Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Blackface!" These buoyant cards show a little white Italian boy in Fascist uniform kissing and being kissed by an Ethiopian pickaninny. The empire-building Italian moppet then merrily delouses his Ethiopian charge with a hose, instructs him, inculcates Fascist discipline, helps him get started with an Italian plow and finally starts the "fun-after-work" called by Fascists Dopolavoro...
Some worn old tool of my own, Will be turned up by the plow, The wood of it changed to stone, But as ready to wield...
Containing no dialog, with only 700 words of exposition by an unseen commentator, The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with lush, billowy grass, ends with the hulk of a dead tree surrounded by sun-baked desert. What happens between is shown in the arrival of the cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes...
...Documentary Films" are what the modern cinema calls non-fiction pictures, exclusive of newsreels, travelogs and similar shorts. When made by governments, as most documentary films are, they are usually interlarded with propaganda. Typical were the pictures shown along with The Plow That Broke the Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain...
What made The Plow That Broke the Plains news last week, a year after it was begun and weeks after it was completed, was that the Federal Government could find no satisfactory way to distribute it to the country. According to Director Lorentz, Hollywood had been suspiciously noncooperative from the start. Most cinema producers frankly hate the New Deal and are therefore in no mood to handle the distribution of a New Deal film at any price, even if it is as effective and exciting as The Plow That Broke the Plains. Their ostensible reason for keeping this "propaganda" film...