# Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000465

Historically significant footage of California agriculture and extractive industry in the 1930s. Filmed in Kern County, the reel documents agricultural workers in fruit orchards and lettuce fields and on strike, with attention to the equipment and working conditions of the era. Created by a medical researcher studying disease transmission within agricultural communities. With documentation of a wildflower superbloom, and of oil fields at work and the landscape and topography of the region.

- Kind: Home movie
- By: Charles Edward Smith
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/204915_Smith_Collection_000465)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/204915_Smith_Collection_000465?play=1)