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News In A Flash: Eisenhower Visits Dust Bowl

Date released

21 Jan 1957

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2767

NoS ID

157011

Story no

2 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Dust Bowl, The (1960 Film)

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Contrasts past and present conditions of the Dust Bowl area of the southern Great Plains. Shows newsreel footage of the area during the dust storms of the early 1930s. Interviews residents in Dalhart, Texas,...

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USA: Dust Bowl

Date released

1937

Series name

The March of Time 3rd Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

352169

Story no

3 / 3

Monthly Film Bulletin synopsis: During this year alone, 10,000 American grain farmers in the ten states have been forced to abandon their lands by a contagious and deadly natural blight erosion of the soil...

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News in a Flash

Date released

11 Mar 1954

Series name

Universal Irish News

Issue no

222

NoS ID

135136

Story no

6 / 12

America’s dust bowl.

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News in a Flash

Date released

11 Mar 1954

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2468

NoS ID

153835

Story no

6 / 11

Extras

1 commentary sheet

America’s dust bowl.

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Drought

Date released

21 Jan 1968

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

68/7

NoS ID

112918

Story no

2 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

The troubled Nation has encountered yet another major problem - drought. Stunted crops - tobacco is hard hit - and lack of grazing for cattle is proving almost a disaster as the land turns into a dust bowl.

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Where the Buffalo Roam (1993 Video)

Director

Brian Leith

Producer

Amanda Aneunissen; Brian Leith

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Follows the fortunes of the farming communities in the Midwest of the United States, where they have been devastated by over-exploitation of the land. Profits have plummeted, costs soared, as the wells - dug...

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Plow That Broke the Plains, The (1936 Video)

Director

Pare Lorentz

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The first US Federal Government documentary intended to be shown publicly. This is a graphic description of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Indicates steps already taken by the New Deal agencies to tackle...

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Seven Year Drought

Date released

21 Jan 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1442

NoS ID

021445

Story no

5 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ike Visits Drought Areas. DESCRIPTION: President Eisenhower has been touring the stricken areas of America’s new dust-bowl. He went to Texas but, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas...

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The Queen Sees the Snowy (Colour)

Date released

18 Mar 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1763

NoS ID

025026

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Queen Sees the Snowy (Colour). DESCRIPTION: The Snowy Mountains in New South Wales and Victoria are the highest land-mass on the Australian Continent. And the highest town in...

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