Southwestern States (1942)

Portrays life in areas of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Refers to the topography, rainfall, stock raising and mining industries.

This item is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Keywords: need keyword

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Spuzz - - October 10, 2004
Subject: The way scientific fims should be

Funny watching this and comparing it to Coronet's attempts at making the exact same film.. EB wins by a mile! While it's all pretty run of the mill educational, the film mixes live action, animation, historical reinactments, and hey! racism! The result, a fine example of a goos standard educational film.

Reviewer: Steve Nordby - - August 29, 2003
Subject: Exploitating vast spaces

Some good shots, but mostly a typical circa 1950 film treatment of a high school geography textbook subject. Only 10 cities over 100,000 population in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona combined! Note how oil fields are mapped consistent with the US - Mexico border, how Texas produced up to a quarter of the world's petroleum, and how the oil from fields on Indian lands were the backbone of Oklahoma's economy. Cities new and clean and without smoke. An interesting moment in history.