Vintage Farm Movies of Iowa from 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2019
- These video are family movies that were converted from 8mm film. The oldest go back to 1951 and the last few short clips are from 1976. The farm is still owned by my grandfather and great-uncle today, and I enjoy helping any chance I can get.
These movies are silent. - Věda a technologie
Born and bred midwesterner, these are just the best, thank you for posting them, make me feel so great to see these. Wishing I was back there
1962 Iowan born and raised! From a small farm town in northern Iowa. It seems like yesterday! All of this is so familiar, it's hard to believe things have changed so much. Not totally, but a lot! My father was an International Harvester/Farmall dealer and we spent a lot of time on the farms and in the shop. Teenagers walked beans, tasseled corn and made hay. It was good money, too! New machinery was a wonder and everyone would come out to see it if you were lucky enough to have it. We sang to the cows ( a GREAT attentive audience, btw ) and rode hogs for fun. We played hide and seek in the tall corn and sometimes got lost. lol We performed plays on wagons and made a play house out of a very old chicken coop we called, "The Little Red House"...and cried when it was torn down and burned to make way for a new farm house because the old one was falling apart at the seams. We drank well water and did chores. We played barefoot and were well versed in birth and death. We prayed for rain and good weather, grew our own vegetables and fixed everything ourselves. We survived tornadoes - one of them being an EF5 that flattened our little farm town and killed 6 of our citizens, but we didn't give up. No sir! We rebuilt and kept on going. This way of life taught me more life lessons in my youth than any school ever did. The people I knew and loved were people like this. And they taught me everything I needed to know to survive and thrive in a harsh world.
God bless them and those like them! Thank you so much for uploading this precious piece of our history.
This movie/video must be a family treasure.
those boys must have felt so proud and so grown up to be out there helping the men work...to have the _privilege_ of working. We used to do things that way. It was a great system.
This is great. Back when everyone in the farm was expected to pitch in a help. I don’t think you’d see many folks doing manual labor to this extent in today’s world... we think we have it so tough.
Back in the day when family’s meant something, and neighbors helped neighbors.
I doubt the kids were a great help, not at first, but this is how you learn to work, learn the satisfaction of being a productive part of the team and the good feeling of a job well done. We are severely missing all these things in most of this country today, especially in child rearing.
I like how much footage there is of International Harvester tractors and implements. I saw a Farmall F-20, an “A”, and an “H.”
Great stuff and a seldom view into a time, we only hear about today - from the ‘good old days’ and when our parents tells us stories about their youth!
These movies are priceless to the wonderful families living there and in preserving some record of Americana. So many facets of yesteryear now celebrated in folk art: farms, Farmall tractors,haystack, cats, geese, dogs,back porches, the old country church, family gatherings.
A lot of people today will look at these videos and think they come from another planet but for me I see my dad and uncles and oh shit there is border collie just like ours.Even those striped shirts remind me of my youth.
Thanks! I remember all the good memories! All that work never hurt any of us.
Great footage of days gone by. Thanks for sharing.I also love those old cars!
I thoroughly enjoyed that. Such amazing footage capturing wonderful times and places.
How precious are the little ones. How impressionable now is the time to teach them the ways of the Lord, by us becoming like little children in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ ♥️
The images shown here are a near exact replica of my childhood which I don't care to remember If turning your kids into procreated farm slaves at the risk of getting them hurt and or killed might be your "ways of the Lord" you know but they are not the ways of the Lord I know because all you need to do is to look at the number of kids seriously injured and killed in farm accidents.
@@mdvzzxx very polite response to that person.
The grain measuring device on the threshing machine looks a lot like the rotary weigher system that my grandfather invented. I don’t know that it is, but it looked a lot like that. Pretty neat to see.
Great home movies! I found these a while ago, and liked them enough to show my parents, who are in their 60's and have farmed since the early 70's. They really enjoyed the nostalgia, and seeing the two boys grow up. Thank you for sharing!
LOVE these film clips!!! Takes me back to my farm boy days in southern Minnesota!!! Thanks for sharing!!! ;o)
Wow,what hard workers,Thank you for this interesting and educational footage.
Everything was authentic. Everything was real
This is just too good, I well remember this at fourteen years of age I tended the blower and couldn't wait to try my hand at pitching onto the wagon or feeding the thresher, water to drink was kept in a brown glass jug wrapped in burlap then soaked in water to keep it cool. ♥️thank you for sharing.
My sister Married a farmer in the Wilton ,Walcot area back in the mid 80s
Similar to the ones on our farm. My uncle owns the tractor that my grandpa had delivered on a truck, brand new from the dealer; someone filmed its arrival.
Look at that not one person with a cell phone glued to their hand !!! And the people are clean ! . people on a Sunday visiting . Look what we have boiled down to. A bunch of bumbs. Farms and farm animals have kept family's together Look kids smiling !!
Awesome Comment, I Agree Good Times Bad Times, Life Was Great Then Look At Us Now Most People Overweight And Dressed Like Slobs😢
Thanks for sharing🙂
They had great taste in tractors red power
Hi, I'm working on a documentary that has scenes of farming in the 60s and 70s. Would you be open to me using some shots from this video in our documentary?
This is the era music man was made in,thats also the time period wheir playing right know in music man the play.
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Perfume and casseroles
Great movies is that Peace UM church building?
Yes it is.
The Gym Was A Hay Rack Or Putting Sqare Bales In The Hay Mow
Kids Outside ??
Hey, I'm working on a small commercial for my company. Would you be open to letting me use 5-10 seconds of a clip from this video?
Yes that would be ok. Please give credit somewhere. Also I would be very interested in viewing it when you are done to see how it looks! So please let me know. Thanks
@@wowsk975 of course!!
@@wowsk975 Hey would these same requests apply if I wanted to use some clips in a documentary? Can you share an email so I can confirm with you? Thanks
@@jeffreychristian6508 Yes that is fine.
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Iowa is made up of the best people in the world: Germans and Scandinavians!
Didn't have to keep track of your carb and calorie intake to maintain a healthy body weight in those days.
@Sincere Roman Bet it have you a heaping helping of viruses, too.
@@pineapplepen540 This is 1950s, dude, not the Dark Ages. Pretty good medicine. And what does that have to do with the fact that obesity was fairly nonexistant with hard work and a good diet?