Classic Farming Film Collection

This collection contains 8 movies and is Over 2 hours of video.

Title Description
Duration
Behind the Cup: The Story of Hills Bros. Coffee 1930

Story of coffee as it is grown, transported, roasted, and marketed for Hills Bros. Coffee. Join an early tour of it's San Francisco, CA. roasting and packing plant.

16:22
Farmer Miller Goes Into High Gear (Part I) ca. 1920s

This Goodyear film convinces a farmer that he and his tractor can be "better and faster", while rolling on Goodyear's vs. those steel wheels he has now. Early scenes of manufacturing tires are included.

26:51
Fundo in Chile 1949

Large Chilean ranches are the site for this film that compares and contrasts the old and new farming techniques. Also shows the daily lives of workers and their families.

20:07
Seed for Tomorrow 1947

This is a promotional film for the Farmers and Agricultural workers Union.

20:02

Amateur film: Texas Farm Family] ca. 1952

Family life on a Texas farm is the subject of this amateur home movie.

10:55
Big Delivery Wagon, The 1951

Heinz sponsored film demonstrating the complex transportation system needed to move crops. Specifically from the farm to the factory where they are turned into ketchup, and other Heinz products.

11:45
Miracles From Agriculture 1960

This film while discussing methods of improving the growth, processing, handling, and shipment of food, also shows the supermarket as the showplace of agricultural produce.

12:49
Agricultural Aviation 1955

This film discusses the benefits of aviation to the farmer. With Kodachrome footage of crop dusting, insecticides, and pests in action. Airplanes and helicopters are featured in the roles of dusters or sprayers.


13:30