Stockton is broke and the farms in the San Joachin Valley have had had their irrigation water shut off because its needed by some rare fish or something, say the libs. Billboards all over the place harping about how the irrigation water has been taken away.

Crazy fools. Sell those farms and head to the coast and grow marijuana just like everybody else. A low maintenance cash crop and after all choomin is almost legal here anyway.

I didn't see the Joads. I wonder if they stayed or what.

Some of the older comments were placed well before the housing debacle. Half of Stockton and Sacramento is in foreclosure. Tsk tsk.

I was born in Sacramento and lived in Stockton for a while. It is cool to see footage of the area from the late 1940's.

a rather interesting film with plenty of historically important footage.well worth downloading.it's a bit dull at times, but it's still enjoyable.

Pretty standard film about California, and how the irrigation factors made California towns like Fresno and Sacramento made them into larger communities because of all the agriculture made availible to them. This film is ultra-surprising since it's made by Coronet, who have branched off from social guidance films in the past, but I never knew that the company made films like this. Nice color too.

As a Fresno native, I've seen most of the places in this film, and none of them have changed. Really. Actually, it was very fascinating to have the ocean development of the valley explained (they never did while I was in school there). Good shots, bland narration, not much music overall. Since this film was made, Selma (just south of Fresno) has been christened "Raisin Capital of The World," but Fresno still remains the epicenter of ag trade and the "Midwest of California."