Agro-Joint harvesting and combines
Creator(s)
- Betty Troper Yager
Scope and Content
MS of big tractor combine at work, quick shot of tractor pulling a large pipe at Jankoi, then well-edited footage of harvesting (which may have been acquired and cut into this film). Shots of machines and people, field of waving grain. Good shots of men marching with scythes. HA of a large number of people gathering sheaves of wheat. Rolling combine blades move towards the camera. Threshing process and machines doing work. MCU of men taking off overalls and lined up at entryway. A tractor pulls railcars into position to be loaded with grain.
Note(s)
See also Film ID 2569, Story 3468 for outtakes/similar scenes from this film. See also NCJF's holdings under the title: "Founding a New Life: A Story of Rehabilitation" on USHMM Film IDs 2291, 2309, 504, and 522. Some of the scenes Morris Troper shot on his 1936 trip were used in this film.
Subjects
- FARMERS/FARMING
- UKRAINE
- FACTORIES
- HARVESTS
- SOVIET UNION
- JEWS
- JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR)
- WORKERS
Places
- , Crimea
- Jankoi, Soviet Union
- , Ukraine
- , Soviet Union
Genre
- Film
- Documentary.