[AT] 1955 farm equipment films

[Michael Mummert]

Bob,

Since you mention that they show the PSU Ag campus, could it be that this
was filmed during Ag Progress Days that the University puts on (or used to)
every fall?  I don't know if Ag Progress Days went back that far, but I used
to hook off school and tag along with my dad just about every year as a kid
through the 70's & early 80's.

Mike Mummert

P.S.  I'd be interested in a DVD version too.  :)


At 05:09 PM 2/13/05, you wrote:
>Hi All --
>
>This is a fishing expedition of sorts.
>
>I recently acquired a mass of 16 mm film footage of farm equipment, shot
>back in
>1955. It's all from middle Pennsylvania, in color, silent, and in very good
>detail. Plowing, harrowing, planting, forage harvesting, manure spreading,
>hay-making, etc., etc., etc. Mostly Minneapolis-Moline tractors, but some
John
>Deere, some Farmall. Also some footage of the Penn State ag campus, which
was
>celebrating its centennial in 1955. Cattle, silos, and stuff like that.
>
>A professor friend at the college where I work put it up on an editing
machine
>to view it with me, and he says the condition is fine. Glorious Kodachrome
>from
>50 years ago. The colors are wonderful. He can help me get it transferred
to a
>digital format from which we can strike off copies in either VHS or DVD.
>
>I'm asking whether folks would be interested in copies of this historic
stuff.
>My buddy and I could edit it all into maybe 30-45 minutes of viewing time,
>drop
>in a little sound, and make it available on tape or disc.
>
>I need to know of potential interest before I proceed. The transfer to
>digital,
>if done right, costs a few hundred dollars. I'd like to keep the cost of
>copies
>to around $20, if I could.
>
>If you think you might be interested, please drop me a line in the next few
>days. We will be making the decision about the digital conversion then.
>
>It's cool stuff. Took me back to my childhood.
>
>Bob Seith
>1953 Farmall Cub