Life on the Farm: A Texas Family’s 1950s Story (silent)

This intriguing amateur film captures the day-to-day life of a Texas farm family in the early 1950s, offering a candid and occasionally quirky glimpse into rural American life. The film features a husband, wife, and their two children engaged in farm chores and interactions with livestock. It begins with a close-up of the wife, showcasing her beauty and humorously noting some less flattering details. The footage then shifts to scenes of farm animals, including calves nursing and bulls inspecting their surroundings, followed by playful moments with pigs and chickens. Particularly memorable is the farmer demonstrating an old trick to put pigs to sleep and the wife’s lively chicken-handling antics. A mix of humor and raw authenticity makes this a compelling portrayal of mid-20th-century farm life.

We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.