Many of my subscribers know that I have a large collection of films from the 1950s and 1960s in addition to the films I produced back then. This clip is from a film and I unfortunately only have the clip. It looks to be from the late 1950s or early 1960s. I am sure that one of the viewers of this clip will know the film that it came from.

The statement by this woman actress I found extremely powerful which is why I am posting it. The scene is a middle-class to upper middle-class suburban get-together – a party. Everyone is perfectly dressed and acting perfectly normal disturbed by something in the political landscape. I don't know what as I don't have the entire film to watch.

This woman, a farmer from a farm family, makes a statement about the power and the security and the safety and the certainty of her land. And the family that she is raising and the family that she comes from and the security and comfort of that experience.

I know that this is not every American's experience from that time as I have interviewed people who have had very different experiences and, trying to read most of the comments on my film clips each day, I come upon clips regularly where people remember their upbringing as from not so good to horribly bad.

I have made a major documentary on the State of Kansas (1988) and have spent a good deal of time in the Midwest in and around farm communities and individual farm families. Wheat farmers. Corn farmers. Pig farmers. In general, I have found strong family units with a surprising number of the children desiring to stay on the farm and keep it going for the next generation. I'm not saying this was all of the people I met because I also witnessed parents who were just horrible to their children and children desperate to leave the farm, the community, and the State.

I am interested to read the comments on this statement and will do so as much as possible.
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