Video showing farm family in 1942. Instead of from farm to table, this is from farm to war effort. http://rememberthefarm.com.
The Archive description states:
"A simple and moving story of Henry Browne, a black farmer, and his family -- what they are doing individually and collectively to win the war. Farmer Browne, rooted in the soil, goes about the daily tasks of farming so important in wartime. He plants fifteen acres of peanuts so that we will have more vegetable oils, needed so urgently today. He conserves his land and takes care of his equipment. He greases his farm tools to prevent rust, saves his burlap bags. "Henry Browne's family, too, do their jobs. Mrs. Browne has a Victory garden, Young Henry milks the cow, sister has a flock of chickens, and the eldest son is serving with the 99th Pursuit Squadron of the Army Air Forces. The film ends with the family's visiting the Tuskegee air field." Indiana
2:07:77- 2:24:82 A little boy in overalls milks a cow in a pen. A calf walks over and begins nursing the cow. The boy gets up and walks out of the frame.
3:02:53- 3:24:57 Henry Browne saddles his mules and begins walking by his peanut field with the two mules.
4:29:31- 4:51:80 The little girl tends to the chickens. We view the nice chicken pen there are many chickens wandering about and others in a large, wooden cage. She feeds the ones walking freely and then those in the cage. Cut to image of her mother walking out to the fields with a hoe. The girl runs after her holding her own hoe.
4:52:65- 5:19:97 Nice view of the field with Henry Browne and his mules plowing in the distance. The mother and daughter come into the frame. Cut to a closer shot of the boy working the fields. The girl and her mother come into the foreground of the frame.
5:59:26- 6:18:63 Nice pan of the intricate rows of a peanut field.
7:30:80- 7:48:70 Series of shots of the Browne family going t0 town in a horse drawn carriage. First image shows them coming onto Main Street where there are stores, cars, and several people standing on one side of the street. As they round a corner we see a group of African-American men sitting on the curb. Cut to a view of the Brownes coming towards the camera on a different part of Main Street. We see the "Macon" movie theater. Cut to them on a different road in town. They pass a church and several parked cars.
8:38:94- 8:48:55 Nice image of the Browne Family walking with an African-American air force pilot. They walk along an air force base. An army vehicle passes them as they walk towards the plane yard.
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This was especially poignant at the "grease the tools" statement since that is exactly how my Grandfather taught me. He kept all motor oil drained from the truck, car and tractor. Any tool, including big ones like the disc had to be scrubbed with an iron brush at the end of the day and painted with motor oil. Nothing ever rusted.
