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Series
Local Issue
Episode Number
24
Episode
Death of a Small Farm
Producing Organization
KUON (Television station : Lincoln, Neb.)
Contributing Organization
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-516-183416tt1k
NOLA Code
LOCI
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Description
Episode Description
This episode, originally produced by KUON-TV, Lincoln, Nebraska, charts the demise of the small farm as an American institution pointing up the changes this has wrought in the political, social, and economic framework of the American heartland. R. Neale Copple, director of the University of Nebraska School of Journalism, takes viewers into rural Nebraska for a first-hand look at the problem at the Glenn Bramer farm. Mr. Bramer, who plans to leave the farm, sums up his feelings saying, ?I could have done anything for 20 years and would have been better off than I am today by farming.? In other interviews Mr. Copple talks to: Salem, Nebraska, banker, Harry Houston, whose town has lost half its population in the last 25 years; Lowell Welch, director of the Nebraska Vocational Technical School at Milford, where many young men from Nebraska farms and ranches are training for careers in data processing, drafting and other specified fields; A Humboldt, Nebraska family who intend to remain on their farm; and Dr. Everett Peterson, University of Nebraska agricultural economist, who comments on some of the many reasons why it is not economically feasible to operate a small farm. DEATH OF THE SMALL FARM is a 1967 presentation of National Educational Television. This episode was originally produced by NET?s Lincoln, Nebraska affiliate, KUON- TV. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
In this series several of National Educational Televisions affiliated stations take a close look at controversies in their own areas that may greatly affect the entire nation. Each of the local problems is presented from the points of view of those who have been involved in it, or who have watched its gradual development. The 32 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1967-09-10
Asset type
Episode
Topics
Local Communities
Employment
Economics
Agriculture
Local Communities
Employment
Economics
Agriculture
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:30:57.223
Credits
Executive Producer: Weston, William
Host: Copple, R. Neale
Interviewee: Peterson, Everett
Interviewee: Houston, Harry
Interviewee: Welch, Lowell
Interviewee: Bramer, Glenn
Producing Organization: KUON (Television station : Lincoln, Neb.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-aa632c21658 (Filename)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
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Citations
Chicago: “Local Issue; 24; Death of a Small Farm,” 1967-09-10, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 21, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-183416tt1k.
MLA: “Local Issue; 24; Death of a Small Farm.” 1967-09-10. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 21, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-183416tt1k>.
APA: Local Issue; 24; Death of a Small Farm. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-183416tt1k