Wheat Cycle

Series: Faces of Change Series

Duration: 17

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1974

Creator: American University Field Staff

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 15Nov74 · MP26471 (Jan-Jun 1975) Copyright holder: American Universities Field Staff, Inc

Description: Visualizes without narration the rhythm of life in northern Afghanistan which revolves around the annual wheat cycle and shows the people reaping, threshing, winnowing, and milling the wheat. Depicts an important part of the cycle as being when the landowner shares the grain with the tenant farmers. Records the farmers grinding their share of the wheat into flour and observes the steps which need to be taken to channel the water that runs the gristmill., Examines farming in Afghanistan, showing the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of the wheat., Examines farming in Afghanistan, showing the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of the wheat.

Complete Record: Visualizes without narration the rhythm of life in northern Afghanistan which revolves around the annual wheat cycle and shows the people reaping, threshing, winnowing, and milling the wheat. Depicts an important part of the cycle as being when the landowner shares the grain with the tenant farmers. Records the farmers grinding their share of the wheat into flour and observes the steps which need to be taken to channel the water that runs the gristmill., Examines farming in Afghanistan, showing the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of the wheat., Examines farming in Afghanistan, showing the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of the wheat.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.