"We Plow the Fields and Scatter"

Film clips from an 8 mm. movie camera. Most shots are from the 1930's and 1940's and feature rural and farm life.

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• farm
• rural
• planting
• cultivating
• corn
• tractors
• horses

[seancarm]

I lived in cottonwood County (springfield township) as a boy. I really like the color. We always think of the 30's and 40's as such dull times because everything else in black and white. The color adds so much. Your father must of have been quite the farmer judging from the buildings and have a movie camera at that time.

[Slim5819]

@seancarm Thanks for your note. My Dad's farm was in Carson township and most of the farmers I knew were from eastern Cottonwood County as I went to Carson and Mt. Lake schools. My Dad didn't splurge much and worked hard, but every now and then he bought something like a movie camera and we in the later generations really appreciate that he did that. I've gotten responses from around the country and world for that matter.

[JonathanBowker]

Great video thank you. Please can you send me details of the choir, it was a very nice arrangement.

All the best,

Jonathan Bowker

[Slim5819]

I purchased the music (probably from Amazon as I remember). It is an individual hymn from an album entitled "Hymns Triumphant, Vols I and II. Its sung by the London Philharmonic Choir and accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Those are all the details which I have. I'm happy you appreciated the music and the video.

[userunavailable3095]

Where did you farm?

[Slim5819]

Thanks for your note. Southwestern Minnesota, Cottonwood County.

[TheMoses234]

I want to thank-you, God Bless

[hereinweymouth]

I like your tempo

[seancarm]

I figured you had to be from the Delft area, Bingham lake High school and pastor wiebe, kind of put you over in that area, thanks for posting the movies, really enjoyed them

[LoveMattersMost]

I want to thank-you for this wonderful uplifting Video!

So simple. It shows our lives as they should be. Reaping the rewards of simple, honest toil. The music is so extraordinary and uplifting. I've watched it over again several times now. Thank-You! Brian : )

[userunavailable3095]

So you were really close to Walnut Grove, then? I love your videos. I stumbled across them yesterday, looking for something for my daughter. She has one of those old Marx tin toy farms, which looks very like your real barn. We've been watching these videos over and over. They are beautiful, and they make me cry. I've been trying to explain to her how all of the men of our family in this generation, save one who was 4F, fought in the war. It makes me cry to think of them leaving like this.