1950s FARMING & AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH "CHANGING COTTON LAND" 53974

[@trackhoe23]

One thing I enjoy about these old films is often the voices are familiar if you watch old TV shows or listen to old radio shows. Pretty sure that's Barney Phillips narrating, who was active in both mediums.

[@relathan1]

I would guess this is late 40s, at the VERY latest. Sharecropping started to be untenable in the 50s with the advent of mechanization. As someone who's lived in the Carolinas his whole life, this is a fascinating, but bitter reminder of what life here was like not too long ago.

[@anman424]

This still could be the 50's or 60's even. Many backwater places are well behind the times. Heck, my neighbors have a working lane #1 sawmill.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Definitely post 1950. The cotton pickers at the end were not made before 1950.

[@vtecpreludevtec]

Hard work.

[@dreisternehof]

"Gone with the Wind!" Self fulfilling Prophecy...

[@codenflowin1094]

1 to 70 damn

[@granger444]

nice plantations grew out of slavery , nice to see the rest of the film is nothing but white folks , but included white sharecroppers , but no black farmers or workers I get the time this was made that this was pretty usual . just find it weird