Home Movie: 010207 (silent)

Description: Content warning: This film contains footage of the decapitation of chickens on a farm [00:01:32-00:01:55].

Scenes of rural life in Missouri circa 1941, including images of farm labor; an auction in Middletown, Missouri; rural town street scenes; horse ranches; and steam trains.

Notes from can:
"Home Movies: Roll 3: Dad Sawing Wood, Laklonia, Everette No use 1945 / #3 Parkers Dad etc."

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1940s, Agriculture, Labor, Rural life

Tags: American Midwest; house with long porch; farm scenes; man sharpening scythe; rural auctions; small towns; man cutting grass with scythe; man sawing thick log; little girl playing with dead? hens; girl carrying orange cat; cats; woman breaking chicken's necks off by twirling them in air; decapitating chickens; horses galloping in field; brown grasses; hiding from camera; "Lester J. Parker The Honey Man Parma, MO Farmer Apiarist" sign on truck; shaking hands; work trucks; "Ellis Rentfro Middletown, MO" sign on truck; farmers gather; selling produce; small rural towns; railroad crossings; Wabash train; steam trains; steam train waiting at crossing; horsedrawn cart driving by camera and over railroad track; gathering; smoking in front of "Positively No Smoking" sign; Cardiff Hill sign, Hannibal, Missouri; "This Is The Foot Of Cardiff Hill Made Famous In Mark Twain's Books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" sign; stairs up a cliff; boyhood home of Mark Twain plaque; man plowing field with horse plow; windy; man leading donkey; men roofing; foals; horse and foal running around field; horseback riding; covert filming from parked car; man posing next to truck; walking out of house; waving at camera; woman pumping water from well; film deterioration; 1941 Missouri license plate

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1941

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Geographical Location: USA; Missouri; Middletown, Missouri; Parma, Missouri; Hannibal, Missouri

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, original

Color: b&w, color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle triangle, triangle square

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 261