ETHYL CORPORATION 1940s FARM MACHINERY & INDUSTRIAL FARMING FILM "PATTERN FOR PROGRESS" 49604

[@BR-bj3ot]

A breath of fresh air. There are only some forms of “ progress” that are safe. Our nation has taken “ progress “ to a dangerous new level! Especially socially! God help us!

[@markstengel7680]

I remember in NJ dairy farms in Sussex County Agway. The cylindrical fuel tanks painted white most had hand crank pumps. Thank's for providing this 1940s gasoline/power farming presentation. Very Enjoyable 🚜🇺🇸

[@kennethjohnson6319]

A very educational episode of actual footage of life on the farm the land the equipment they use on the farm and the people who ran it also the animals on the farm the best part is the gas they uesd Ethel by esso in 1940s

[@zamankadeem]

Flash from the past.Keep the good job.

[@1978garfield]

The generation in that film was probably the last generation of family farms to do better than their father's sadly.

[@Sennmut]

Today, they'd probably have to file an environmental impact statement on the effect of plowing, or milking a cow.

[@donaldmack7213]

Fantastic video! Please post more!

[@jodybesick2175]

It would be interesting to see what the farm looks like today

[@0neIntangible]

I remember my Grampa's farm had a couple of large metal tanks buried ground for fuel, one for gasoline and the other diesel...I don't know how many gallons they held in them, but to me as a little kid ib the late '50's early '60's, they were HUGE! Probably I'm guessing around 1,000 gallons or so. I remember seeing them in the ground when they were being replaced for leaking, and I was warned not to play around them. Just wondering, how many other buried tanks like these were or are still in service and possibly leaking as well.

[@wdmm94]

This is probably from the later part of the 40's based on some of the model tractors in it.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in 1947.

[@agtpony]

God's videos are so good where on Earth for these things been hiding

[@rayjames6096]

He should have bought a combine, he could have got a lot of work done then with the power.

[@ArmpitStudios]

After my grandparents died, we found a box of diaries she kept. They’re amazing. Sure, most days she only wrote what the temperature was at whatever early hour she awoke that day, but many were full of treasures, like the day I and my girlfriend at the time brought her a new frying pan, or the progress of their garden, from being tilled to canning the things they planted, or some her her funny writings, like “Whoopy!” when all the snow was finally gone after a long Winter. These days people might read someone’s Facebook feed after they’re gone, but it’s not nearly the same.

[@kc4cvh]

12:05 Power made it possible to eliminate most of the farmers and consolidate their many properties into immense corporate plantations, cultivated by "farmers" in an executive suite a thousand miles away.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Pff, riiight. Tell that to the hundreds of farmers I know still working their own land.

[@chasf4371]

Wish you would emove your counter!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue:Tens of thousands of films like this one were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.

Hey Charlie!! Deal with it, they're doing something that we get for nothing. So shut your yap!!

[@thenmymindsplitopen]

Great channel of a wealth of historical films. It's sad people would exploit it. Thanks Periscope and keep up the great job👍

[@thomasbeard838]

PeriscopeFilm long live periscope!

[@BeryJensen]

So probably the entire diary thing was fake.