Filming the Agriculture Experience
March 22, 2013
To finish out Agricultural Awareness Week, we want to highlight a particular subset of items included in the our agricultural digitization project. Among the materials digitized and made accessible for the Cultivating a Revolution project are 150 films dating from the 1950s-1980s. The films cover a spectrum of topics related to agriculture; from interviews at the state fair, to demonstations of machinery being tested, to interviews to politicians such as Jesse Helms and Jim Hunt about North Carolina and agriculture policy. Farming programs such as "Aspect," which was a regular half hour program featuring Hal Reynolds and various guests that included many members of the College of Agriculture and Life Science faculty, and segments from WRAL-TV's "Farm News" are also included in the films digitized.
The films are all from the University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 024) and the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (UA100-014). To browse the films available and watch them online, visit those collections' collection guides: UA024 and UA100-014 .