1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1927)

15 AGRICULTURE "1000 and One" AGRICULTURE GROUP 1 CROPS Cotton The Story of Cotton (1) Self-explanatory. (5 9) The Story of Cotton (2) Its growth and manufacture. (XXX) ***The Land of Cotton (2) A complete story of cotton with emphasis given to milling and weaving of cloth. Well done for instructional purposes. (X) Cotton — Dixie's Greatest Crop (1) Soil preparation, planting, cultivating, picking, delivery to gin. Boll weevil and other problems of modern production. (144) Cotton Handling (1) In the largest cotton warehouse in the world. (63) Co-operative Marketing — Cotton (2) Activities of the co-operative cotton marketing associations of the South, showing progress of grower's bale from gin to mill, or to seaboard for export shipment. (144) (See also Groups 12, 45, 76) CROUP 2 Sugar Cane Sugar (1) Depicting the cultivation of cane and the extracting of sugar from the plant. (151) Sugar Cane (1) Complete descriptive study of the manufacture of sugar from planting of cane to finished product.' For sale only. (58) Sugar Cane and Cane Sugar (1) Culture and harvesting of sugar cane in South; hauling cane to factory; various stages in manufacture and refinement of cane sugar from crushing of cane to finished product. (144) Raw Sugar Production in Cuba (1) Cultivation of cane and fine scenics of Cuba. (83) * Cuba, the Island of Sugar (2) World's largest achievement in raising, sugar cane — forest transformed into modern plantation, largest sugar mill in world built and put into operation. (X) ***Cane Sugar Refining (1) Sugar from planting in Cuba to preparation for market. Special emphasis upon refining processes. Splendidly adapted for classroom use. (9, 83) Sunny South (1) Scenes in the South. Emphasis on manufacture of sugar. (18) Maple Sugar (1) Lure of the maple grove in spring. (49) Harvest of the Sugar Maple (1) Life in the sugar bush, showing old and new methods of tapping maple trees, of gathering and boiling sap. (XXX) Making Maple Sugar (1) From tapping the trees to the marketing — oldfashioned and modern methods. For sale only. (58) Beets from Seed to Sugar Bowl (1) Self-explanatory. (144) ***The Sugar Trail (1) Beet sugar industry as developed from the wild beet. (X) (See also Groups 55-6, 77, 101) CROUF 3 Wheat ***Our Daily Bread (1) Development of methods for harvesting, milling, and baldng -from primitive to modern times. (X) ***The Staff of Life (1) The growing of wheat, harvesting, threshing and milling, told logically and interestingly. (37, 42, 49, 151, 155) The Wheat Industry (%) Production of wheat in the Red River Valley — ploughing, drilling, harvesting, threshing, etc. (XII) The Romance of a Grain of Wheat (1) Animation and photography showing wheat production. (XXX, 64) *** Wheat and Flour (1) Study of wheat raising from the time it is planted until the flour is ready for mixing. For sale only. (58) Wheat or Weeds? (1) Story of wheat cleaning and the operation of wheat cleaning machines at the thresher; what clean wheat means to the farmer. (144) (See also Groups 12, 77, 101, 130) GROUP 4 Fruits and Nuts ***The Kindly Fruits of the Earth (1) Survey of cultivation, picking, packing and shipment of some of the most important fruits. (XV) ** The Apple of New England (1) Cutting and grafting wild apple to produce present fine varieties; picking and packing; making apple pies in Waldorf restaurants. (102) ***The Land of Cherries (1) The largest cherry orchard in the world. Scenes show cultivation of the soil, picking the cherries and process of canning. (XXX, 72)