United States. Department of Agriculture

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:16:45 A training film for firefighters and initial attack foremen. By means of animation and table-top photography interspersed with actual fire scenes, it show the basic fundamentals for combustion and the influences of fuel, weather, and topography on fire behavior. Emphasizes the many factors that make a fire burn the way it does and demonstrates how strategy can be planned from knowledge of the behavior.

B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:02:45 Shows the different variations of the peanut developed by exposure to atomic radiation.

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:04:45 Introduces "side carving," showing step-by-step this new and easy way of carving a roast turkey; the bird is turned on its side, the wing and leg removed, and the meat sliced and arranged on a serving dish. (Produced in cooperation with the Poultry and Egg National Board.) AWARDS: Selected for Brussels World's Fair, 1958

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:14:00 A look at farmer cooperatives through which farmers apply sound business methods to marketing and purchasing—and which benefit home communities with new jobs, increased services, and better business, and consumers with quality products produced at lower costs. A cooperative film of USDA's Farmer Cooperative Service and the Farm Credit Administration and its banks for cooperatives.

B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:15:00 Features the QUIZ KIDS, of the radio, in a typical quiz session, entirely unrehearsed. There performance is worked into a film telling the story of the community school lunch program sponsored by the local communities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to utilize foods that are abundant or in surplus supply, and at the same time promote better nutrition among America's school children.

Color - Sound - 16 mm

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:00 PSA on how to obtain "How to Buy Poultry" information from USDA P-9498

B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:04:00 By visiting an egg-grading plant where eggs are candled and cartoned, and a market where the eggs sold are Government grade labeled, the consumer is shown that she can know the eggs she buys by the Government grade label. In the kitchen, the relation between the grades of eggs and the use for which the eggs are intended is illustrated. (released 1949, revised 1954)

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:02:00 Shows the work of the U. S. Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho in adapting the Komondor breed of dog to work in guarding sheep.

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:00 Documents the deterioration of national forest lands and efforts at reclamation. National Forest inception, Shawnee National Forest, Importance to local communities and economies