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Historic dust bowl films. Discs 1 & 2.
LIBRA DVD 024 420 disc 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions.
- Droughts.
- History.
- Dust storms.
- Great Plains--History--20th century.
- Dust storms--Great Plains--History--20th century.
- Droughts--Great Plains--History--20th century.
- Depressions--1929--Great Plains.
- Great Plains.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Quality Information Publishers, [2006]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This is the story of how rural America used machines to achieve an unbelievable production - but at a terrible cost to land and to people through the waste of erosion and poverty---from cover.
- Notes:
- Disc 1. The plow that broke the plains (1936) / written and directed by Pare Lorentz, Resettlement Administration -- Rain for the earth / produced by the Works Progress Administration of the Federal Works Agency -- Farmers war against dust, fight to save wheat crops (Dust Bowl newsreel) -- disc 2. The land (1930s-1940s) / directed by Robert J. Flaherty.
- Copyright date on packaging is 2007; date on disc is 2006.
- OCLC:
- 818904812
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