Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films (P 106)

1947-1968
0.1 cubic feet; 6 reels

Scope and Content Note

The Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films document strawberry harvesting in Oregon in the 1960s, especially the development of mechanical harvesting equipment by Oregon State University researchers, and the growing and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley in the 1940s.

Forms

The films are 16 mm, b/w and color. All are silent, except the flax film (P106:6) which includes a soundtrack.

Organization and Arrangement

The films have been assigned individual numbers (P106:1-6).

Related Materials

Other motion picture films of strawberry harvesting are part of the Extension and Experiment Station Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (P 120) and Experiment Station Communications Films (P 132). Several hundred color slides of strawberry harvesting are part of the Bioresource Engineering Photographic Collection (P 106). The Dean E. Booster Papers include research records and photographs documenting the development of a mechanized strawberry harvester.

The Bioresource Engineering Department Records (RG 1) include materials related to flax research. Photographs of flax growing, processing, and research are part of the Bioresource Engineering Department Photographic Collection (P 106).

Inventory

(Box 1)

• 1-4 Strawberry harvesters.
  • 1 1967, color, silent.
  • 2 Clipper, 1968; color, silent.
  • 3 ca. 1960s; b/w.
  • 4 Stripper; color.
• 5 Strawberry harvesting; color.
• 6 Fiber Flax Growing and Processing in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, ca. 1947; 16 mm, color, sound; 18 min. Produced by the Cooperative Research Project of the US Department of Agriculture and the Oregon State College Agricultural Experiment Station. Description from the 1953 Department of Visual Instruction catalog: "Scenes of the growing, harvesting, and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley. Planting, chemical weeding, mechanical pulling, seeding, retting, processing, and use of flax fibers." [Duplication master and DVD use copy available for this film.]