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PRAIRIE WINTER

  • FILM R-4002
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  • 1999 or before

Documentary: Follows the activities of a farm family through one of their days. The children collect a day's worth of wood for the house, from the wood pile. The cattle are fed and the farmer loads the horse drawn grain cart with 2 tons of wheat and takes it to the local grain elevator. The children are shown playing outside at the local one room school house. The farmer goes to the local town and stops to pick up mail from the post office located in the store. The chidren are let out of school at the end of the day. After delivering the grain to the elevator the farmer starts for home and encounters a snow storm but makes it home safely. Includes good shots of a snow storm, the interior of a grain elevator, children at a one room school house, a man walking with snowshoes, and a propeller driven snowplane. Cue cards are used through out the film to describe various scenes. CAUTION: THIS FILM IS BADLY SHRUNKEN - DO NOT PROJECT !!!!

EVELYN SPICE (CHERRY)