Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1: Scripted government USDA film with contribution from the Bureau of Entomology, extolling the virtues of crop dusting. This section feature two African American men meeting for dinner, the classic city cousin visiting country cousin scenario played out, the city dweller become frightened by the low flying crop dusting plane. Racial stereotypes & slang dialect of black rural south portrayed.
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
DO NOT USE: Opening Credits
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
TITLE CARD: "City Isom visits County Jim". Scene begins with African American man inside his one room shack / cabin, walls are covered in newspaper print, he sets the table for dinner prior to his visitors arrival. MCU man looking at mantel clock. CU clock reading 5:10. MCU man looking over his shoulder.
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
TITLE CARD: "Come on. Les eat. Us gwinw fishin'." GV two African American men (Isom & Jim) inside one room shack / cabin with walls covered in newspaper print, man on the LT grabs his hat from rack & puts it on, then looks at framed art hanging on the wall, man on the RT checks on food cooking in wood burning oven & on top of stove. MCU first man looking at the Victorian era death memorial hanging on the wall. GV inside cabin as men serve themselves food from pot cooking on the stove. Exterior GV agricultural biplane (crop duster) taxiing in field. GV inside cabin as men serve themselves food from the stove, visting man sits at table to eat. Exterior low angle GV looking up at silhouetted crop duster flying through dusk sky. GV inside cabin as host pours his guest a drink then sits to join him for dinner. Exterior LS crop duster flying extremely low to the ground, spraying as it goes, passing a rural cabin. MCU African American man eating, looking up toward the sky, then at the camera with a puzzled look on his face, exclaiming by means of TITLE CARD: "What's dat?" MCU African American man eating, his response by way of TITLE CARD: "Nothin'. Drink yo' coffe." MCU first man looking around the room, then continuing to eat.
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
Exterior LS agricultural biplane (crop duster) flying extremely low to the ground, spraying as it goes, passing a rural cabin. MS African American man opening cabin door, standing in frame, looking around with a puzzled expression on is face. MCU inside cabin as second man continues to eat his dinner. MS first man standing in doorway looking outside. MCU man returning to dinner table, taking a seat, nervously finishing his dinner, looking around the room due to the unsettling noises of the low flying plane. Exterior GV crop duster flying past the rural shack, spraying as it goes. Interior MCU frightened man, exclaiming through TITLE CARD: "Jim! Jim! What's dat?" MCU Jim eating his dinner, responding through TITLE CARD: "Nothin' 'cept white folk s pizenin' bugs wid a flyin' machine." MCU frightened man, TITLE CARD: "Flyin' machine? Lawd! It skacely missed yo' roof!" MCU man eating, TITLE CARD: ""Sholy. Dey figures on missing' a shack 'bout one inch." MCU man eating, TITLE CARD: ""Set down. Finish yo' grub. Dat feller'll be back directly." MCU man eating.
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
Exterior MS agricultural biplane (crop duster) flying straight toward, then over camera. Great TLS African American man running out of cabin as low flying crop duster sprays chemicals when zooming by, second man steps out onto porch. MS men on porch looking at chemical cloud hovering above farm crops. TITLE CARD: "Lawdy! He sure do make lots o' smoke!" MS men talking on front porch as chemical cloud lingers in BG. TITLE CARD: "Dat ain't smoke. Dats pizen, which dy sprinkles on his tail to make de boll weevil tame." MS two men on the front porch, one seated, the other leaning against post, they are surrounded by farm crops. TITLE CARD: "Sucks! Dey can't kill nary bug dat way!" MS men talking on the front porch, the one standing shakes his finger at the other & exclaims through TITLE CARD: "Hush yo' mouf, fool!" MS men talking on the front porch, the one standing shakes his finger at the other & exclaims through TITLE CARD: "Dis is de onliest time I ever hear a white man say 'step aside, Jim, and em ME do dis work'." MS men on the porch, one standing walks away with his sandwich, the other man follows.
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
MS dog walking across wooden porch of rustic cabin / shack, K9 is followed by two African American men, they take a seat on the front steps. TITLE CARD: "Don't you get out at night an' pizen de weevil wid some corntrapshun pulled by mules?" MS the two men sitting on the wood plank porch, engaged in conversation, man on LT pats the other on the back, his response through TITLE CARD: "We user, but we done foun' a easier way." MS men sitting on porch, man on RT asks through TITLE CARD: "How Come?" MCU men & dog sitting on porch, man on LT answers through TITLE CARD: "Well it wuz dis way. Last summer de boss man tuck a trip to Louizianny an'...." MS men sitting on porch talking.