Film Record: Follow the Plow

Image from Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 596.

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

T. W. Willard

Languages:

English

Length:

600 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1938 - Special Class

Description:

"Well known for its attainments in the commercial film field, the T. W. Willard Motion Picture Company sets a new high in its publicity productions with Follow the Plow. To technical excellence they have added sound sequencing; into a record of vocational education, they have instilled beauty and human interest. The subject matter concerns the training given to selected city boys in the fundamentals of farming at the Bowdoin Farm, operated by the Children's Aid Society of New York City. Tracing the course of these boys from the sidewalks and streets to the fields, at New Hamburg, N. Y., the location of the farm, the film expands with the glorious color of the autumn country and becomes a living essay of the pleasures of farm life. Constantly changing angles and intelligent titling lend pace to the production. Despite the limited interest in the specific subject of plows and cows, the appeal is made universal through magnificent color scenes and competent treatment." Movie Makers, Dec. 1938, 618.

Resources:

Discussed in "Practical Films" (Movie Makers, June 1938, 296).

Made by the T. W. Willard Motion Picture Company.

Locations:

• New Hamburg, New York (Subject)

Subjects:

• Agriculture
• Animals
• Persons
•      Young men
• Work
• North America
•      United States
•           New York (State)

Genre:

• Documentary
• Sponsored

Form:

• Short

Screenings:

• Screened at the 1939 World's Fair in the "Education and Child Welfare Films" section: New York City, N.Y.

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