The REA Story, 1960

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:27:00 Here is a warm, human account of how electric power has transformed life in farm communities throughout America, In a series of visits to rural communities, viewers meet a co-op consumer in the South who recalls those days of drudgery before electricity, a mid-Westerner who operates an electrified milk production factory, and a Western co-op manager who serves a territory so vast he must fly a plan to call on consumers. In this film, agriculture's new era of automation take on vitality and warmth in the lives of people who put electricity to work in daily farm operations.