Hemp for Victory

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Movie
Original title Hemp for Victory
Hemp farm.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1943
length 15 minutes
Rod
Director Raymond Evans
script Brittain B. Robinson
music Reuben Ford
camera Walter K. Scott
occupation
Hemp for Victory

Hemp for Victory is a fourteen -minute American documentary film that was made for the United States Department of Agriculture in 1942 . It was intended to encourage farmers to cultivate industrial hemp , for which the American military had an increased need during the Second World War , but the cultivation of which had been banned since 1937.

history

During the Second World War, important hemp growing areas were controlled by the Japanese. The American armed forces mainly needed hemp to make ropes for the US Navy . To meet demand, the Ministry of Agriculture in 1942 launched a campaign to achieve that by American farmers a total of 1200 km 2 hemp would grown. In the course of this campaign, the film "Hemp for Victory", in German "Hemp for Victory", was shot.

In the 1980s, the film began to circulate among hemp activists.

content

The film starts with a general history of hemp cultivation and hemp products. Then, using examples from Kentucky and Wisconsin , we will show how hemp is grown, how it is made into ropes, cords, clothes and cordage, and where it is used afterwards.

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