Acres of Plenty

Series

Series Name
Pathetone Weekly

Issue

Issue No.
549
Date Released
7 Oct 1940
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Sea Mosquitoes
  2. 2Divers Affairs
  3. 3Cinetops in Brief No 131
  4. 4Acres of Plenty

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
The Great Trek has started. Thousands of families on wheels are making a pilgrimage to what to them is the Promised Land. Their own farms are shrivelled and become derelict, and they’re heading west for the farm jobs that are all too few.
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