# Mustard Sowing For Erosion Control

Forest fires ravage wooded slopes in Southern California. Water (melting snow and rain) rushes down the slopes, unchecked by plant life, washing away top soil and flooding fields in the valleys. CCC units sow mustard seed in the denuded areas by hand and by airplane. The mustard plants grow quickly, thus furnishing adequate vegetation to check erosion until the native plants can reestablish themselves. National Archives Identifier: 7416 Local Identifier: 33.549 Creator(s): Department of Agriculture. Federal Extension Service. (01/02/1954 - 04/13/1970) (Most Recent) From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled ca. 1915 - ca. 1959 * Record Group 33: Records of the Extension Service, 1888 - 2000 Level of Description: Item Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images This item was produced or created: ca. 1938 The creator compiled or maintained the series between: ca. 1915 - ca. 1959 General Note(s): Credits: Director, Frederick E. Dunham; story, Clark H. Gleason. * Contributor: Producer, Civilian Conservation Corps Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Silent Accession Number(s): 1286

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1938
- By: Department of Agriculture. Federal Extension Service
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MustardSowingForErosionControl)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.