# STEEL IS A FARMER 1960s AMERICAN IRON & STEEL INSTITUTE PROMOTIONAL FILM 87584

This color film “Steel Is A Farmer” was produced for the American Iron and Steel Institute sometime in the 1960s. It opens with a farmer on a tractor (:27). The importance of this profession is measured in crops to feed people (:52) and produce clothing, represented as men’s suits and ties ( 1:00 ), on clothing racks ( 1:06 ), and on mannequins of women wearing dresses with Peter Pan collars and a head scarf ( 1:11 ) and paisley prints ( 1:18 ). A Massey Ferguson tractor pulls a plow ( 1:50 ) and a Massey Ferguson combine thrashes a field ( 1:58 ). Other farming steel equipment is shown ( 2:19 ), including a disc ( 2:44 ) and fertilizer equipment ( 3:02 ). A crop duster airplane is also used ( 3:33 ). Sweet and field corn is harvested by machinery ( 3:49 - 4:20 ). A Massey Ferguson 510 combine is shown in action ( 4:22 ), as is a peanut harvester ( 4:40 ), a broccoli harvester ( 4:42 ), and a potato harvester ( 4:50 ). Farms also use steel arch buildings ( 5:05 ) and grain elevators ( 5:28 ). Steel machinery can automatically mix the perfect blends of feed ( 5:29 - 6:22 ). Dairy farms use steel feed storage structures into which a machine blows in grain ( 6:31 ) and milking parlors use stainless steel and glass to prevent contamination until it can be transported ( 6:49 - 7:26 ). Swine raising also uses feed stored in steel structures that is then distributed to the hogs via machinery ( 7:34 - 9:50 ). A woman uses a keypunch machine and computer punch cards to program their…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/87584SteelIsAFarmerWARPTEST)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
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