DISCOVERY '68 TV SHOW 1960s LIFE ON A FAMILY FARM IN MIDWESTERN ILLINOIS XD30722

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This episode of Discovery '68, an ABC-produced TV show for children, focuses on a family farm in the American midwest. The host is Bill Owen. The show opens in Villa Grove in Central Eastern Illinois. Flatlands. A young boy feeds chickens. Cows outside a white barn. Opening credits (0:30-0:53). Pan across rural road / landscape (0:54-1:02). Cow and calf in field. Rows of low crops (1:06). Feeding a cow from a bucket (1:10). Five cows grazing (1:27-1:37). Farming family at the breakfast table (1:38). Mother serves fried eggs to tomboy. Family introductions: father, two sons, two daughters, youngest boy (1:58-2:29). Sons emerge, with farm dog, for chores. Small boy holds old laying hen with white feet. Boy feed hen by hand from chicken feeder. Demonstration of chicken diet: hoe oats, corn, supplement, rocks, grit, oyster shell. A waterer is shown. Zoom on white chicken feet (4:06). Teenage sons hoe soil in vegetable field (4:19) while father provides a tour: potato patch, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumber, sweet potato, muskmelon (look like cantaloupe). They pick and halve a muskmelon, camera zoom on halves (4:59). A cucumber on the vine (5:02-5:30). Host picks tomato in tomato patch, inspects bright red tomato by hand (zoomed) (5:45). Farmer pinches a cabbage head; farmer picks cabbage with handknife (6:30), shows small cabbage heads. Move to potato field (6:48), zoom on digging up hill of potatoes with pitchfork under dead potato vines. Farmer demonstrates cutting eyes of potato for planting (7:18). Women hang towels on clothesline (7:47). A woman walks on country road by flower garden (7:56), explains “simple” rural Midwest life is like the suburbs-participation in social organizations: St. Anne’s Society, Parent Teacher Association, Future Homemakers of America, Future Farmers of America, 4H (short scenes). Woman reads a booklet outside (8:14). Getting post from roadside mailbox at end of driveway. Mother helps short-haired girls with canning in kitchen (8:31). Young boy sits alone atop metal gate on country road (8:53). Boy approaches cow and calf in field. Boy feeds hogs in a pen. Two men approach a car and drive on gravel road (farmers commute to faraway parcels of farmland) (9:19). 1970s station wagon pulls up to field (10:09). Two men emerge and approach tall corn crop, inspecting corn stalk for well-pollinated ear (cob). Farmer shows tassel (pollen), zoom on husk (11:25). Man shucks corn ear on stalk to compare pollination (11:58). Farmer holds up nice corn ear (12:26), shells corn, plants seed by hand. Young man on John Deere planter plants crop rows (13:06), with farmhouse behind (seeds are from production company, not commercial corn). Farmer shows parts of machine (closeup): shanks, sweeps, cultivator, seed box, corn seeds with chemical coating. Teenager pours industrial seeds from bag into machine (14:06). Discussion: efficiency / return on investment / farmers’ economic stress (pre- farm crisis). Closeups of machine in action (14:20-14:44). Host walks through soybean fields, holds up plant (14:58), opens bean pod with fingers. Uses of soy meal / oil discussed. Farmer on planter in front of barn, discusses change in farm economy since last generation. Father and son feed cows corn (15:45). Farming walking in field (16:03), discusses getting job in town (seasonal work). Teenager (agriculture student, University of Illinois) holds basket of corn, crosses road (16:20) / shucks corn (16:27). “The future of farming is dim;” he is considering “vocational agriculture” or “horticulture” instead. Discussion: farming’s status in American society (fewer farmers than ever before). Farmers’ sons working outdoors. Farmer puts gas in John Deere planter (17:07). “Farm life is pleasant and rewarding, even if it doesn’t earn them a complete living.” Father and young son paint interior garage door white (17:53). Exterior of garage shown; chickens emerge (18:06). Teenage boy pumps water (18:11). Farmer teaches young son how to milk a cow by hand with pail (18:26). Zoom on hands, teats, milk (18:50), then cow’s face. Father and son watch newborn pigs in pens (19:53). Closeup of baby pigs nursing. Family farm buildings (10:14). Family setting table for supper (20:18). Young boy makes sign of the cross at dinner table (20:33). Family praying silently. At 20:56, host makes closing remarks and advertises book covers (close-up shots): “Miracles on Maple Hill” by Virginia Sorensen, “Farm Boy” by Douglas Gorsline, and “Farm Animals” by Dorothy Chiles Hogner (21:07). Closing credits.
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@kennethjohnson6319 2 жыл бұрын

I will always like when they show how people work on the farm the equipment the land they work and what they grew and all the farm animals they took care of in 1960 Illinois

@danorthsidemang3834 2 жыл бұрын

THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT

@keithstudly6071 2 жыл бұрын

I think that even at this time the farm folks felt like they had to live up to the expectations of the city folks. My family had many farmers and I remember going to stay with them in the summer. I was kind of disappointed that they did not have any milk cows, the chickens were not something they really had for any reason other than habit and they didn't really get any cash from them, the garden was there because they liked to keep garden and have fresh vegetables. By 1967 what made the farm profitable was grain, pigs and cattle. Dairy farming had become a specialty by then, as would a chicken farm. My grandmother had layer chickens but that ended in 1966 and for decades you would see decaying, disused chicken coops near every old farm house. I was 8 in 1967 and living in central Indiana so I can say I saw that life first hand. When I was visiting, in mid summer the days really were mainly about bailing straw and hay, which you didn't do till the sun has dried the dew in late morning. I really think that this program was 'candy coated' to give the TV audience what they expected What was missing was the social life at church, school and fraternal organizational like the Elks, Moose, Lions, Sons of Pythias, VFW and American Legion that were a big part of life outside the big cities.

@shawnmalone9711 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you for uploading this show. Discovery used to come on Sundays, Channel 7, KABC, Los Angeles back in the day. In those days the only thing on TV were old movies, religious TV shows or sports. We watched it because it was a TV show for kids.

@ArmpitStudios 11 ай бұрын

That’s a pretty neat show. The family wasn’t too nervous or awkward in front of the cameras. What’s not to love about stuff like this?

@brentschmitt3338 2 жыл бұрын

That’s right

@dcrog69 2 жыл бұрын

I like how they made little Timmy get some paint on the hinge.

@chillydawgg4354 2 жыл бұрын

THAT'S RIGHT

@scottrayhons2537 2 жыл бұрын

That was always a great show to watch on Sunday mornings at 11 am at my grandparents house after church let out.

@SoSoPrettyMS21 2 жыл бұрын

Very neat video!

@marvwatkins7029 2 жыл бұрын

My godmother grew up on a central Illinois farm, near Danville. It's even a lot worse than now.

@manhoot 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing like being down on the farm

@MSwarlordTV 2 жыл бұрын

I was there :)

@jonhohensee3258 2 жыл бұрын

So .. you and the Mrs. prefer to "get it on" in the corn field... THAT'S RIGHT.

@brentschmitt3338 2 жыл бұрын

Ha!

@bobbyray9825 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, I was Timmy. Only in SW Indiana

@nomadcowatbk 2 жыл бұрын

so what happened to the farm?

@marvwatkins7029 2 жыл бұрын

And their predictions and trends proved true.

@SciHeartJourney 2 жыл бұрын

I call that place the "Middle West". 🤣

@Lisa-di1wi Жыл бұрын

Or as Eva Gabor said on Green Acres, "The Middle Vest."

@melchristian8876 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍💯💯🇺🇲🇺🇲

@tomservo56954 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how they discovered that feeding chickens ground oyster shells would make their eggshells harder?

@willtell8842 2 жыл бұрын

Chickens eat egg shells, oyster shells are thicker and harder.

@gentlegiants1974 4 ай бұрын

He may be crying about the low income, but those tractors are top of the line late models, the planter as well. Going into debt for the latest tech is not a new thing, and it will bite you. Farmers were in a mad rush to modernise and ditch their horses and the equipment they already had paid for to keep up with the times and the Jones's.

@derrickbarnes5352 2 жыл бұрын

James died November 20th 2004

@jupitercyclops6521 2 жыл бұрын

Derrick Barnes! How the hell are you? You're from Missouri, not Illinois, remember?

@kalbright3275 2 жыл бұрын

That's the month _before_ my brother was even born!

@fastsetinthewest Жыл бұрын

R.I.P.

@jcksnghst 2 жыл бұрын

I'll bet little Timmy has a hard time catching his breath. Wtm,. 🤔🤪

@paulfabre6058 2 жыл бұрын

Did ABC blatantly rip off Discovery 68 at 0:34 seconds for the Partridge Family credits?!?!?!

@jmc1999a 2 жыл бұрын

42? That farmer looks like he's 70.

@BELCAN57 2 жыл бұрын

Farm life must have been hard in the sixties😆

@videodistro 2 жыл бұрын

More like 50. Lots of sun.

@SoSoPrettyMS21 2 жыл бұрын

💀🤣🤣

@archenema6792 2 жыл бұрын

The Farm Country is pretty much anywhere there isn't desert or tundra or mountains or cities. It's even farm country in a few of those places. We are classified as H Sapiens Sapiens to differentiate us from H Sapiens Neanderthalis and H Sapiens without further qualification to delineate primitive humans. I suggest we have become H Sapiens Agriculturensis.😂😉🤣

@jmc1999a 2 жыл бұрын

He cut the melon without washing it. E-Coli anyone?

@Dadsezso 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like you didn't live on a farm in the 60's. I grew up on a farm in northern Indiana in the 50's and 60's. There was no such thing as e coli from fresh farm food. When there were things available to eat from the garden, we'd pick it and wipe the dust off it and eat it right on the spot. If you rinsed off a melon, it was to get the dirt off it before you cut into it, not e coli.

@tomyrody4412 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dadsezso there was it just was a harmless version

@jmc1999a 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dadsezso Has nothing to do with freshness or cleanliness. When you grow produce and raise animals in close proximity, there is a very good chance of contamination. It's common sense to take the precaution to wash produce. I agree E-coli outbreaks were less common 60 years ago on smaller farms.

@budmull 2 жыл бұрын

WTF is the annoying counter for? Move the GD thing!

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@marvwatkins7029 2 жыл бұрын

Not a lot of individual looks in this family. For example: the females all have the same styles of glasses and hair. And none of them are flattering, even for 1968. They look more like '58. Is that conservatism at work? And not just rural, Midwestern 1960's conservatism? Maybe the father demands it or its some religious thing ("law").

@brentschmitt3338 2 жыл бұрын

That’s right.

@d.m.3645 2 жыл бұрын

Some of it was going along with the norms, another part of it was there wasn't a lot of variety at the local store. My dad was born in 1950 and this documentary really looks like all the pictures of him when he was growing up on the farm. The farm couple in the film could have been my grandparents, though I think this makes things look a lot more idyllic than they actually were.

@ArmpitStudios 11 ай бұрын

I guess you’ve never heard of or noticed periodic styles and fashion.