[AT] farm machinery films

[Al Jones]

Weget the JD Day tapes for our FFA program from Deere for free about
every year. These are the same tapes they show at the dealer JD Day.
Earliest I have is from 1987.  Many of them have excerpts from the older
movies showing two cylinders right on up through the New Generation
tractors.

Al

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Ralph et al,

I few years ago I bought a VHS of the '57 or '58 John Deere Days movie
from Two-Cylinder club.  I had gone to the original local dealer showing
on a rainy Feb. evening, and still remember the time fondly.  The dealer
would always raffle off a few goodies after the movie, and I had won a
tractor gas funnel that night - the kind that attaches like the gas cap
and is rigid enough to rest a 5-gal can on while your pour to refuel in
the field. Like you,  Ralph, I don't get as excited about this sort of
thing as I did when I was a teen, but had a good time reviewing the film
I had seen 45 or so years earlier.  Walter Cronkite was the narrator.
They had some pretty corny sales pitches, but they had a lot of
interesting things in them too - especially big, new tractors that were
always fast, powerful and never had any dirt on them. In those movies,
the sun was always shining, the farmers had superclean hands and
clothes, and there were no wet or even slightly weedy fields or fading !
 paint on a barn. It was thus obvious that the film had not been made
anywhere near our county ;-). Never did find out where Oz was, as the
movies seemed to hide license plates, road signs or other such clues
that would give away the filming location.

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On 02/13/2005 at 11:10 PM Ralph Goff wrote:

>And speaking of old farm machinery films, how many of you remember
going
>to
>"John Deere Days" or as it was later known, "Farming Frontiers"? ...




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