Movie
Power and the Land
Ephemera
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1940
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America
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0h 38m
Summary
This historically important documentary, narrated by Walter Cronkite, tells the story of the Parkinson family, farmers in rural Ohio who electrified their farm with the help of a Rural Electrification Administration loan. Before the electrification of their farm, work was done in old-fashioned, manual-labor intensive ways. Water was carried by hand from the outdoor pump, while carts and plows were driven by horses.