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1947 Life on a Japanese Farm 221095-06 | Footage Farm

2,442 views · Published 16 December 2012 · 11:50 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2012 · Film & Animation

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[Post-WWII - 1947, Occupied Japan, Life on a Japanese Farm]
Photographed by SCPDGHQFEC for Natural Resources Section.
Farmer cutting mulberry branches for his silk worms.  Silk worm racks in room of house showing worms feeding on leaves.  Cocoons separated by hand-cranked machine worked by mother and daughter.  Cocoons placed in basket.  Interior silk plant of the Katakura Company in Omiya showing girls preparing a bolt of silk thread.  CU girl holding completed bolts of silk thread bearing company name.
21:52:32  Farmers wife carrying home load of barley.  Farmer loading grain from his ox cart and receiving letters from rural postman on bicycle.  Barley on racks for drying.  Schoolhouse and pan of empty school yard - interior empty classroom.
21:54:28  Boys gathering up stray wheat after it has been cut, Foot mill used to flay grain.  Family flailing grain by hand, one woman carrying child on her back.  Girls with children on backs.  Children at play.  Sequence showing farmers using new technology i.e. charcoal gas motor for flailing and winnowing the wheat.  Children make crude mats from bits of grain.  Farmers flailing wheat with electric motor machine.
Agriculture - Japan - Post-WW2; 1940s.

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