Summary: An explanation of the importance of certain primarily oil-producing crops, intended presumably as both a documentary and an encouragement for wider cultivation.
Description: Opening sequence of the cultivation, collection and transport of palm nut and other tropical vegetable oils; film makes usual points about need for (and vulnerability of) shipping space in wartime. Scenes of cultivation of oil crops in America - flax, groundnuts, cotton-seed, soya beans, and of oil pressing. Uses of these products indicated, with illustration by suitable action material - ammunition, paint, linoleum, aircraft dope, soap, cooking oil, foodstuffs (especially soya beans). "Many a farmer's son is betting his life that his father will come through with a crop for combat."
Alternative Title:
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:CUS 212
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1943
Production Country: United States of America
Production Details: US Office of War Information (Production sponsor)
United States Department of Agriculture (Production company)
Hogan, Tom (Production individual)
Hogan, Tom (Production individual)
Shilkret, Jack (Production individual)
Wall, Duncan (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: agriculture, United States - tropical (object name)
industry, United States - food: vegetable oil (object name)
society, United States - precautionary (object name)
society, United States - sustenance (object name)
United States of America (geography)
propaganda (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 9 mins
