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Johnson (Elmer and Vivienne) Collection of Farming Home Movies
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 1 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 1
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Silent color home movie showing the Johnson family at home or on vacation, including road trips to Utah and Wyoming between 1945 to 1964.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 2 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 2
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Silent color home movie showing the Johnson family at home or on vacation, including road trips to Utah and Wyoming between 1945 to 1964.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 3 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 3
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Silent color home movie showing the Johnson family at home or on vacation, including road trips to Utah and Wyoming between 1945 to 1964.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 4 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 4
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Reel 4 shows the rice fields flooded with water for planting, and a crop duster flying over the rice fields to drop the germinated rice seed. Reel 4 also shows rice being harvested with a reaper, and bags of sown rice stacked and ready for transport. The reel depicts rice transported via a pipe above a platform on the left side of the harvester, and the bottom of the pipe is shaped like an inverted "Y" with a lever that can direct the rice down one side or another. A burlap bag is attached on the side for filling. Once the bag is full, it slides down to the ground where it is picked up.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 5 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 5
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Silent color home movie showing the Johnson family at home or on vacation, including road trips to Utah and Wyoming between 1945 to 1964.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 6 1947

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 6
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Silent color home movie showing an almond orchard, farm machinery, aerial footage, and Vivienne Johnson getting into the family's new 1947 Buick Roadmaster.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 7 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 7
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Silent color home movie showing the Johnson family at home or on vacation, including road trips to Utah and Wyoming between 1945 to 1964.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 8 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 8
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Reel 8 shows rice farming, including Elmer Johnson wading through the rice fields as water is pumped in from the canal to flood the rice fields. Later footage shows rice as it is harvested and loaded onto a truck by conveyor belt. Also depicted is the seeding of rice by plane. Reel 8 also includes footage of the almond trees in bloom, as well as farm workers harvesting almonds by hand. When the almonds are ready to be harvested, a low wagon is driven up to each tree and a large tarp placed around the base of the tree. Workers use axe handles with tire tread wrapped around the end to knock tree trunks and shake nuts loose and onto the tarp. Almonds are then gathered and loaded with shovels into sacks. This reel shows filled sacks stacked on top of each other ready for transport.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 9 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 9
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Silent color home movie showing rice and almond farming in California's Central Valley between 1945 to 1964.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 10 1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 10
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Silent color home movie filmed near Dunnigan, California, showing the process of reaping and threshing rice through the use of a combine.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 11 1955-1959

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 11
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Silent color home movie filmed near Dunnigan, California, showing a bulldozer cutting open rice checks to allow harvest equipment to enter.
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Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 12 1945-1964

Elmer and Vivienne Johnson farming home movies, reel 12
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Silent color home movie showing aerial footage of farmland and crops.
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