taken from fire to eat.  Bill declares when youve raised corn like this its worth celebrating!
Farming; Agriculture; Kitchen Gardens; Self Sufficiency; Oddities; Tacky Dialogue; Americana 1940s Family Life; Educational Films;

221427     04:18:37 - 04:34:05     1940s     USA     COL     SD     DDT
Medicine In Action, No. 5
04:18:51  CU Many small larvae moving around; moving around on water surface; insects hatching.  Inside box or room w/ many insects on screens; flies crawling around.
04:19:34  Sign:  Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloro...  Two story barracks; sign on building:  U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology & Plant Quarantine- Division of Insects Affecting Man & Animals.
04:19:48  Woman checking bottles & cans in laboratory storage area.  Civilian man & woman at lab counter looking at bottle label.  MCU of can w/ Geigy Company Inc label dated 16Nov42.  Woman pouring golden liquid from flask (DDT concentrate) into measuring container then stirring into water that turns white.  Emulsion on surface after standing, then re-stirred.  Comparing to fuel oil for effectiveness.  1/2 pint of DDT concentrate is equivalent of 15 gallons of diesel oil.
04:21:59  Various dying or dead insects.  Larvae settling to bottom & twitching about.  Samples of corn starch, DDT & sugar showing similar appearance w/ warning not to store in galleys or around food storage.  Man pouring solution into funnel & splashing it.  Man w/ backpack spraying; man mixing solution at large barrels.  Sifting when making mix; breaking up remaining chunks w/ hands.  Man wearing cloth to prevent breathing; oil & powder mixed & added to bulk in drum & rolling drum to mix.
04:25:04  Dry mix demonstrated using small drum mixing w/ hand crank.  Jeep w/ power sprayer past abandoned village thatched huts.  Men starting gas engine & spraying inside of hut w/ paint sprayer.  Crew spraying mattresses in barracks w/ kerosene solution; then springs & bunk frames.  Sailor w/ flit gun pumping spray around sink pipes. 
04:28:25  Two GIs painting screens w/ DDT solution by paint brush.  Another w/ flit type spray gun doing screens.  Spraying oil solution around garbage cans & surfaces.  Man spraying jungle around slit trench toilet.  Garbage pits & other jungle area sprayed.
04:29:32  Man spraying inside plane w/ hand sprayer.  Another spraying w/ fog application in jungle.  Aerosol bombs used in various situations.  DDT sprayed into mens hair & beard; dusting burlap bags.  Rotary duster around garbage cans.
04:31:17  Man spraying fog or dust over water drifting across larvae in breeding places.  Drip can method used on still water.  Man in waders putting drops on ponds; larvae falling to bottom.  Men filling tanks on light airplane for spraying or dusting.  Biplane spreading over field.  Soldier in field w/ applicator.  Aerial shot of four planes spreading DDT.  The End.


221029     02:24:31 - 02:25:35     1945     USA     B/W     sd     B-25 Fights Polio Plague
B-25 bomber loaded with DDT pesticide.  Plane sprays area to prevent spread of infantile paralysis epidemic.  Aircraft shots air to air.
 
X221584     14:08:52 - 14:22:07      1950s     SD     COL     USA    
The Five Worlds  Pt. 1 of 2
Alumni Association of the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida presents
14:09:10  Students looking at globe of the Universe.  Couple walking on beach w/ palm trees in breeze.  MCU talking, looking out to sea.  CU gage turning; radar sweep dial; pan over water w/ reflections.
14:10:13  Underwater shots of swimmers; fish, coral.
14:10:28  Tilt down palm tree to college couple talking in front of heavy foliage.  Students walk into modern classroom building.  Students walking on campus; Student Union building over reflecting pool, MCU of students talking, reading career guide - CU of pages.  CU pretty cover girl of career guide.
14:12:08  Three students meet w/ faculty advisor discuss what they need to consider in studying - the various worlds.
14:13:12  Library book shelf, CUs of illustrations of history thru art.
14:13:58  View into globe through outer Universe shell.
14:14:15  Students into classroom building; classroom, students, instructor.  Ext. faculty building; students meeting w/ professors, CUs.
14:15:19  University President Pearson (1953-1962) meeting discussing models of campus buildings.  Ext. w/ students sitting amid tropical plants. CUs.  Agave.
14:15:55  POV across Everglades grass; Seminole huts.  POV along canal; aeria l iew of skyline & islands of Miami.  Swimming pools.  Aerial over Miami; over U. of Miami buildings incl. Julian S. Eaton hall (opened in 1954).  Students across campus; in chemistry class laboratory, pouring colored liquids.  Physics & gas spectrum, steel balls swinging causing end balls to move.
14:18:13  School of Engineering w/ cutaway gears, drafting, computer w/ electric plugs.  Biological science experiment w/ large balance scales.  Feeding orchid plant; large group of flowers.
14:19:48  Irrigation (?); spraying pesticide from tractor on school experimental agriculture farm; CU of nozzles.
14:20:08  CU tropical lichee fruit; mango cut open; serving mango in various ways.  Dipping net to catch plankton for marine biology classes & seen thru microscope.
14:21:19  Unassembled cat skeleton for medical student training.  School of Medicine & students.  Nurses, doctors.  Ext.  Continued...
1950s; Universities; Promotional Film; Colleges; Propaganda; Insecticide;


XLN 505-022     03:00:59 - 03:11:14     1952     USA     COL     SD     Insects
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
CU grasshopper.  Pan across many species of insects pinned to display case inc. arrangement of large butterflies, beetles etc.  Lobster under water - spiders - centipedes - members of arthropod group.  CU grasshopper w/ titles pointing to abdomen, thorax & head.  Butterflies on flowers - wasps nest - beetles eating plant - flies swarming on food - grasshopper leaping.  Spider on web - centipede - not insects because they have more than 3 pairs of legs.  Insect eggs.  Silverfish young - baby grasshopper nymph hatches - molting exoskeleton.  Aphids & young.  Mexican bean beetle laying eggs - larvae changing to pupae & adult - time lapse photography.  Corn earworm hidden under outer skin of crop.  Ambush bugs & treehoppers camouflaged on plants.  Insects eating crops: grasshoppers - corn borers & earworms - bowl weavel ruining cotton - tent caterpillars - blister beetles.  Moth larvae in woolen sweater; wooden strut removed from house, rotted by termites; CUs lice & mosquito sucking human blood.  Natural controls: birds eating insects - fish eating larvae - insects eating each other - robber fly. 
03:08:39  Farmer burying corn borer pests w/ corn stalks after harvest - fruit orchard being sprayed w/ pesticide - crop dusting plane sprays potato field w/ insecticide - workers scatter poison bait - trenches dug to guard against mosquitos.  INT laboratory - scientists studying life cycles - ant poison sprinkled - CU cockroach.  Montage showing damage done by insects - helpful insects like bees & preying mantis.  Insects are Mans closest competitor for supremacy on the Earth. 


XLN 505-066     16:01:12 - 16:14:21     1952     USA     B/W     SD     Introduction to Biology
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Young girl looking at plants on window ledge w/ mother.  Farm scenes w/ cow & sheep grazing, geese, combine harvester.  Baby being vaccinated.  Trotting horse race [jockies on small carriages].  Sanitary worker spraying pesticide.  Biologists working in laboratory - VO biology is the study of all living things - CU baby rabbit eating - tortoise hatching - cacti in desert.  Diagram showing two Kingdoms of Biology - Botany & Zoology & sub-sections like Ornithology.  Biologist looking through microscope - CU microscopic organisms.
16:03:45  Scientists injecting rabbit w/ disease - serum made from rabbits blood - female laboratory workers packing serum doses.  CUs mosquitoes - men cleaning up swamp - mosquito larvae under stagnant water - biologist in lab experimenting w/ oil coating to suffocate larvae in ponds.  Scientist using microscope; portrait of 16th Century scientist who developed it; CU cells through microscope.  Time-lapse photography of mushroom sprouting.  Parasites growing.  Time-lapse of sunflower opening.  Single-cell amoeba.  Underwater creatures - molluscs - octopus.  Insects.  Vertebrates:  birds swarming - fish - snakes - mammals - baby calf drinking mothers milk.  Man standing upright in studio; fades to skeleton.
16:08:16  Cornfield.  Diagram of photosynthesis.  Time-lapse plant sprouting.  Squirrel eating nuts.  Cat catching white mouse as it emerges from hole in wall.  Skunk family.  Rabbit on alert.  Plants w/ protective features.  Koala bear eating eucalyptus.  Giraffe eating leaves.  Man next to swimming pool - cuts to diagram of human body - lungs, circulation, valves of heart, energy release.  Theatre audience w/ superimposed images of ears.  Internal view of human ear drum.  CU human eye.  Kids by swimming pool.  Reproduction: amoeba dividing into two parts - diagram of flower pollination - pigs & piglets - diagram of human fertilisation & embryo.  Photograph of pioneer biologist Gregor Mendel.  VO re biological manipulation of plants & animals w/ shots of horse - cattle - sheep - chickens - wheat & cornfields.  Closing montage of many plants & animals inc. bees on honeycomb. 



XLN 505-076     05:33:25 - 05:43:55     1952     USA     B/W     SD     24 Hours of Progress
Louis de Rochemont Assoc., Inc. for Oil Industry Information Committee
Oilfield scenes - nodding donkeys, part-silhouette.  CU strange wall clock, chiming midnight.  Early hours on Gulf of Mexico - miners searching for oil.  Scenes showing the many uses of oil:  doctors delivering baby in operating theatre - baby given oxygen.  Clock at 7.30.  Midwest highway construction site - heavy machinery inc. bulldozers.  Airport on West Coast - passenger plane being fueled - passengers look at display of covered wagon models in airport departure lounge - Lockheed Constellation plane taking off & in flight.  Pan from US flag down to kids playing in school yard - mother drops off kids in car - drives off & pulls into gas station to fill up - attendants chat w/ woman driver.  Clock at mid-morning.
05:37:37  Farmer spraying fruit trees w/ pesticides using high-powered pump.  Geophysical crew testing for oil in California - pile driver makes hole, dynamite exploded.  Physicists in mobile laboratory looking at seismograph results.  New oil well being set up in West Texas.  Oil refinery seen from vars angles - tanker moving out - pipelines marked w/ Fuel Oil, Diesel, Kerosene, Aviation Gaseous etc. 
05:39:40  Oil tanker in dock being filled up.  Oil barge up Mississippi River.  SS America in New York docks taking on fuel.  Top shots cars along highway.  Oil canning plant - cans along conveyor.
05:40:49  Good shots oil scientists in laboratory carrying out tests.  CU trolley pushed through supermarket past washing powders inc. Fab, Vel & Ivory Snow - woman shopper puts products from freezer cabinet into cart, VO points out petroleum base of bacon wrapper & milk carton - woman pays at counter - CU cash register 4.98 TOTAL.  Workers in electric power station - CUs gauges - lights being turned on everywhere inc. domestic lamps & neon signs.  Constellation passenger plane landing at night.  Oil refinery at night.  Gas station at night.  Oil well against night sky; workers w/ drill.  CU clock chimes midnight again.
06:43:16  CUs nodding donkey / oil pump in motion under scaffold at oil field.  Good montages.
Natural Resources.  Engineering.  Environment.  Shopping - Groceries.  Housewives.  Transport.  Aviation.



X221272     12:12:49 - 12:22:56     1954     USA     B/W     SD     The Helicopter
Encyclopaedia Britannica
12:13:05  Four-engine commercial plane taking off past camera.  Small military jet taking off & flyover.  Parked commercial aircraft, plane landing w/ helicopter hovering & landing in front of Fly-Eastern hanger.  Pan to another one taking off, side containers to carry mail to post office, POV landing on Post Office roof, seen landing & man out to it.
12:14:39  Man shoveling pesticide into tank, crop dusting.  Along power lines; w/ pontoons landing on swamp.  Poor quality footage of war rescues of wounded, carrying stretchers.
12:16:02  New England Helicopter taking off, circling behind large home. 
12:16:24  Small private plane; two jets fly over; propeller; shape of airplane wing.  Animated diagram showing distance of lower & upper surface w/ lift shown.
12:17:40  Man walks to Bell helicopter w/ blades shown in CU.  Pilot starts, blades spinning & lifting & taking off.  Autogyro footage, several modern streamlined models w/ take off & landing.  Bell helicopter turning in air w/ tail rotor.
12:19:16  Two boys & toy rotor demonstrates effect of tilting & causing to fly in that direction.  Boy runs & climbs in helicopter for ride.  CU hand on throttle or stick.  POV over city streets & electric company. 
12:21:11  Different helicopters   Single rotor, dual rotors in opposite directions.  Twin rotor that can carry 16.  Jet helicopter demonstrated w/ two men on it.  Several in flight close together.  Military test helicopters.  12:22:19  Trucks past on city streets.
12:22:27  Helicopter taking off from Post Office building & tilt up from ground to see it fly over.  The End.
1950s Commercial Aviation Development; Future; Futurism; Promotion; Americana; Agriculture Crop Dusting;

 

X221227     13:15:29 - 13:23:07     1958     USA     COL     SD     The House Fly (Second Edition)  [Part 1 of 2]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Funny shot of globe turning w/ model houses stuck onto various continents & flies buzzing around.  Latin name Musca Domestica superimposed - flies described by hilariously alarmist narrator as one of the most dangerous insects known to man.   Says that house flies spread disease & death, blaming them for typhoid, dysentery, TB, leprosy, hookworm, cholera, anthrax, diarrhoea & gangrene!  Zoom in on globe.
13:16:37  Grey-haired housewife in kitchen cooking.  VO points out flies equally at home in finery or filth - cutaways to litter-strewn alleyway, an unsanitary privy, decaying bobcat carcass & rubbish dump.  Film cruelly cuts back to little girl eating cake at birthday party w/ balloons.  Tests have proved that flies from a dump such as this are capable of flying up to twenty miles away to alight perhaps on babys birthday cake! - baby swats at germ-laden flies - cut to baby crying in crib.  Flies on milk bottles.
13:17:47  Extreme close-ups of flies - VO describes physical characteristics - body parts labelled. Unsuspecting family play in garden while flies devour watermelon on picnic table.  Flies crawl over rubbish inc. fish heads.  VO re sticky feet of flies over shots of them crawling across ceiling.
13:20:45  Laboratory test - fly walking across gelatine plate to scatter fungus - scientist looks through microscope to see spread of fungus.  More gross CUs flies.  Diagram of fly digestive system inc. regurgitation - VO Supposing this fly was to alight next on your strawberry sundae - cut to exactly that, man picks fly off sundae & carries on eating.  Flies crawling over surface covered in fly specks - faeces & regurgitated food.


X221227     13:23:07 - 13:31:36     1958     USA     COL     SD     The House Fly (Second Edition)  [Part 2 of 2]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Man puts waste into uncovered trash can in litter-strewn alley; revolting CU of rotting trash covered in flies.  Manure heap w/ ECU fly laying eggs.  CU showing that 150 fly eggs can rest on a pencil point.  Eggs hatching in decaying food matter - very disgusting.  Various stages of maggot growth shown in detail.  Slow-motion shot of maggot crawling along.  Maggots pupating among trash - time-lapse photography; flies break out of pupae cases & push way to surface.  Fully-grown flies swarming.  Spider catching fly - VO says natural methods not enough.
13:28:10  Housewife in kitchen cooking - swatting flies, the notorious public health enemy.  Insecticide aerosol spray used in living room.  Entomologist using nuclear equipment to test fly food preferences.  Housewife putting out trash makes sure lid securely on, but may still be plagued by the flies which are bred in the filth of a distant neighbourhood. 
13:29:12  Swarm of flies around calves as they eat at trough.  Farmer sprinkles poison bait around dairy barn.  Pile of rubbish at roadside.  Garbage disposal truck empties load into dump site - bulldozed into landfill.  Truck pulls up outside garbage incinerator.  Sewage treatment plant.  Sailing boats by shore; fishing in river.  Good shot fly being swatted w/ The End superimposed. 


X221158     19:11:17 - 19:24:35     1960     USA     COL     SD     The Corn Farmer (Second Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Travelling shot from tractor w/ seed planter, CU Farmer Stone; superimposed map showing US corn belt.  Hoppers on planter filled w/ seed corn - more planting shots pulled by John Deere tractor & weedkiller sprayed.  Farmhouse & yard w/ cattle trough filled w/ silage by farmers son Brian.  Good pan down line of cows eating, another son Ed feeding corn to pigs.
19:13:59  INT wife in kitchen cooking, two sons & farmer come in one by one, each ask if dinners ready - she replies three times Yes, its all ready.  Radio weather forecast heard in BG.  Family sit down to eat dinner - top shot table w/ food laid out inc. corn cobs.  (GOOD).
19:14:39  Travelling shots from tractor as farmer cultivates field.  Pigs moved around pens & selected for market; into truck.  CUs piglets suckling from sow & snoozing in hay.  Piglets in yard eating.  Corn sprayed w/ weedkiller & insecticide or pesticide.  PoV along gravel road & aerial shots Stone family car travelling into town along country road, past courthouse.  High shot main street, tracking shot past store signs  (GOOD).
19:17:30  County fair scenes:  CU announcer at microphone, boys compete in 4-H showing steers theyve raised.  Livestock judging & winner announced.
19:18:20  First corn harvested for silage - chopped & blown up pipe into silo.  Dried corn harvested.  Corn-fattened cattle taken to market.  Stock yard & pens, cattle through gates.  Stone doing paperwork in study. 
19:21:49  CU ears of corn tumbling out of combine chute, harvesting - ears stored in corn crib.
19:23:18  Winter on farm, cattle herded into snowy field to clean up leftover corn.  Corn farming montage summary.



XLN 505-037     08:01:04 - 08:14:39     1960     USA     COL     sd     The Corn Farmer (Second Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Travelling shot from tractor w/ seed planter, CU Farmer Stone; superimposed map showing US corn belt.  Hoppers on planter filled w/ seed corn - more planting shots pulled by John Deere tractor & weedkiller sprayed.  Farmhouse & yard w/ cattle trough filled w/ silage by farmers son Brian.  Good pan down line of cows eating, another son Ed feeding corn to pigs.
08:03:45  INT wife in kitchen cooking, two sons & farmer come in one by one, each ask if dinners ready - she replies three times Yes, its all ready.  Radio weather forecast heard in BG.  Family sit down to eat dinner - top shot table w/ food laid out inc. corn cobs.  (GOOD).
08:04:16  Travelling shots from tractor as farmer cultivates field.  Pigs moved around pens & selected for market; into truck.  CUs piglets suckling from sow & snoozing in hay.  Piglets in yard eating.  Corn sprayed w/ weedkiller & insecticide or pesticide.  PoV along gravel road & aerial shots Stone family car travelling into town along country road, past courthouse.  High shot main street, tracking shot past store signs  (GOOD).
08:07:17  County fair scenes:  CU announcer at microphone, boys compete in 4-H showing steers theyve raised.  Livestock judging & winner announced.
08:08:06  First corn harvested for silage - chopped & blown up pipe into silo.  Dried corn harvested.  Corn-fattened cattle taken to market.  Stock yard & pens, cattle through gates.  Stone doing paperwork in study. 
08:11:37  CU ears of corn tumbling out of combine chute, harvesting - ears stored in corn crib.
08:13:05  Winter on farm, cattle herded into snowy field to clean up leftover corn.  Corn farming montage summary.


221012     05:01:47 - 05:11:19     1963     USA     COL     SD     The Safe Use of Pesticides: Follow The Label [Pt 1]
Combine harvester at work - peaches harvested.  Fields.  Freight train - road transport, night shots truck.  Day shot freight train - grain loaded.  Grain storage silos.  CU windscreen of car with sign Deputy US Marshall official business.  Freight train from Western Fruit Express w/ inspectors; Marshall pins seizing order onto door of freight car; zoom in w/ Seized title.
05:03:38  Main titles.
05:04:14  Man unloads wooden crates from freight car into US Marshalls wagon.  Farmers inspect leaves of crops in fields following caterpillar infestation.  Food and drug inspector takes samples from RR cars as being loaded.  Laboratory tests on fruit showing it to contain excessive pesticide residue.  Local officials on telephones - order obtained from judge.
05:06:14  Farmer Osborne driving tractor into yard.  Farmer sprays fields w/ pesticides from tractor.  Piles of concentrated pesticides in barn.  Zoom-in label w/ instructions not to use within ten days of harvest.  Contaminated produce removed from train and destroyed by crushing into landfill site.
05:08:19  Animation caterpillar; plants with animated insects, rats and weeds overlaid; animation fruit disease.  CU insect eating.  Farmer wearing protective clothing / gas mask
05:09:26  Children run out of school.  Harvesting carrots by hand.  Tractor ploughing.  Farmer lays biological pest control.  Development of pest resistant crops.  Pesticides weighed by man in protective suit.  Liquid pesticides run into tanker.  Farmer sprays orchard from tractor.
 

221012     05:11:20 - 05:22:58     1963     USA     COL     SD     The Safe Use of Pesticides: Follow The Label [Pt 2]
Farmer Rogers drives tractor into yard.  Farmer looks at label on insecticide; CU animated labels.  Vars b/w stills illustrating development of pesticides.  Office - meeting of reps from Dept. of Agriculture and Food and Drugs Agency.  Farmer using insecticide. 
05:13:18  Mother feeds baby in highchair.  Dog eats from bowl.
05:13:37  Development of new pesticide.  Chemical compound in tin.  Lab and field tests.  Man applying for registration of new compound.   Man at desk with books. 
05:15:29  Animal testing - rabbits in stocks.  Food and drug scientists check application. 
05:17:08  Rats used in experimental testing of pesticide (vivisection).  Technician in lab.  Labels printed w/ directions for use of new chemical.  Truck down road.  Pesticides in barn.  Farmer loading powder and water.  Labels.  Farmer on telephone to County Agricultural Agent who visits farm to advise. 
05:19:59  Animation showing effects of chemicals on crop.  Farmer filling tractor - checking spray nozzles.
05:21:22  AV aircraft crop spraying.  Farmer sprays orchard. Harvesting fruit.  Combine harvester.  Brief shots exterior and interior supermarket.


221426     02:27:20 - 02:37:49     1968     USA     COL     SIL     [Supermarket Vegetable Counter; Tidal Basin Cherry Blossoms; Gypsy Moths & DDT Spraying]  Pt. 1 of 2
Supermarket vegetable counter, pan across w/ potatoes, garlic, onions, tomatoes, carrots etc.  Man arranging & tidying up display.  CU holding small cauliflower.  LS of refrigerated open display (no customers or prices).
02:30:27  Customer picking up bunch of carrots & putting in cart.  CU pears displayed; box of red grapes & bunches picked up.
02:31:19  MCU of cherry blossoms.  Fully loaded branches w/ dark blue sky behind, blowing in wind.  People walking around tidal basin beneath cherry blossoms.  Tree filling screen, full bloom; Jefferson Memorial & people in topcoats in sun walking.
02:33:43  Gypsy Moth trap mounted on tree, white gypsy moths flying around opening & inside.
02:34:20  Men hosing DDT insecticide on broadleaf trees w/ along country or park road w/ high pressure from truck.  LS of same; MCU of spray jet into branches.
02:35:58  CU of dead caterpillars in white box (?); several live ones crawling around.  House siding w/ many caterpillars; For Sale sign nailed up, CU.
02:36:55  LS down residential street w/ overhanging trees & spray truck toward camera spraying pesticide powder from mounted pump.


221426     02:37:49 - 02:46:02     1968     USA     COL     SIL     [Moths & DDT Spraying]  Pt. 2 of 2
02:37:49  CU of egg cluster on bark of tree.  CU white moth beside cluster of eggs.
02:38:17  POV of path thru woods; man placing radio w/ long antenna, calls on phone & fires smoke gun.
02:38:50  Pine needles & caterpillars; tilt up defoliated trees behind.  No leaves.  Many caterpillars crawling on branches.  Pan across orchard of defoliated trees.
02:41:34  New England farm barn w/ hillside behind.  Pan across defoliated trees.
02:43:32  CU  White birch bark covered w/ live caterpillars.  Defoliated forest from air w/ farms & road.
02:44:46  CU  Caterpillars on twigs of defoliated tree, pan over trees behind w/o foliage.  Trees w/ some leaves.
02:45:37  Biplane dusting over farms & trees seen from another plane.  Sunset w/ rain clouds in distance or forest fire seen from plane.


221336     07:45:53 - 07:55:57     1963     USA; Lebanon; Greece; Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Crete;      B/W     SD     Common Purpose  Pt. 2 of 2
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson shaking hands outdoors.  POV from motorcade through countryside & mountains.  Cyprus & roadbuilding w/ men & buckets & roller.  POV along narrow gravel road.  Walking & shaking hands in village.  Construction project in Lebanon visited.  Lady Bird & Linda Bird w/ children in hospital.  Doctors w/ babies w/ foreign doctor helping.  Turkish doctors trained overseas in hospital.
07:48:18  Blind being trained to work w/ their hands.  Iranian clinic & mothers in jilbab being instructed by nurse.  Cyprus & opening of new CARE school milk program.  Drinking from glasses & cups in traditioinal costumes.  LBJ shaking hands w/ kids and adults.VO by LBJ & showing archeological exhibits to Linda Bird & Lady Bird in museum. 
07:50:15  Road graders building new market center.  Large modern concrete buildings.  POV Motorcade arriving & VO of LBJ speaking.  LBJ surrounded by group of kids, of adults.
07:51:29  Turkish conservation program w/ terracing & reseeding. Men working digging.  Tent camp for workers.  VO of LBJ.  Freighter into Black Sea. 
07:52:16  LBJ at experimental agricultural station in Iran & research on cotton, plant diseases & pests.  American Farm School in Greece visited; touring on tractor & wagon.  Equipment display.  Students at forge in blacksmith class; welding; bricklaying; woodworking.  Electrical class & wiring.  Feeding cattle & chickens.  Irrigation & man weeding.  Picking vegetables.  More shaking of hands & walking thru streets.  VO by LBJ.


X221653     15:17:37 - 15:27:27          Sd     B/W     USSR    
Siberian Story  R2 of 2
Man walking w/ coat covered w/ insects.  Large gnats covering horse.  Aerosol generator spreading pesticide  from army amphibious vehicle.  testing on water & land.
15:18:34  Mikhail Lavrentyev & scientists & engineers watching waves made in laboratory.  Shots of ocean waves.  Laboratory wave trough w/ graph on plexiglass side showing movement of water under motion.
15:19:12  Blocks of soil (?).  Impulse hydrojet gun being developed to cut coal or granite.  Demonstrated explosions against blocks of ??
15:20:01  Interior of factory building condensors, inventions to control radio power.  Automated machine checking for defects in manufacture.  Scientists working on automation of production processes at Institute headed by Konstantin Karandaeyev (sp?).  Library & he looks thru books.  Watchs wife Anna Yurovskaya (?) on small television.
15:21:31  Husband & wife team of Sergei Sobolev (06Oct08 - 03Jan89), mathematician & wife ? working on her doctorate thesis.  CU of math equations on blackboard being explained to pupils.  Footage of Sobolev ca 1950. 
15:22:45  Large machine w/ two scientists looking at results of chemical tests. 
15:23:02  Scientist working on accelerator for charged particles.  Woman working on equipment for plating metals (?).  Heart surgeon Igor Medvedev (?) head of experimental medicine on beach w/ child patient & others in sun.  People walking past & bathing in man-made sea.  water skiing & sailing.  Recreation. 
15:25:10  Apartment complex & kids riding bicycles, picking flowers.  Houses, apartments.  Presiding Committee of Siberian branch of USSR Academy of Science meeting, CU of scientists.  Students from Novosibirsk University into building; working on calculator, CUs kids of varying ages working on projects.  The End


220444     11:00:00 - 11:08:49     1957     Si     B/W     Germany    
Cavalry Patrolling Berlin American Sector
Soldier  on horseback shakes hands, salutes.  7 men on horses in long shot.  Man polishing saddle; currying horse; cleaning shoes & trimming hoof. Horse led into trough Squirting horse with insecticide(?) .  Cavalry with flag in front of leader also on horseback getting directions. Ride off.  Come to fence that says You Are Leaving American Sector.  Guard post & couple talking.  Men riding perimeter.  Ride over bridge saying You Are Leaving The American Sector.


Cold War     221559     05:50:08 - 06:04:04     1970s;     SD     COL     Dominican Republic    
So Fair A Land (197?)
Scenics:  Waves onto beach, clouds & palm trees, CUs flowers; LS mountain forest; birds.
Title over statue of Christopher Columbus.  Church; beach; tropical valley;
05;51:37  Aerial over Santo Domingo, superimposed w/ map of Cuba, Haiti & Dominican Republic.
05:51:45  Montage:  Santo Domingo narrow street w/ many signs, modern cars, flag, house light, fort, bells, dock w/ conveyor, traffic. (wealth)
05:52:02  Montage:  Woman holding baby by shack; other shacks on hillside w/ kids in front, doorway.  Two men walking to camera.  Men working digging w/ pick axes alongside dirt road.
05:52:53  Zoom in on farm, men & horses; cutting grass, spraying w/ backpack sprayer (pesticides?).  Machetes & cutting weeds.
05:53:26  Montage:  CU faces of babies, children, women, men.
05:53:42  Stack of bananas on stalks; men trimming lettuce, put into burlap bag at market w/ stalls, people.  Lemons, pineapples.
05:54:09  Men on burrows & pack burrows w/ cane or ??  (Narrator describing funding by Congress after 1973 for A.I.D. to distribute.)  Goats, pigs, rooster.  Man w/ powered rototiller.  Spreading fertilizer or seed by hand.
05:54:57  Men meeting to learn farming, around tables.  inoculating pigs, farming & farms.  Agriculture supply store.  CU men getting supplies.
05:56:18  Sign on:  Banco Agricola de la Republic Dominica.  People interviewed, filling out forms, bankers interviewing.  Fingers on adding machine.
05:57:00  MCU hands counting U.S. money at bank window, given to man who slowly counts.
05:57:15  Man leaving bank.  Agronomist on Honda motorcycle by field visits farmer, looks at plants & records.
05:57:55  MCU Monitor & open reel video recorder, camera & men given instructions in using in classroom, in field & taping farmers working.  Group watching outdoors.
05:59:39  Pickup w/ couple standing riding in back up gravel road; Gary & Chris Shay (?) working w/ Save The Children foundation talking to people.  Women tending children in class; CU young children w/ flies.  Women sewing, putting on hangers.
06:00:37  Baby chickens, feeding & watering being raised by children.  Gary talking to A.I.D. Eva Meyers, Nutrition Officer.  Very underfed children, feeding.  Crying.
06:02:13  Montage of meetings, CUs, MSs.  Trained workers in villages talking to others, giving pills, shots, talking to other women (MOS).  CU kids.  Credits, The End



X221660     05:11:05 - 05:31:08     1989     SD     COL     Chile     [Chile, 31Oct89]
Continued from LN 501-749   Man who had been sick talks to camera about benefits of farmworkers union for protecting them.
05:12:30  Grown children talk about their father who was died from chemical poisoning by pesticides.  Picture of family.  Children talking.
05:16:28  LS & CUs  Man hoeing in corn field, weeding by hand.  Huts behind.
05:19:17  View of huts & sheds.  Woman in front of house / hut.  Trash, toilet, hygiene.  Old woman describes living conditions (?).
05:21:30  Farmer washes hands after weeding in plastic pan filled by wife.  Soaps & lathers.
05:23:13  Ditch w/ brown water running; irrigating orchard.
05:25:04  Pile of newspaper clippings about deaths & seriously ill from poisonings from pesticides.
05:28:05  Woman talks to camera about poisoning from working w/ pesticide (?).



X221616     18:00:00 - 18:12:27     1989     SD     COL     Argentina    
[Argentina - La Plata, 28Oct89]  Pesticides
Tape 21 section.  Argentinian man in strawberry field w/ handpump sprayer on back spraying single row away from camera, towards camera on windy day.  CUs of face, hands, sprayer.
18:03:24  Another spraying on plowed field w/ hand sprayer.  Pan back to first man in original closer field.
18:04:23  Swish pan to other fellow walking past, behind, poles for climbing plants & spraying.  Strawberry sprayer.
18:05:04  Yard w/ fire box.
18:05:14  Pull back from spraying strawberries to yard w/ trash outside workers huts.
18:05:52  CU.   Interview in yard asking worker if how he know how & when he has to spray.  He explains.
Stopped interview on LN 501-749 copy at 00:07:30.
18:07:35  Tape 24 section.  Low flying mono wing spray plane, pulling up overhead & circling.  Away from camera & circling, pulling up.  Return run very low & puling up.  More runs.
18:09:12 - 18:09:41  glitches.
00:09:41- 00:  Spraying continues from various angles; seen from side.



X221616     18:12:34 - 18:33:10     1989     SD     COL     Argentina    
[Argentina, ??Oct89]  Pesticides - Tractor & Hand Spraying
Man on FIAT tractor w/ spray rig mounted behind on hydraulic lift; man into field, extends spray arms & tightens in place.  Pulling into lettuce (?) field & spraying.  MCU of nozzles & arms.  Returning towards camera.  Not wearing protection.
18:16:13  Folding arms of spray rig & leaving field on dirt road.
18:17:51  CU & MS parking spray rig in farm yard & dropping from tractor in farmyard.  View of tank sitting in weeds.
18:19:12  CU man washing hands & arms w/ soap under tap outside porch of house.  Goes into house.
18:20:06  Ext. of large building w/ signs on outside, CU:   Agroquimica. Man putting large bags of ?/ in back of pickup truck.  Sign in window of supply store:  MSD AGVET.  LS. 
18:21:39  CU cardboard carton w/ label Tedion; laying in grass or weeds.  Large red louse on label.  CU label Rhodia on bag in weeds near Agroquimica parking lot.
18:23:02    Small brick farmhouse (?) near fields.
18:24:00  LS & CUs of older man w/ backpack hand sprayer spraying rows of peppers or ??.  Man brings folded note paper (?) to him.
18:26:49  CU mixing chemicals.  Pouring water into sprayer from small can; pouring in capful of ?? from small bottle.  Washing hands in concrete cistern & dipping water in bucket to fill tank.  Leaving chemical bottle on side of water tank.  Back in field spraying; takes off tank.  Goes back & washes off hands & arms in cistern & scrubs edge where spilled.  Washes face in same water; walks to house.  Takes off shoes before going in.  CU backpack sprayer in field.
18:31:50  Ext. Cooperativa Bon...  w/ farm supplies:  seeds, fertilizer, sprays etc.
18:32:30  Int.  Man buying supplies from clerk at counter.  Weighing small amount of ?? & stapling in envelope.
Insecticides; Poisons; Safety; Agricultural Dangers; Agriculture; 1980s; 1989; South America; Farming; Aerial Spraying; Hazards; Pesticides;



X221614     14:00:00 - 14:48:27     1989; 1980s; 1990s;     SD     COL     Argentina;    
[El Pato, Quinta Molina, Argentina; Quinta Nunez, 25Oct89; San Pedro, Argentina 26Oct89]
LS, MS, CUs  25Oct89  El Pato, Quinta Molina, Argentina.  Early morning, fog & field workers picking / cutting & trimming lettuce; put into crates.
14:10:30  Workers hoeing small plants (tomatoes?; beans?) between rows of poles, telephoto shot of very long field & line of poles
14:13:20 - 14:17:04  25Oct89  MCU Quinta Nunez.  Man talking to camera (Spanish, SOF):  (talking about using motorized cultivation vs hand labor?)  GOOD FACE.
14:17:04  CUs hoeing, faces of group of men, hands pulling weeds.
14:18:56  LS & pan across field of beans to workers picking & packing crates.  Worker carries crate & CU of crate of large beans
14:19:41  Women harvesting beans.
14:20:25  Four men picking beans, pan to others.  CUs.  MSs  Men & women.
14:27:06  Woman carrying large basket of beans to edge of field, daughter greets her.  Pours beans into crate.
14:27:57  CU & woman interviewed as she picks.
14:29:28  end.
14:29:37  26Oct89  San Pedro, Argentina.  Field crew of six orchard workers thinning fruit.  CUs, MSs, LSs.
14:34:58 - 14:40:42  CU man interviewed about thinning fruit & ???
14:40:42  Shelves w/  containers of agriculture chemicals:  Linurex (pesticide); Nutramin (animal food supplement); Tecto (liquid fungicide); Etherfon; Vivazim Nifoskal Bio-Fertilizante Foliar.
14:42:39  Counter w/ breathing mask, goggles, containers & seed packets behind.
14:43:13  Cans of Ferry Morse  Let The Good Earth Produce.
14:43:50 - 14:48:27  Man behind counter interviewed.  Continued on next card...
Agriculture; Farm Labor; South America; Poverty; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural X221614     14:48:37 - 15:26:39     1989; 1980s; 1990s;     SD     COL     Argentina;    
[San Pedro, Argentina Agricultural Chemical Store 26Oct89 & Pesticide Spraying 25Oct89]
14:48:37 - 14:53:40  Interview continued w/ man behind counter of agricultural chemicals.
14:53:40  View of wall of store w/ shelves of containers, scale on counter.
14:54:33  Folidol-m  (Insecticide) containers & labels by Bayer Chemical w/ toxic warnings.  Skull & crossbones, toxico; Gusathion M 35 (insecticide); Paracien (insecticides) in buckets. 
14:58:18  Farm storage warehouse w/ chemical bags; shelves w/ boxes etc.
14:58:57  CU label Nocivo... (dont store near food?). 
14:59:09  Bag w/ label Capitan (fungicide); Metamidolfos Estrella (insecticide); Dow Lorsban 48E (insecticide).
15:00:59  Tractor w/ spray equipment in farm yard w/ chemical bags etc. laying about.  Filling spray tank from large tank w/ orchard trees behind.  CU Bottle label  vendaval insecticida; bag of Vogen No. 3; bottles & bags sitting on ground.  Other bags, buckets, label.
15:03:00  Rear of sprayer behind tractor.
15:03:17 - 15:07:53  CU man being interviewed about his work; another next to him also.
15:08:03 - 15:13:23  Interview continues w/ same men.  Ends w/ tilt down to worn out canvas shoes, no socks.
15:13:23  Man w/o socks (?) on tractor, beginning spraying in orchard moving away from camera.  Shots from in front.  Man not wearing breathing mask or protective clothing.
15:17:34 - 15:17:44 Black
15:17:44  CU of citrus ?? plant w/ flowers & fruit beginning.  LS tractor w/ sprayer thru orchard in telephoto, birds flying out ahead of tractor.  Tractor past w/o spraying, turns & begins spraying.  Tractor away into trees.
15:20:47  CU leaves & flowers.  Aphids on leaves visible.  CU large green lemon, leaves w/ beginning of caterpillar nest or ??.  Drops of moisture on leaves.  CU lemons.
15:22:16  Farm worker on tractor, gets off.
15:22:33  CU hands dipping powdered chemical w/ tin can & putting into smaller plastic bag.  Chemicals coating workers hands.  Weighing bag on beam scale hanging from tree branch.  Pouring & shaking bag of powder into large bucket, residue into air & face.  Dipping bucket from large tank & mixing w/ powder.  Small can put into large sprayer tank.
15:24:30  Man washing hands in large water tank.  Other man dumping powder chemicals into small plastic bag from Vencara (?) fungicide bag; coated hands.  Weighing.  Mixing w/ dust into air.  CUs face.  Rinsing hands.
Agriculture; Farm Labor; South America; Large Farms; 1980s; 1990s; Agricultural Chemicals; Insecticides; Poisons; Occupational Dangers; Hazards; 1989;


X221615     16:00:00 - 16:18:09     1989; 1980s; 1990s;     SD     COL     Argentina;    
[San Pedro, Argentina Pesticide Spraying & Owner (?) Interviews ca 25Oct89]
Children playing w/ ball near tractor filling sprayer.  Man onto tractor.
16:00:52  Man w/ smoking cigarette weighing chemicals.  Kids playing on lawn, tractor & sprayer leaving.  Man to second spray unit pulls up to fill up sprayer w/ hose from large water tank; mixes chemicals w/ chemical dust blowing; pours into spray tank & dips can into tank & rinses into spray tank.
16:03:21  Pours liquid chemical from five gallon bucket of chemicals w/ warning notice into coffee can, picks up w/ bare hand & pours into spray tank; repeats.
16:04:14  Pours another liquid chemical into spray tank.  Rinses hands in large water tank.
16:04:54  Spraying w/ spray blowing; no breathing mask or goggles.  View of spray drifting from orchard trees.  Tractor pulling spraying.  Oranges nearly ripe.
16:06:46 - 16:13:44  Well-dressed woman (owner?) in bright red coat interviewed re ????? (use of pesticide)
16:13:44 -   Well-dressed man interviewed



X221615     16:18:20 - 21:49:10     1989; 1980s; 1990s;     SD     COL     Argentina;
[Argentina ca27Oct89  Picking Oranges; Sorting Shed Work; Spraying Beneath Trees; Grain; Mother Interviewed]
Field workers dumping baskets of very large oranges (size of grapefruit) into crates in field.  Men & women (?) in tree climbing, picking oranges.  Men picking from ground; from ladders, move ladder & basket.
16:26:10  Men & woman gather crates & stack & fill from baskets.  Loaded & stacked onto wagon, thru orchard.
16:28:27  Teenage (?) boy interviewed in orchard next to woman about rate of pay; woman talks as man works behind her.  Boy talks more.
16:33:08  Men in sorting shed boxing oranges (pounding them into place) GOOD CU of face as he does it.  CU of automatic sorter by size.  Sprays liquid ?? on top of oranges.
16:34:44  Man on opposite side of machine dumping crates of oranges from field onto inclined table of rollers.  16:35:00  Unloading wagon at packing shed w/ orchard beyond.  Man moving tall stack of crates w/ hand truck, pan to sorting machine.  MCU hands sorting & mixing oranges on conveyor.
16:36:43 - 16:36:54  Black
16:36:54  Farm yard w/ tractor & sprayer, man carrying bag of chemicals.
16:37:30  Tractor w/ low canvas covered boom & chemical tank behind driver spraying weeds under tree.  CUs of operator & tractor.  GOOD
16:39:52  Brown dying weeds under & between orchard trees.
16:40:45  Tractor pulling sprayer followed by two men w/ high pressure hoses spraying trees.  Men wrapped in cloth for protection.
16:41:03--16:41:05  Black
16:41:02  CU loading water into large spray tank pulled behind tractor.  Two men standing by pipe next to chemicals.  Man walks in, pours chemicals or ?? onto sticks & lights.
16:42:36  LS John Deere tractor seen on road across grain field, pull back to show very large green grain field.  Highway in distance.
16:44:09 - 16:49:10  MS  woman on bench in front of brick & mud house w/ four young children interviewed about health issues & subsequent death of one of her children due to poisoning.



X221615     17:08:53 - 17:26:16     1989; 1980s; 1990s;     SD     COL     Argentina;
[Argentina ca Oct89  Well w/ hand pump & mixing pesticide or ?? for hand spraying]
Man w/ backpack sprayer walking back to water tank & mixes new batch of spray, puts on tank leaves.
17:13:07 - 17:14:57  Sprayer interviewed then walks off. re:
17:14:58  Men & children picking strawberries.  Rows lined w/ plastic.  CU ripe strawberry; CU green strawberries.  Blossoms on plants.
17:18:44  Man pumping hand pump in front of house at laundry tubs.  Pours water into barrel; mixes chemicals.  Fills back sprayer tank w/o gloves, etc.  Chemicals run into puddles on ground & tank is wet.  Puts on & walks off away from house.


X221616     18:17:44 - 18:25:46     1989     SD     COL     Chile    
[Chile, 02Novt89]
Man in front of house straightening up vine.
18:18:37  View up dirt road, pan to house.  View of mountains behind orchards & farm fields.  Zoom in on trees or vines.
18:20:59  LS of women working in vineyard trimming vines.  Pan over vineyard from roadside.  Scenics of farming.
18:23:01  Tractor pulling trailer tank & spraying wide swath of plants just coming up (weed killer?).  Helper riding on back above spray nozzles.
Insecticides; Poisons; Safety; Agricultural Dangers; Agriculture; 1980s; 1989; South America; Farming; Hazards; Pesticides;



X221616     18:33:15 - 18:53:43     1989     SD     COL     Chile    
[Chile, 30Oct89]  Pesticides - Back Pack Power Sprayer; Tractor Spraying Grapes
Man in short sleeved shirt & no breathing mask walking w/ backmounted power sprayer towards camera; away from camera.
18:35:02  Mixing new batch of chemicals; pouring water or mixture into sprayer.  Starting small engine & strapping on back, walking to field; along rows.
18:37:41  Tractor pulling sprayer w/ large tank mounted on trailer between rows of grapes,   Man driving tractor has mask but hangin from chin.  Man riding behind, moving spray arms, retightening.  Beginning spraying away from camera; helper onto back of tractor.
18:41:38  Pulling in & starting sprayer, spray drifting over helper.  Passing camera, grapes seen starting to form.  Women pruning grapes.
18:42:56  MS Helper cleaning nozzle by hand, blows into it.  Replaces. 
18:43:29  Tractor & sprayer past w/ women beyond trimming grapes.  MCU spraying, pan w/ drifting spray to women.
18:44:40  Man mixing powder into pan w/ dust blowing about, weighs & adds; pours into bucket.  Mixes & weighs another batch.  Opens box of ??  Has much dust on hands; shakes onto scale.  Pours liquid into cup & into powder, opens new bottle & adds six or seven more measures.  Has dust on hands.  Fills bucket w/ water  & pours into large tank on trailer as people watch close by.  Not very well mixed so adds more water & puts into tank.  Then they get ready to leave.
18:50:09  Man on edge of field of grapes asked questions & he talks about working.  Seems to talk from notes re ????



X221616     18:53:48 - 19:17:38     1989     SD     COL     Chile     [Chile, 30Oct89]  Pesticides - Grape Pruning; Billboards; Orchard Spraying; Citrus Spraying
18:53:48  Continued...Man on edge of field of grapes finishes talking w/ a laugh.
18:54:03  CU woman on ladder pruning, thinning grapes w/ snippers & gloves.  MS Other woman.
18:56:19  MS woman & very young boy pruning.  Other women prune.
18:58:36  Large Hoechst (chemical company) billboard about stopping insects.  Several views. 
18:59:44  Man on tractor & two men spraying young trees in orchard from large tank behind tractor.
19:04:08  Billboard:  Bayer Agroquimicos beside busy highway; traffic past.
19:04:52  Man digging large ditch across young orchard.  CU of legs w/ many sores.
19:06:33  CU man talking to camera answering questions; smoking.  Asked if it was one or many times.  He says ???   Cut off at 19:07:49.
19:08:05  Chile03  31Oct89.  Dripping faucet & small drain into field w/ grapes behind.
19:09:32  Young vineyard, pan across; views.
19:10:46  Two men in protective coveralls & mask spraying w/ pressurized hoses behind tractor in citrus orchard but much drifting of spray.  CU of leaves w/ signs of aphids or ??.  Tractor driver has no breathing mask.  Various views.  GOOD shots.
19:15:13  CU  man fitting covering over head, putting on breathing mask (but no goggles) & metal hat; heavy rubber gloves & wearing boots.  Spraying fruit trees.
19:16:28  Man interviewed, talks about being sick & benefit of farmworkers unions for safety.  Interview continues on SN 501-101.
NOTE:  Hoechst AG was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis in 1999.  Was boycotted against in mid-1990s because of pharmaceuticals.

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