A farm of his own! It's nothing like it is today! We poison the food we feed our animals and what we eat with chemicals Monsanto! Oh I miss the days when I was younger and working in the garden, feeding animals, putting up hey, lol and 4H! Nothing more wholesome than living on a farm. I remember watching the neighbor's in the field and the worry of the weather and such! They had a lot of acreage. This brought back good memories! I remember writing a poem for literature class about the fields the seed, the seeds of life and the future of the way we treat mother earth! To bad they didn't get what it was about. Maybe one day we'll learn better to take care of what we have, even people! ❤
Thanks for the wonderful nostalgic film, a time in our history when most people had to work hard to make a living to provide food for America's growing population.
my two older cousins lived in Kansas City and they would come down to our farm during the summer when they were in High School to work on the farm.. Good times.
In 1958 or thereabouts when Mr. Blazey was ready to retire, 400 acres were sold to the Finger Lakes Race Track. Two years later another 400 acres were sold to Farmbrook for a housing development. A small number of acres were sold for the construction of the Trooper's Barracks. The only remaining structure of the Blazey farm is the cinder block building which is owned by MC Automotive. The cinder block barn (shown in the welding scene) was built in 1946 after the original barn burned down in December of 1945.
I'm not totally sure although I do know they continued farming for many years. The parents (Everett and Elizabeth) are now deceased and all the children have passed with the exception of Everett Jr. who is still living in the area.@@Ray-Smith23
Man that would be a dream to live on that farm, I don't see how these rich people by little penthouse in the city or mansions, something like this is worth much more for your soul and happiness!
Beautiful Ford 8n. That’s what I learned to drive a tractor on with a Mott mower. The 53-54 F100 and the Ford Golden Jubilee tractor too. I like the 1952 Ford car
pam Stine it’s so sad that the whole farm is gone. My dream since I was a kid was to be a farmer. I’ve had the American dream that was the same as people 60 years ago.
Pam, I've found the race track on Google maps, but I can't find the barn. Can you give me some idea as to where it is at with relationship to current hwy 332 and some of the current landmarks? Thanks in advance.
To say it the an old farmer would have when I was a kid (I'm 78), "That's the way I was growed up." Ain't nothing like a farm. I'd go back to those days in a heart beat, if only I could.
I'm not certain, but it seems to me that 800 acres would have been an unusually large farm for upstate NY even in the '50s. Growing up in the '70s & '80s, and having traveled the whole state often since then, most farms I've visited seemed to fall in the 100-400 acre range. Of course, I'm just another city boy, what do I know?
I 😊😊 do remember going 2 the fair when I was a kid 😊🎉 it was alit different back then from what it is now I 😮😮 didn't get 2 go 2 the fairs in the 1940s 1950s that was be 4 my time and back then they had the tractor 🚜 😊 dealers at the local fairs back U could see the new tractors and equipment they had unless U could go 2 town and the tractor 🚜 😊 dealership was on main Street in town 😊😊 back then alot of people knew U and U could get what U wanted brand new 😊🎉OMG 3 22 2O24
I know, nowadays machinery is even bigger than they had, sometimes it makes me sad, but proud also of our legacy as a nation to make big machines. To get more crops planted/harvest before the rains.
Back when kids took on challenges early and became useful members of society. Now a days, 16 yr olds know nothing other than how to install apps on their smart phones...
Come on, now. That's not quite true, not of all 16-year olds. I have encountered a lot of young adults and even known a few that fit that description. I also work with adults who never let that phone leave their hand. No one asked or cares but I think these kids/sad adults haven't found and/or been exposed to anything that has sparked a visceral need inside them to learn more. Other than a song, a video, and believing you've joined the mega popular world of influencers that will impress people you don't know and will never meet if you just buy them a beer on Patreon or buy their product, these human beings are missing out on a great deal about what makes them them. What makes them human. Why do they like music so much, or the beautiful colors and art in those videos. Wait a minute, when I sing, I sound just as good as her or him! Well, maybe you just found yourself a hobby or even a new career. Open your eyes to why the things that interest you, interest you! My soapbox crumbled sometime ago and the wood shard is stabbing my toe so I will take my leave.
Yup nowadays city age teenagers are girlys cuz my brother had a 16 year old girlfriend once same age as we were that time, when he was in school long story short he asked her if she wanted to help rake hay, or help carry and stock hay, naturally she thought "i can do that" blah blah blah, than next thing after of each of it of waking or even carrying and stocking hay, she whine and complained about it.
this was a wonderful America. I don't know if I should consider myself lucky to have grown up in a time and area where most high school boys had part time/summer jobs farming or logging, or if I'm unlucky because I was there to see it all disappear. If you were born in the 90s or later maybe things seem ok?
ToddtheWadd you were lucky. I would’ve loved growing up in the 50s and work on a farm and eventually own one. It was the American Dream back then and that’s my dream too but I’m about 60 years too late as I am only 25 years old.
Wunderful video we live on a small scale farm, I understand what this video shown. Cuz we been noticing that farming is a gamble game, of planting crops in time, hoping they gotten a good amount of rain, holp they don't die due to drought, same thing with our hay fields, and hopefully we get hay cut, dried and baled and covered before the rain. But it's like my dad said once "if framing was easy, everybody would be doing it" but sides it's a 50,50 change of making good profit lots of people don't want to do it. So instead they whether to live in a city which is fine by me, they can eat food for only God knows how long it's been harvest/ made/ where it came from.
that part whit 4H is funny since we in Norway still have lots of 4H clubs still alive and even I was once a member of one club when I was small and moved to a farm
From what my dad told me being a farm hand back then (in Ireland) was not so much fun. Sometimes you were lucky if you actually got paid and I never heard him say that the employer left him eat with the rest of his family around the same table.
At least 3 families I worked for in the 80s up until the mid 90s here in the US always took good care of me. The women always sent my lunch to the barn and fresh lemonade. I ate dinner with them, always got a new hat, coat and gloves in winter, and a Christmas gift. I even had keys to the house in case I needed something when nobody was around. It wasn't that long ago and it seemed such a different world. One place I worked at as a teen bought me new tires for my first truck to make sure I got safely to work each day. The farms are gone now and the fields all have houses in them belonging to people who don't even wave when you drive by.
when U 😊😊 grow up in the country U get use 2 other sounds that U grew up w the birds singing 🎶 😊 crickets 🦗 😊 frogs 😊🎉 Bob whites 😊🎉 whip wills hoot 🦉 owls 😊 bobcats 😊 coyotes 😊 now or then it isn't like it was when I was growing up and all of the old people then didn't mind fixing U something 2 eat or drink back then they didn't like 2 see anybody hungry or wanted something 2 drink now 2 day none of those old people are left no more 😮😮 OMG 3 22 2O24
A wonderful, truly "American" promotional film. It's romanticized, sure, but compelling. The kind of life many of us have imagined. I looked into the film for more information. After watching the film I was hoping to find the Blazey family still on the farm, still carrying on the tradition. But sadly the Balzey farm is no more. Only a barn remains. The rest was sold off and redeveloped in the 1960s.
Chance Russell Appreciate the information you provided about the Balzey Farm. It would have been a nice way to end this story and a happy one if that farm would have still been there. The film was promotional but that is what gave one a warm feeling as you go through the summer on farm with this young man who was not afraid of hard work.
Of note there is a John Blazey tractor dealer 12 miles from Farmington that their website says has been in business since 1935. Also I found that tombstone market of Joseph Wood, died March 22, 1867 as buried in Hathaway Cemetery, in Farmington, NY. It shows up on google maps now surrounded by development. I’ve yet to locate the original Blazey farmhouse. I’m willing to bet Mr Blazey bought his Ford tractors from that Palmyra dealership.
Thank you for the comments - all good information. I believe you are correct in saying that Everett Blazey purchased his equipment from the Blazey dealer in Farmington. Regards, Ken
Your welcome Ken. The John Blazey tractor dealership has been in business since 1935. After looking at obituaries, John Blazey is Everett Blazey’s brother. Currently that dealership is in Palmyra. Also of note I came across this lecture from Pat Bolger, who is Everett’s nephew. Eddie Blazey who is in the film also talks. The audio sounds muddy on my tv, but on my iPhone it’s much clearer. Enjoy. This gives additional info about the making of American Farmer. ua-cam.com/video/pQ_diU6d83o/v-deo.html
@@georgiabigfoot Wow! This is great info and news to me. I know Eddie and Den very well but was unaware of their speeches. I will share this with family. Many thanks!
Your welcome. I love how this film touches the hearts of all who see it. My grandfather was a peach farmer in Texas, born the same year as Everett, my Uncle is the same age as Eddie. Everyone I watch this film. I see the Blazey family as though they were my family, and I have a hunch many others feel the same way. Now, if I can just get my 1949 8N to get a good spark.
Your welcome. I love how this film touches the hearts of all who see it. My grandfather was a peach farmer in Texas, born the same year as Everett, my Uncle is the same age as Eddie. Everyone I watch this film. I see the Blazey family as though they were my family, and I have a hunch many others feel the same way. Now, if I can just get my 1949 8N to get a good spark.
How sad to hear that mr blazey sold off the farm... especially since in the movie they mention he could never live without it. :/ farming is in my blood.
I see no mention of any dairy herd! Imagine having to work at these crops all day and having to milk cows and do chores taking up around 3 hours both ends of the day at the same time! Welcome to the world of dairy farming - the hardest type of farming there is. Some of it I miss, most of it I don't. This film looks like a walk in the park compared to what I had to do in my younger years. Which means these folks are smarter than I was!
I know what you mean about the dairy farming. At least the way it used to be. There was one year when things were tougher than usual and my dad had to get a factory job for the winter. I was 12 and had to milk 20 cows by myself before school. I could only fill the milk cans half way as that was all I could lift into the water tank. I could have made farming my career but my heart just wasn't into it. I still love farms, but it takes a special type of person to operate one.
The question that remains unanswered is, what tractor did Mr. Blazley (?) have that was big enough to pull the 5-bottom plow that he was welding on. At the time that this picture was made FORD had nothing bigger than 25, maybe 30 horsepower, and to think that he farmed "about 800 acres" is equally improbable. It was not until 1960-1961 that Ford manufactured a tractor (the 6000) that MIGHT have been capable of pulling a 5-bottom plow, so, something is missing, something that was NOT a Ford product.
Good point. Far down in the description might be the awnser: "The Ford Motor Company was concerned that Mr. Blazey did not use Ford equipment (or implements manufactured by Ford) during the harvest. Some of the equipment was International Harvester- a competitor. Ford insisted the harvest scenes be re-filmed with Ford equipment. At this point the harvest was over at the Blazey farm and a new location needed to be found. Ford flew the film crew and Everett Blazey to Calgary, Alberta where grain was still standing and filmed the scene with Ford equipment. Roberta said ‘Dad was wearing a sweater in Alberta and it was way too hot in Canandaigua for wearing a sweater during the harvest’." Hope this helps. Ken Hook, grandson of Everett Blazey.
About the only tractor being built in 1953 that would pull a five bottom plow was the Massey Harris 55 Diesel which produced nearly 60 HP on the drawbar in the Nebraska tests. With a farm that big Blazey likely had one but they probably hid it behind the corn crib while shooting the Ford video.
yes people worked hard back then just like they do 2 day then money went alot futher and everything was alot cheaper than 2 day people back then enjoyed 😉 😊 there self alot and when the fair came 2 town people took a break and went 2 fair and enjoyed there self after WW2 was over people and America 🇺🇸 😀 went back 2 work then new cars, trucks ,tractors were being made again and everything didn't have go 4 the war effort any more and when the drive in movies came a bought U could stay in the car or truck outside and watch a movie I still remember the drive in movies when I was a kid growing up years ago now kids 2 day they don't know what a drive in movie is 2 day but I do yes I can still remember it wasn't that long ago 2 me OMG 11 25 2O22
Quite a prosperous farm family to own a TV in 1953.... even one with a tiny B&W screen. With the very small grain bin on the combine, it wasn't worth the effort to tarp it from the rain storm and then get soaked.
With a farm that size, they would have been milking in the dark at both ends of a day. Or maybe mrs blazed and her daughter do the milking mostly. I'm a retired dairy farmer.
IVE seen this movie be 4 U leave the city and go 2 country that's where the real work begins on a farm IVE heard of a big farm 10,000 acres the corn 🌽 rows must been 10 miles long or more OMG 11 25 2O22
He was running 8n or 9n and on dealers lot they had ne jubilees or 100 serious haha thats the next up to be on his farm id love to see his farm 40 years latter all the new tecnolagy
Amazing pilling combin do all the work with a little 8n now days people keep them to pull the wagon every farmer with 400 acres has 200hp tractor and 6 70 hp to do all other work powre combines and bailor. Power windrows. And hard day is when ac quits
Re: the film quality, it was originally shot on 16mm film in the early 1959s so the quality would have been quite good, This digital copy was made from a VHS tape which was downgraded from film and lost a lot of pixels. Unfortunately, it was the only copy I had to digitize. Re: acting, the only 'actor' was the child actor Tony. All the rest are real life people do their normal day-to-day duties.
It didn't take long for me to see that these were real farmers. You can tell by the way they do things. Like checking the wheat heads to see if it is ready for harvest.
Oddly moving for a public service/promotional film. The equipment and stakes have gotten bigger, but the basic message resonates today.
does it still hold up, 7 years later?
A farm of his own! It's nothing like it is today! We poison the food we feed our animals and what we eat with chemicals Monsanto! Oh I miss the days when I was younger and working in the garden, feeding animals, putting up hey, lol and 4H! Nothing more wholesome than living on a farm. I remember watching the neighbor's in the field and the worry of the weather and such! They had a lot of acreage.
This brought back good memories! I remember writing a poem for literature class about the fields the seed, the seeds of life and the future of the way we treat mother earth! To bad they didn't get what it was about. Maybe one day we'll learn better to take care of what we have, even people! ❤
This film had me rethinking my life!! I see my childhood in it so much!
What we once were. Great,great video !!!!
A wonderful journey back to a simpler time for America and especially the American farmer. I DARE someone to remake this film today.
Thanks for the wonderful nostalgic film, a time in our history when most people had to work hard to make a living to provide food for America's growing population.
Now the people are evil and are destroying the land. Funny how things change..
my two older cousins lived in Kansas City and they would come down to our farm during the summer when they were in High School to work on the farm.. Good times.
Mr. Blazey was a wise man.
I agree!
He has been farm a long time he has experience.
In 1958 or thereabouts when Mr. Blazey was ready to retire, 400 acres were sold to the Finger Lakes Race Track. Two years later another 400 acres were sold to Farmbrook for a housing development. A small number of acres were sold for the construction of the Trooper's Barracks.
The only remaining structure of the Blazey farm is the cinder block building which is owned by MC Automotive. The cinder block barn (shown in the welding scene) was built in 1946 after the original barn burned down in December of 1945.
Jee that's sad. I was hoping it'd still be around. Any idea of the two Younger boys are still alive?
That's too bad.I was in hopes the son would carry it on.
What happened to the Blazey family after this was made
I'm not totally sure although I do know they continued farming for many years. The parents (Everett and Elizabeth) are now deceased and all the children have passed with the exception of Everett Jr. who is still living in the area.@@Ray-Smith23
Man that would be a dream to live on that farm, I don't see how these rich people by little penthouse in the city or mansions, something like this is worth much more for your soul and happiness!
GOD is great life is good but people are crazy. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Beautiful Ford 8n. That’s what I learned to drive a tractor on with a Mott mower. The 53-54 F100 and the Ford Golden Jubilee tractor too. I like the 1952 Ford car
What a cutie that city boy is .. i love these films from the 1950s and 40s about farming
Really enjoyed the film. I live in Canandaigua NY. I drive by the former land every day. Always wondered about that barn. Thank you.
pam Stine it’s so sad that the whole farm is gone. My dream since I was a kid was to be a farmer. I’ve had the American dream that was the same as people 60 years ago.
Pam, I've found the race track on Google maps, but I can't find the barn. Can you give me some idea as to where it is at with relationship to current hwy 332 and some of the current landmarks? Thanks in advance.
the good old years of farming,17 i was when i started working on a farm and loved it.it was a big farm back then.
I had a Ford 8n and a Ford 4000, old style. Great tractors, both of them. Wish Ford still made tractors and still made them in the U.S.
great brings back memories
To say it the an old farmer would have when I was a kid (I'm 78), "That's the way I was growed up." Ain't nothing like a farm. I'd go back to those days in a heart beat, if only I could.
Love this video
A family farm of 800 acres in 1953! That would've been a MASSIVE undertaking for multiple crops, that size of equipment, and only the family.
Eightosaurus Spelunk at 10:05 hes working on a 5 bottom plow so that means he has much bigger equipment then those small fords.
@@leroy4065 If that plow was his, then you're surely right
I'm not certain, but it seems to me that 800 acres would have been an unusually large farm for upstate NY even in the '50s. Growing up in the '70s & '80s, and having traveled the whole state often since then, most farms I've visited seemed to fall in the 100-400 acre range. Of course, I'm just another city boy, what do I know?
@@frugalaudio the real farm was 600 hundred acres. You’ll have to look it up!
@@frugalaudio I thought the same, that was a big farm
EXCELLENT POST!
Great film Ken, Brings back good memories while I was growing up in Rural Ontario
why you repping that flag?
@@sb.c Who cares? It’s just a flag. Also, your grammar sucks.
@@ArmpitStudios it’s a youtube comment, idc about grammar. north beat south, easy clap, stop flying the flag 🤷♂️
@@sb.c Yes, it’s a UA-cam comment. That’s even more reason to care about your grammar and typing skills, otherwise you just look like an imbecile.
@@ArmpitStudios 🤷♂️ confederates lost, easiest dub of the 19th century
I 😊😊 do remember going 2 the fair when I was a kid 😊🎉 it was alit different back then from what it is now I 😮😮 didn't get 2 go 2 the fairs in the 1940s 1950s that was be 4 my time and back then they had the tractor 🚜 😊 dealers at the local fairs back U could see the new tractors and equipment they had unless U could go 2 town and the tractor 🚜 😊 dealership was on main Street in town 😊😊 back then alot of people knew U and U could get what U wanted brand new 😊🎉OMG 3 22 2O24
Loved that. Thank you so much for sharing it. :)
awesome video! thanks for putting it on here makes me really appreciate the equipment we have now.
I know, nowadays machinery is even bigger than they had, sometimes it makes me sad, but proud also of our legacy as a nation to make big machines. To get more crops planted/harvest before the rains.
When life was slower and people more grateful
Love this. Thanks for posting it
thank you so much. especially all the information about what happened to the farm and family
I didn't hear the mention of this in the film, but Everett Blazey was President of the Ontario County Fair in 1953 when this film was made.
Back when kids took on challenges early and became useful members of society. Now a days, 16 yr olds know nothing other than how to install apps on their smart phones...
And wonder which bathroom they can use.
lol yup.
Sennmut Yep, and which of the 72 genders to choose on Facebook.
Come on, now. That's not quite true, not of all 16-year olds.
I have encountered a lot of young adults and even known a few that fit that description.
I also work with adults who never let that phone leave their hand.
No one asked or cares but I think these kids/sad adults haven't found and/or been exposed to anything that has sparked a visceral need inside them to learn more.
Other than a song, a video, and believing you've joined the mega popular world of influencers that will impress people you don't know and will never meet if you just buy them a beer on Patreon or buy their product, these human beings are missing out on a great deal about what makes them them. What makes them human. Why do they like music so much, or the beautiful colors and art in those videos. Wait a minute, when I sing, I sound just as good as her or him! Well, maybe you just found yourself a hobby or even a new career.
Open your eyes to why the things that interest you, interest you!
My soapbox crumbled sometime ago and the wood shard is stabbing my toe so I will take my leave.
Yup nowadays city age teenagers are girlys cuz my brother had a 16 year old girlfriend once same age as we were that time, when he was in school long story short he asked her if she wanted to help rake hay, or help carry and stock hay, naturally she thought "i can do that" blah blah blah, than next thing after of each of it of waking or even carrying and stocking hay, she whine and complained about it.
This was fantastic!!!!!!
I love farms too. I was born on a farm.
this was a wonderful America. I don't know if I should consider myself lucky to have grown up in a time and area where most high school boys had part time/summer jobs farming or logging, or if I'm unlucky because I was there to see it all disappear. If you were born in the 90s or later maybe things seem ok?
ToddtheWadd you were lucky. I would’ve loved growing up in the 50s and work on a farm and eventually own one. It was the American Dream back then and that’s my dream too but I’m about 60 years too late as I am only 25 years old.
@@Antiquetractorsetc It's not too late!
Wunderful video we live on a small scale farm, I understand what this video shown. Cuz we been noticing that farming is a gamble game, of planting crops in time, hoping they gotten a good amount of rain, holp they don't die due to drought, same thing with our hay fields, and hopefully we get hay cut, dried and baled and covered before the rain. But it's like my dad said once "if framing was easy, everybody would be doing it" but sides it's a 50,50 change of making good profit lots of people don't want to do it. So instead they whether to live in a city which is fine by me, they can eat food for only God knows how long it's been harvest/ made/ where it came from.
Thanks for posting, can anyone point me in the direction of building plans for that spiffy parts bin rack at 10:25 ?
that part whit 4H is funny since we in Norway still have lots of 4H clubs still alive and even I was once a member of one club when I was small and moved to a farm
Oh oh grandpa tell me a bought the good ole days.
From what my dad told me being a farm hand back then (in Ireland) was not so much fun. Sometimes you were lucky if you actually got paid and I never heard him say that the employer left him eat with the rest of his family around the same table.
At least 3 families I worked for in the 80s up until the mid 90s here in the US always took good care of me. The women always sent my lunch to the barn and fresh lemonade. I ate dinner with them, always got a new hat, coat and gloves in winter, and a Christmas gift. I even had keys to the house in case I needed something when nobody was around. It wasn't that long ago and it seemed such a different world. One place I worked at as a teen bought me new tires for my first truck to make sure I got safely to work each day. The farms are gone now and the fields all have houses in them belonging to people who don't even wave when you drive by.
excellant movie .. life is worst in india for farmers.. today .. 2016 ..till they are far behind the farmer in this movie
Oddly moving for a public service/promotional film. The equipment and stakes have gotten bigger, but the basic message resonates today.
when U 😊😊 grow up in the country U get use 2 other sounds that U grew up w the birds singing 🎶 😊 crickets 🦗 😊 frogs 😊🎉 Bob whites 😊🎉 whip wills hoot 🦉 owls 😊 bobcats 😊 coyotes 😊 now or then it isn't like it was when I was growing up and all of the old people then didn't mind fixing U something 2 eat or drink back then they didn't like 2 see anybody hungry or wanted something 2 drink now 2 day none of those old people are left no more 😮😮 OMG 3 22 2O24
A wonderful, truly "American" promotional film. It's romanticized, sure, but compelling. The kind of life many of us have imagined. I looked into the film for more information. After watching the film I was hoping to find the Blazey family still on the farm, still carrying on the tradition. But sadly the Balzey farm is no more. Only a barn remains. The rest was sold off and redeveloped in the 1960s.
See the notes: It was turned into a race track. Hmmm
Chance Russell Appreciate the information you provided about the Balzey Farm. It would have been a nice way to end this story and a happy one if that farm would have still been there. The film was promotional but that is what gave one a warm feeling as you go through the summer on farm with this young man who was not afraid of hard work.
That when people wanted to work ❤
I live right near there!
Of note there is a John Blazey tractor dealer 12 miles from Farmington that their website says has been in business since 1935. Also I found that tombstone market of Joseph Wood, died March 22, 1867 as buried in Hathaway Cemetery, in Farmington, NY. It shows up on google maps now surrounded by development. I’ve yet to locate the original Blazey farmhouse. I’m willing to bet Mr Blazey bought his Ford tractors from that Palmyra dealership.
Thank you for the comments - all good information. I believe you are correct in saying that Everett Blazey purchased his equipment from the Blazey dealer in Farmington. Regards, Ken
Your welcome Ken. The John Blazey tractor dealership has been in business since 1935. After looking at obituaries, John Blazey is Everett Blazey’s brother. Currently that dealership is in Palmyra. Also of note I came across this lecture from Pat Bolger, who is Everett’s nephew. Eddie Blazey who is in the film also talks. The audio sounds muddy on my tv, but on my iPhone it’s much clearer. Enjoy. This gives additional info about the making of American Farmer.
ua-cam.com/video/pQ_diU6d83o/v-deo.html
@@georgiabigfoot Wow! This is great info and news to me. I know Eddie and Den very well but was unaware of their speeches. I will share this with family. Many thanks!
Your welcome. I love how this film touches the hearts of all who see it. My grandfather was a peach farmer in Texas, born the same year as Everett, my Uncle is the same age as Eddie. Everyone I watch this film. I see the Blazey family as though they were my family, and I have a hunch many others feel the same way. Now, if I can just get my 1949 8N to get a good spark.
Your welcome. I love how this film touches the hearts of all who see it. My grandfather was a peach farmer in Texas, born the same year as Everett, my Uncle is the same age as Eddie. Everyone I watch this film. I see the Blazey family as though they were my family, and I have a hunch many others feel the same way. Now, if I can just get my 1949 8N to get a good spark.
This old film so interesting I’m Montagnards indigenous I grew up on farm I know what it look like.
Nice
How sad to hear that mr blazey sold off the farm... especially since in the movie they mention he could never live without it. :/ farming is in my blood.
The Blazey farm is better known today at Finger Lakes Race Track.
I see no mention of any dairy herd! Imagine having to work at these crops all day and having to milk cows and do chores taking up around 3 hours both ends of the day at the same time! Welcome to the world of dairy farming - the hardest type of farming there is. Some of it I miss, most of it I don't. This film looks like a walk in the park compared to what I had to do in my younger years. Which means these folks are smarter than I was!
I know what you mean about the dairy farming. At least the way it used to be. There was one year when things were tougher than usual and my dad had to get a factory job for the winter. I was 12 and had to milk 20 cows by myself before school. I could only fill the milk cans half way as that was all I could lift into the water tank. I could have made farming my career but my heart just wasn't into it. I still love farms, but it takes a special type of person to operate one.
The question that remains unanswered is, what tractor did Mr. Blazley (?) have that was big enough to pull the 5-bottom plow that he was welding on.
At the time that this picture was made FORD had nothing bigger than 25, maybe 30 horsepower, and to think that he farmed "about 800 acres" is equally improbable.
It was not until 1960-1961 that Ford manufactured a tractor (the 6000) that MIGHT have been capable of pulling a 5-bottom plow, so, something is missing, something that was NOT a Ford product.
Good point. Far down in the description might be the awnser: "The Ford Motor Company was concerned that Mr. Blazey did not use Ford equipment (or implements manufactured by Ford) during the harvest. Some of the equipment was International Harvester- a competitor. Ford insisted the harvest scenes be re-filmed with Ford equipment. At this point the harvest was over at the Blazey farm and a new location needed to be found. Ford flew the film crew and Everett Blazey to Calgary, Alberta where grain was still standing and filmed the scene with Ford equipment. Roberta said ‘Dad was wearing a sweater in Alberta and it was way too hot in Canandaigua for wearing a sweater during the harvest’." Hope this helps. Ken Hook, grandson of Everett Blazey.
About the only tractor being built in 1953 that would pull a five bottom plow was the Massey Harris 55 Diesel which produced nearly 60 HP on the drawbar in the Nebraska tests. With a farm that big Blazey likely had one but they probably hid it behind the corn crib while shooting the Ford video.
yes people worked hard back then just like they do 2 day then money went alot futher and everything was alot cheaper than 2 day people back then enjoyed 😉 😊 there self alot and when the fair came 2 town people took a break and went 2 fair and enjoyed there self after WW2 was over people and America 🇺🇸 😀 went back 2 work then new cars, trucks ,tractors were being made again and everything didn't have go 4 the war effort any more and when the drive in movies came a bought U could stay in the car or truck outside and watch a movie I still remember the drive in movies when I was a kid growing up years ago now kids 2 day they don't know what a drive in movie is 2 day but I do yes I can still remember it wasn't that long ago 2 me OMG 11 25 2O22
Is that the Hawthorne House in Farmington, NY?
If you are referring to the Blazey home in the movie it no longer remains. Apparently the cinder block barn is still standing on Route 332. Cheers.
Quite a prosperous farm family to own a TV in 1953.... even one with a tiny B&W screen.
With the very small grain bin on the combine, it wasn't worth the effort to tarp it from the rain storm and then get soaked.
Wonder of the production company brought the TV in for the film?
Is that farm still in operation
Sadly, the farm is not in operation by any family members. Some of the fields may still be used for agriculture.
before gmo and round up?
You bet and long before the term 'organic' was frequently used...
With a farm that size, they would have been milking in the dark at both ends of a day. Or maybe mrs blazed and her daughter do the milking mostly. I'm a retired dairy farmer.
I would have loved to have gone to their farm repeatedly for the summer job
IVE seen this movie be 4 U leave the city and go 2 country that's where the real work begins on a farm IVE heard of a big farm 10,000 acres the corn 🌽 rows must been 10 miles long or more OMG 11 25 2O22
What's on that property now?
Finger Lakes Race Track.
He was running 8n or 9n and on dealers lot they had ne jubilees or 100 serious haha thats the next up to be on his farm id love to see his farm 40 years latter all the new tecnolagy
i made 2 cents a pound picking string beans in CA in 1967// great work for us high school kids...now what illegaals??boo
Madden Master
My dad worked at a truck farm in those times. Seems every story he tells some how relates.
Madden Master well, good luck getting young Americans to do manual labor.
No crap. The gen z and millennials are a bunch of puzzies.
Great video, are you still alive to comment?
Everett and Elizabeth Blazey passed away many years ago. Only one son remains today. I am one of Everett's grandsons.
Ameryka jakiej już nie ma. O takiej Ameryce śnił mój ojciec osadzony w więzieniu jako polityczny w czasach Stalinowskich.
Who was the young guy who narrated this?
Amazing pilling combin do all the work with a little 8n now days people keep them to pull the wagon every farmer with 400 acres has 200hp tractor and 6 70 hp to do all other work powre combines and bailor. Power windrows. And hard day is when ac quits
This movie was remade many years later..."Son in law" starring Pauly Shore...
A time when you were glad to have what you had and didn’t waste. No sleeping pills needed.
Of course, we know, as the young man was getting back onto the train, the teenage daughter was doing her own calculations in her head.
My God ...what has happened to us?
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wonder what that boy is doing now, must be old .
about 80
The evil he described is now our cell phones and computers
I think he was hittin it with Roberta in the hay loft, but that's for another movie
Alberta.
@@ArmpitStudios Her too?
That's not true he shouldn't say that.
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I don't know. The film quality is too grainy and the acting is corny.
Re: the film quality, it was originally shot on 16mm film in the early 1959s so the quality would have been quite good, This digital copy was made from a VHS tape which was downgraded from film and lost a lot of pixels. Unfortunately, it was the only copy I had to digitize. Re: acting, the only 'actor' was the child actor Tony. All the rest are real life people do their normal day-to-day duties.
artman40 OMG.
It didn't take long for me to see that these were real farmers. You can tell by the way they do things. Like checking the wheat heads to see if it is ready for harvest.
It isn’t acting. This was a real farm in the 50s and so are the people who are the owners
There is now a better transfer of this film at: ua-cam.com/video/mn8ySyvv6Ko/v-deo.html
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