The Dairy Farm

Duration: 0:14:00

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Raw footage from the Coronet film, Dairy Farm . We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project. This 1960s film is a warm, wholesome portrait of American farm life, likely an educational piece celebrating dairy and mixed agriculture. The film follows a farming family — a father, mother, and young children — through the full rhythms of their working day across fields, barns, a dairy, and a garden. The father operates tractors for plowing, mowing, and hay baling, while also managing the dairy operation — attaching milking machines, pouring milk into tanks, and tapping gauges. The children are active participants rather than mere observers: feeding chickens, collecting eggs, herding cows through pastures, brushing and riding horses, fishing in the pond, picking vegetables, and climbing cornfield fences. The mother tends the garden, harvesting carrots and other vegetables, and the family gathers at a picnic table where she serves milk and cake. Animal life is richly depicted — dairy cows, calves nursing, horses with foals, barn cats and kittens playing in hay, and a dog following the tractor. The film closes with evening barn routines of feeding and milking, completing a full cycle of farm life. **Keywords:** 1960s, farm life, dairy farming, rural America, children, family, tractor, hay baling, milking, cows, horses, chickens, barn, garden, harvest, educational film, wholesome, agriculture, pastoral, American heartland

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