Synopsis
How airplanes and helicopters help farmers, in Kodachrome footage of crop dusting and crop spraying, insecticides and their application, and pests in action.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- Agricult1955
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Aviation: Agricultural
- Aviation: General
- Agriculture: Herbicides and pesticides
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Agricultural Aviation · Christine Hennig · 2003-04-06
We're talking crop-dusting, folks. Planes and more planes and helicopters, too, spraying chemicals on everything in sight. Like Crow says in the msting of The Truck Farmer, "There's nothing we can't spray!" The mst3k gang would have had a field day with this one, especially when they get to the part about tobacco farming. This is one to take to your next msting party. Just make sure there's no organic food fanatics comingit would give them a heart attack! Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ****.
★★★★ · Help - I'm choking. · DeluxeReissue · 2008-09-05
Nice visuals of crop spraying, bugs dying, small planes and helicopters. I just feel sorry for the cameraman in this - I'm assuming he died a terrible death sometime after making this as he must breath in a ridiculous amount of these killer chemicals during the filming.
★★★ · Mmmm! Chemicals! · Spuzz · 2002-12-16
This shocking 1955 film, features plane apon plane spraying gallons of dangerous chemicals such as DDT and 245tp. Nice close-ups of dying insects are shown. Not shown, side effects after exposure to humans. It's amazing to see how naive people were in 1955. In film after film, they're just whooping it up, with not a care in the world, and we have now these films to prove how grossly wrong their ideologies were.
