Windbreaks on the Prairies

Windbreaks on the Prairies

| 21 min
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This short film serves as a cautionary tale to farmers who recklessly cut down trees on their land. When prairie farmers engaged in this practice to facilitate plowing, they discovered that the trees had served as windbreaks protecting top soil from erosion. The Dominion Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, cultivated acres of young trees for distribution to farmers.

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Windbreaks on the Prairies, Evelyn Cherry, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Evelyn Cherry
  • producer
    Evelyn Cherry
  • script
    Evelyn Cherry
  • camera
    Lawrence Cherry
  • sound
    G.A. Thurling
  • editing
    Evelyn Cherry
    Lawrence Cherry
  • narrator
    Tommy Tweed
  • music
    Maurice Blackburn

  • None

    These old documentaries are really great.

    None, 20 Jan 2022

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