Texas Prison System Farms (1956)

Duration: 0:15:43

Year Published: 1956

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This industrial film captures scenes of prison farms in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Harris counties in 1956, focusing primarily on the cotton, corn, sorghum, and rice crops. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects.