Power And The Land - Supplying Energy To Rural America

Portrays a farm family from St. Clairsville, Ohio who are members of an REA co-operative, and contrasts their life before and after electricity. More difficult tasks are done "the old way aka the hard way" without the miracle of electrical power. With scenes of a mother and daughter heating water over the fireplace, washing clothes using wash board, farmer loading hay, farm family evening meal, REA meeting, an electric transformer sub-station, power lines on wooden power poles, pies placed in electric oven, radio broadcast, farmer driving tractor, electric pump, person filling ice tray, cows drinking fresh water, vintage electric washing machine, woman basting a roast in electric oven and more.