Rain for the Earth (Part I) (1937)
1937 · Ephemeral film · 9 min · dir. Clair Lanning
- Documentary
Synopsis
Drought conditions in the Great Plains during the 1930s, known as the "Dust Bowl".
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Clair Lanning
- Studio
- Works Progress Administration
- Released
- 1937-11-25
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- New Deal: Conservation
Cast & crew
- Clair Lanning Director
David Ross
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · depression years in country usa · cashel · 2003-11-22
This film would serve asa valuable prelude to John steinbeck,s great novel, the grapes of wrath. It shows in excellent b.w. photography, the type of people and the country so vividly created in the novel.. A valuble historical document
★★★ · History lesson! · Nells250 · 2022-08-23
Interesting how they go on about the effects of drought but not the causes of much of the wasteland... over farming, bad farming practices, and removal of grasslands which kept down soil erosion.