" THE ROMANCE OF THE REAPER " 1937 INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER PROMO FILM CYRUS MCCORMICK 10604
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This 1937 black & white, International Harvester promotional film is about Cyrus Hall McCormick, an American inventor. McCormick was responsible for revolutionizing agriculture throughout the country with the invention of the mechanical reaper which was used by farmers to harvest crops mechanically. This machine proved to be revolutionary as it made harvesting much easier and efficient. Cyrus McCormick founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
Title: International Harvester presents The Romance of the Reaper (:16-:39). Country fields. Fields of grain. Hand farming: a man cuts through the grain with a sickle, which is being used to cut down the crop. A group of men swing sickles. Men swing a cradle which is easier than a standard sickle. Country and hillsides. Valley of the Blue Ridge mountains. A Virginia farm. Cyrus McCormick uses a tool and hits a blacksmith's anvil. McCormick carries a piece of wood (:40-3:14). McCormick watches his father talk with other men. They come and visit the son. The point at a machine. The men look at the time. Cyrus works with an African American man named Joe Anderson as they try and create a mechanical reaper. Cyrus hammers together pieces while his younger brother looks on (3:15-5:44). Other brothers of Cyrus look at what he's doing as well. Cyrus' mother covers his eyes as a joke and then talks with him. They go into the house. She feeds him food. Father McCormick returns and talks with his wife. Cyrus works with Joe on a sliding cutting bar. Cyrus talks with his parents. He continues to think. Cyrus and Joe look at a wood wheel (5:45-8:10). In a workshop, Cyrus uses wood and iron, Joe assists him. Cyrus cuts wood. Joe stokes a fire. Cyrus hammers hot iron on an anvil (8:11-9:35). Cyrus connects wood with Joe while his brothers sit around and watch. Cyrus explains to others how the device will work. A horse and buggy show up and people, like Cyrus' parents get in. A man rides horseback following the others. Feet walk across the ground. People showed up to see if this new invention would work. Cyrus' invention, the Reaper is to be tested. People ready to watch (9:36-12:34). Cyrus looks over his reaper. Joe stands near by. Cyrus rides a horse as Joe trails the reaper machine and another also assists the device. People exit the horse and buggy. Cyrus shows up with his reaper (12:35-14:58). Cyrus exits his horse. People gather around as Cyrus shows his strange looking machine. People stop and watch. Cyrus watches as it goes, it is actually reaping grain. Joe trails it and the crowd follows the machine. The grain gets cut. People watch. Although clumsy, it works (14:59-17:05). People trail as Joe assist the machine. The machine is brought to a stop and the crowd gathers around to look at it. Some people start to leave, some are impressed. Cyrus' machine worked. McCormick's father congratulates him. People walk in a horse and wagon (17:06-18:51). Cyrus works his reaper, he kept adding to it for over ten years. The reaper cuts grain and has a seat for the raker. A self raking reaper was next. Marsh harvester was next with two men tying the grain by hand. A self binder was next. A twine binder was made to protect the cattle. A tractor binder soon followed (18:52-21:15). The latest and greatest is the harvester thresher, the great grandchild of the original reaper machine. The thresher cuts, thresh's and cleans. A different type of International Harvester harvest thresher moves through field. A larger machine current day. A harvest thresher cuts through crops (21:16-23:31) End credits (23:32-23:42).
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Equally amazing was Cyrus's business sense to produce, market and sell this productivity marvel. This included letting farmers pay over time and moving to the sleepy town of Chicago. Bread became affordable to nearly everyone for the first time ever.
Nice!! Incredible story... :-)
Makes me think about the inventor of anaesthetics for surgery. It costed him a lifetime opium addiction from too many self-experiments but he succeeded, while his contemporaries believed that the knife and pain were inseparable. Surgery was a nightmare back then, the skillful surgeon was the one who worked fast. If people didn't die from infection they went mad from the trauma induced from surgery without anaesthetic.
As some have noted, some of the footage used in this is from much later than 1937. It may be that during the depression era the basic storyline and dramatic footage was recorded and kept for later use.
Having grown up poor on a farm and forced to cobble up tools from scraps and wood, I can see the ingenuity at work here. I at least have the great benefit of having at least observed machinery in operation...I just could never afford it, so tried to imitate with what I could muster. Great video!
Imagine that there was no real barrier that prevented this from being developed two thousand years earlier! A blacksmith working with iron and wood, designing a machine to br drawn by a horse.
I wonder how much of that origin story is accurate? I liked the showcase of the other farming machines at the end.
Very real some of the family members (offspring) still live in area
@@o1badmofo763 Okay cool! I wanted to believe it, but I couldn't just take it at face value since it was an industrial promotional video.
It’s very nice country if you ever get a chance to see it
The black "assistant:" was a slave. I don't think he was ever freed, although he was well treated for his significant contribution to the story.
Alternate title; "Don't fear the Reaper!"
I remember when the great company International Harvester DIED.. right around 1980 when they robbed their employees of their pensions.
They have a long history of abusing employees. The great Haymarket Massacre/ Incident /Riot of 1886 was inspired by the Mccormick Reaper Company's refusal to let workers only work 8-hour days. They demanded their workers work over ten hours a day, six days a week, for $1.50 per day.
Unless this film has been revised from an earlier film the "IH" logo that is in the title wasn't created until 1945. A lot of the equipment that is shown at the end is probably from 1940 or later but if it has the newer "IH McCormick" logo it is from 1945 or newer.
Cant be 1937. The letter series farmall's didn't come out until 1939.
If U think about it alot of time lines just dont add up talking about McCormack makeing a farming tool when they already had steam powered tractors...
Democrats were they
No