Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000465
Ephemeral film · 18 min
Synopsis
Historically significant footage of California agriculture and extractive industry in the 1930s. Filmed in Kern County, the reel documents agricultural workers in fruit orchards and lettuce fields and on strike, with attention to the equipment and working conditions of the era. Created by a medical researcher studying disease transmission within agricultural communities. With documentation of a wildflower superbloom, and of oil fields at work and the landscape and topography of the region.
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