Irrigation
Irrigation
Educational film about irrigation, water & farming. Originally shot on film.
Irrigation
Scenic panning LS Pacific ocean scene, shore, waves, tide. Panning LS still fresh water lake. High ang LS rain clouds over river valley. Nice LS snow falling on snow-covered hill. Panning LS icy blue glacier cliffs. Panning h/a LS scenic river valley. Panning h/a LS farming fields, sprinklers watering crops. TLS white people (commuters) walking onto dock from ferry. MS Chinese-American butcher chopping meat w/ cleaver in restaurant window in Chinatown, San Francisco, cooked whole duck carcasses hanging from hooks, pedestrians walking by in FG. Panning MS black & white families sitting on curb, waiting for parade to pass. Panning LS wheat field. Panning TLS rice paddy in strict furrow irrigation canals. TLS trailer w/ message: "No water, no farming. No farming, no food. Central Valley Family Farmers." MS raw peanuts on vine being held. CU bunch of purple grapes on vine. LS man-made dam. Opening titles & sequence depicting methods of farming irrigation & water delivery.
Irrigation
Panning TLS sprinkler watering crops, sunset/dusk. TLSs irrigation canals. MS sprinklers watering crops. High angle LS deep blue water of Lake Mead, view from cliffs. TLS wooded stream, water traveling toward cam. MS man removing cover over groundwater spring; CU spring. Panning h/a LS resevoir. Panning LS water-delivery system watering crops in farming field. Panning LS aqueduct, birds flying over. TLS Potholes Canal. LS irrigation ditch. TLS irrigation pipeline. TLS groundwater wells in farming fields. Panning LS flood irrigation, water flooding area beneath trees. Panning MSs crops growing in furrow irrigation; MS/CUs gated pipe delivery system. MS/CU white man using siphon system to water furrows. Panning LS sprinkler system watering crops. TLS/MSs sprinklers watering crops in farming fields, some systems with above-ground pipes. Panning LS laborers carrying pipes across cropfield.
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Aerials of dark green circles in cropfields, the results of center pivot sprinkler irrigation. LS/TLS/MSs center pivot irrigation. Time Lapse of center pivot sprinkler system. MS two Hispanic men prepping irrigation pipe. TLS low-lying crop in field, pan left to corn stalks. TLS/MSs center pivots w/ control boxes. TLSs corner system center pivots. Time Lapse of the latter, as well. TLSs linear system irrigation sprinklers watering crops. TLS/MSs high, medium & low level spray sprinklers. CU big gun sprinkler; TLS/MSs big gun sprinkler watering cropfield; MS large reel, hose. MSs drip irrigation system. CU hands digging through dirt to reveal below-ground drip irrigation system. Scenic LS hazy resevoir, late afternoon. TLS aqueduct, birds flying overhead. MS moving sprinkler system. CUs drip irrigation being used on small plant. Panning TLS sprinkler (in silhouette) spraying crops, sunset.
Irrigation
Archival & contemporary illustrations of ancient Egyptians, Babylonians irrigating, farming. Illustration of King Hammurabi. Illustration of the Hanging Garden of Babylon. Illustrations of ancient Chinese farming, irrigating. Illustration of ancient Greek scientist Archemedes & the Archemedian Screw. Illustration of ancient Roman city scene. MS/CUs Native American petroglyphs on stone wall. TLS bronze statues of three 19th cen Mormon leaders on pedestal. MS apples growing on tree, tilt down to TLS restored ghost town. TLS antique steam engine locomotive train traveling through countryside, dusting of snow on ground. TLS antique automobile traveling along rural road. LS workers in plant nursery. MS section of aluminum pipe in field. TLS/MSs sprinkler systems irrigating cropfields. MS/CUs white man opening, operating central pivot irrigation control box. TLS/MSs chemigation (chemi-gation) irrigation system mixing chemicals & water.
Irrigation
Panning LS storm clouds over wheat field. Great panning LS snow falling on snow-covered field, trees in BG (snowstorm). Lswater rishing over rocks in semi-wooded area. MS gas-powered generator. MS/CUs electricity meter on telephone pole. TLS/CUs dry, rocky soil in cropfield. Infrared aerial map of different types of soil. TLS/MSs solar-powered computer boxes on irrigation systems in cropfield. TLS/MS/CUs low-lying, low-powered water nozzles spraying crops. TLS water reclamation pond. TLS fast-moving center pivot irrigation system. MSs drainage systems. TLS partially flooded cropfield.
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Nice slightly low angle TLS still, fluffy white clouds over cropfield. Panning dark clouds over mountains, semi-arid region. TLS fruitless arid & semi-arid regions, the latter of sagebrush & dry grass. TLS yellow dry grass, tilt up to lush green framing field in BG. LS/TLSs California cropfields. TLS flood irrigation. TLS/MSs farmers planting peppers using highly mechanized, modern system. Panning LS rice paddy. MSs onions, grapes, tomatoes, sugar beets growing in field. TLS sugar beets being harvested by machine. LS aqueduct. High angle LS industrial water pumping stations, resevoirs.
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Panning & tilting high angle LS Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam). LS Hoover Dam, Colorado River. Panning h/a LS Lake Mead reservoir. H/a LS powerboat towing waterskiier on Lake Mead. Low angle TLS electric generator. TLS water roiling in irrigation ditches. TLS safflower field. TLS/MSs date trees (plants) in grove. High angle LS water at Hoover Dam. TLSs diversion dams. LSs canals. Panning h/a LS crop field. MS crops being watered. Panning LS flood irrigation. Panning TLS Yuma de-salting plant near the Mexican border; panning MS monitoring room, worker sitting at desk w/ three computers; panning TLS vast room of pipes at plant. LS/TLSs Grand Coulee Dam & power plant. TLS carrots in cropfield, zoom in to CU carrot. CU potato on ground. Panning TLS carrots in field, sprinkler. TLS buckwheat field. TLS asparagus crop. MS apples on tree, sprinkler in FG. MCU grapes on vine. MS alfalfa crop.
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Archival footage of infamous Dust Bowl, High Plains, United States, 1930s: var shots barren dust-choked farm land, dead crops, farmers tilling dust & silt; MS man walking through dust, kicking up clouds; TLSs farming families shoveling, sweeping dust from front stoops; panning LS two kids running across street, seeking shelter from dust storm sweeping across street; nice LS dust clouds traveling across plain, barbed wire fence in FG; TLSs Okies packing up belongings onto flimsy jalopies, leaving Dust Bowl, traveling West-- the Ghost of Tom Joad; sideview MS farmer tipping hat, watching Okies migrate.
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Graphic map of Ogalala Aquifer. TLS dry grass, pan right to abundant cornfield. Panning MS yellow flowers wavering in wind. MS sprinkler. LSs irrigation systems watering cropfields. TLS Courtland Canal. LSs dams, diversion dams, reservoirs, canals in Nebraska. TLSs men measuring water level in irrigation canal. TLS/MSs man turning wheel atop irrigation canal. CU flowmeter cap being popped open, revealing gallons per minute meter.
Irrigation
MSs muddy water flowing. Aerials flooded river valley. MSs crops ruined by drought. LS flooded cropfield, sprinkler system. CU green oranges on vine. Traveling shot through cornfield, followed by traveling shot through cornfield withered by drought. Panning TLS sugar cane field. Panning TLSs plants inside nursery greenhouse. CU blooming red flower. TLSs cropfields. Panning LSs dry barren semi-arid landscapes. Panning LS drygrass, stop at lush cropfield. MS nozzles watering crops. TLS several palm trees. CU sunflower. Aerials of lush green circular central pivot irrigation fields.