"It Takes Everybody to Build this Land"

Duration: 22

Genre: Children's | Educational | Musical

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Ritter-Young-Lerner Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Shows that the early pioneers had to make their own tools and clothes, build their own houses, and raise their own food. Describes the development of specialties and the trading of one man's work for another's. As the settlements became cities, concentrations on lumbering, mining, manufacturing, and farming grew up. Accompanied by folk singer Oscar Brand, singing the title song., Traces the development and discusses the importance of specialization in American industry and agriculture, with the added attraction of a left-populist folkie score.

Complete Record: Shows that the early pioneers had to make their own tools and clothes, build their own houses, and raise their own food. Describes the development of specialties and the trading of one man's work for another's. As the settlements became cities, concentrations on lumbering, mining, manufacturing, and farming grew up. Accompanied by folk singer Oscar Brand, singing the title song., , Traces the development and discusses the importance of specialization in American industry and agriculture, with the added attraction of a left-populist folkie score.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.