Your friend the soil : keep it or lose it

Duration: 0:06:55

Genre: Children's | Educational

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses animation and live photography to show several of the benefits of good soil and some of the undesirable consequences of poor soil. Pictures a small girl in a super market buying bread, milk and beans. She discovers that good soil is essential for the production of these products. Later she earns that poor farming practices may result in soil that is incapable of producing the various things we eat.,

An animated cartoon story dramatizes the relationship between soil and food resources.

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, Uses animation and live photography to show several of the benefits of good soil and some of the undesirable consequences of poor soil. Pictures a small girl in a super market buying bread, milk and beans. She discovers that good soil is essential for the production of these products. Later she earns that poor farming practices may result in soil that is incapable of producing the various things we eat.

Complete Record: , An animated cartoon story dramatizes the relationship between soil and food resources. To help with the A/V Geeks mission to share (more…), An animated cartoon story dramatizes the relationship between soil and food resources. To help with the A/V Geeks mission to share (more…), Uses animation and live photography to show several of the benefits of good soil and some of the undesirable consequences of poor soil. Pictures a small girl in a super market buying bread, milk and beans. She discovers that good soil is essential for the production of these products. Later she earns that poor farming practices may result in soil that is incapable of producing the various things we eat.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

Transcription

for [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] want to see where those things came from meet my sisters lots of nice grass for [Music] them lots of nice milk for you good farmer keeps plenty of trees on his farm he knows how to plow those FS will hold rain water sinks in nice and slow and the Earth holds it rain makes things grow look at that bean more than beans grow in good soil wheat too that's where your bread comes from just look look at that grain suppers on the [Music] table the farm of milk milk on the beans milk mil I'm not going to be in this picture and she's going to find out why [Music] uh-uh uh some cow [Music] some Farm that's no way to plow uphill this farmer is in for trouble those farrows won't hold any water rain can't sink in runs off and takes the soil with it look at that gets worse all the time no place for [Music] me no supper for [Music] her