POWER AND THE LAND (Joris Ivens, 1. The following is one of the entries from my 1. Greatest English- Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. Department of Agriculture, Power and the Land opens with a long shot of rural America: a great expanse of sky beneath which trees and a house appear tiny. Brilliant Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens holds the shot long enough so we take in the pertinent fact: No power lines interrupt this vast, open space. An Ohioan family whom the film chronicles, the Parkinsons, become members of the Belmont Electric Cooperative. First, the film shows the daily hardships that the want of electricity imposes. A passage shows farmers in the area harvesting corn together; this spirit of cooperation at work leads to the formation of their electric cooperative, to make work easier. The film then catalogs numerous ways in which electricity makes life easier for Bill and Hazel Parkinson and their children. Hearteningly, Power and the Land thus finds a space in American life (already inhabited by the U. S. USING EITHER OF THE LINKS BELOW, ACCESS THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THIS BOOK, FROM WHICH YOU CAN ORDER ONE OR MORE COPIES OF IT. THANKS. http: //www. Power and the Land - FDR Presidential Library 1940 - Video 352 - A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States. Power and the Land was persuasive propaganda on behalf of the government's Rural Electrification Administration. The film concentrates on a Ohio farming family, the. Power And The Land - Supplying Energy To Rural America. Portrays a farm family from St. Clairsville, Ohio who are members of an REA co-operative, and contrasts their. Title: Power and the Land (1940) 6.8 /10. Want to share IMDb's. Search 464,251 land listings, farms, ranches and more on LandsOfAmerica. View photos and details, save properties, and contact sellers. Get this from a library! Power and the land : motion picture script, 1940. The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) commissioned 'Power and the Land' in 1940 to show farmers how electricity could improve their lives. The 1940s (pronounced 'nineteen-forties' and commonly abbreviated as the 'Forties') was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1940 and ended on. Germany broke the spell of the 'phony war' on 9 April 1940 by invading Denmark and Norway. The United States by then had only.
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