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It Takes Everybody to Build This Land

1951/19 min 57 sec/74 shots

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This 1951 film explains how specialization and cooperation shape American industry and agriculture. It moves from farm work, household production, and improved tools to timber cutting, sawmills, factories, and expanding cities, emphasizing the many skilled occupations required to produce and deliver goods. A left-populist folk-style score reinforces its theme of economic interdependence.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: Ritter Young Lerner Associates
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land
Date: 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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