Look Who it Was Random video

America in Transition 250074-10 | Footage Farm

611 views · Published 17 December 2012 · 7:11 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2012 · Film & Animation

Watch on YouTube

Footage Farm is a historical audio-visual library. The footage in this video constitutes an unedited historical document and has been uploaded for research purposes. Some viewers may find the archive material upsetting. Footage Farm does not condone the views expressed in this video.
For broadcast quality material of this clip or to know more about our Public Domain collection, contact us at [email protected] Footage Farm is a historical audio-visual library. The footage in this video constitutes an unedited historical document and has been uploaded for research purposes. Some viewers may find the archive material upsetting. Footage Farm does not condone the views expressed in this video.
For broadcast quality material of this reel or for more information about our Public Domain collection, contact us at [email protected]
Man out of wood frame house & thru gate; looks at newspaper w/ another man who gestures.  CU wheat; man driving caterpillar cleated tractor pulling combine harvesting w/ mountains in background; truck out of field to Montana grain elevator.  Dumping load & sampling grain.  Loading railroad freight car from elevator.
03:12:17  Potato diggers pulled by tractors, men riding harvestors & potatos & clods on belts then onto ground.  Bracero farm workers picking into gunny sacks.
03:12:29  Men sewing sacks of potatoes in sorting sheds.  Man picking oranges (?); women wrapping; other hand harvest scenes; packing crates, loading railroad cars.
03:12:58  Rancher reading newspaper on horse, cattle, sheep grazing & being driven down road, across plains, in corral, in stockyard & onto train cars.
03:13:53  Logging large old-growth forests; moving timbers onto flatcars & along train tracks.  Coal cars & freight trains passing.  Steam engines, electric trains.  large railroad yard.
03:15:03  Men in RR yard reading newspaper headline:  U.S. Rushes Korea Aid.  Narrator in first person voice talking about invason of Korea & his efforts routing freight trains.  In control tower shunting cars, MCU & CUs making up trains.  Crates & raw materials on trains.  Army equipment, army trucks, crates, engine labeled United States Army.
03:16:45  Unloading materials w/ forklift, crane.  Loading ship w/ palleted crates, drums, railroad cars, tanks, airplanes onto aircraft carrier.
03:17:39  Ships under Golden Gate Bridge & freighters passing in channel & under bridge seen from above.  The End.
Cold War Propaganda; Korean War; Homefront; Military; Civilian Effort;
NOTE:  Quick cutting but works as sequences.  Good photography.

More from this channel