Speed Graphic Film and Video | Prairie Journal: Report from Nebraska (1945) @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
These scenes were taken by an Army film crew in Nebraska in August 1945. In the archives, these are filed under the heading "Report from Nebraska."
00:19 According to the notes with the film, these scenes are of the city of North Platte.
02:22 Detasseling corn. Hot and tiring work.
03:31 Grain-fed cattle on a ranch near Hershey.
04:14 Small-town scenes. Some of these may have been filmed in Elsie.
05:49 Sales barn in North Platte.
06:01 Creamery bottling and delivery. Note the three-digit telephone number on the truck.
06:32 Mechanical corn husking.
07:10 Wheat harvesting.
09:07 Haying.
The original film is silent, so I've added music by Aaron Copland, Prairie Journal, to the soundtrack.
These scenes were taken by an Army film crew in Nebraska in August 1945. In the archives, these are filed under the heading "Report from Nebraska."
00:19 According to the notes with the film, these scenes are of the city of North Platte.
02:22 Detasseling corn. Hot and tiring work.
03:31 Grain-fed cattle on a ranch near Hershey.
04:14 Small-town scenes. Some of these may have been filmed in Elsie.
05:49 Sales barn in North Platte.
06:01 Creamery bottling and delivery. Note the three-digit telephone number on the truck.
06:32 Mechanical corn husking.
07:10 Wheat harvesting.
09:07 Haying.
The original film is silent, so I've added music by Aaron Copland, Prairie Journal, to the soundtrack.
![Old Home Movies, Vol. IV: California to Royal Gorge in the 1930s [Silent]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bbMtofB0UtY/hqdefault.jpg "Old Home Movies, Vol. IV: California to Royal Gorge in the 1930s [Silent]
These are excerpts from movies of an affluent couples rail trip to the American west some time in the 1930s. Their identities and when it was filmed are unknown.
0:00 Taken from an open observation car, presumably on the way Los Angeles
0:00 This appears to be the arrival in the Los Angeles area. The couple is met by a group of other well-dressed people.
0:31 Leaving Pasadena for San Francisco on the Southern Pacific. SP F-5 2-10-2 No. 3748 in the lead.
1:00 A few views of and from the San Francisco cable cars.
1:18 On board the Denver & Rio Grande Western, on the way up to Tennessee Pass. Since its silent film, railfans will just have to imagine the sound of a doubleheader echoing off the rock walls of the river valley.
2:16 Stop at the top of the pass.
2:33 Headed downstream now for Royal Gorge. Note the recent rockfall.
3:07 Stopping at the bottom of Royal Gorge. The then-new Royal Gorge Bridge gets a lot of the photographers attention.")
