- Hemp for Victory
Infobox_Film
name = Hemp For Victory
imdb_id = 0367837
writer =Brittain B. Robinson
starring =Lee D. Vickers (Narrator )
director =Raymond Evans
producer =U.S. Department of Agriculture
distributor =
released =1942
runtime = 16 minutes
language = English
budget =
music =Reuben Ford (Monaural )
awards =
tagline ="Hemp for Victory" is a
black-and-white United States government film made during theSecond World War , explaining the uses ofhemp , encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible.History
The film was made to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort because the United States was facing a hemp shortage. The intended audience was probably corn farmers in Kentucky, since the narrator emphasizes that land used to grow corn could also grow hemp, and a segment from the song "
My Old Kentucky Home " can be heard on the soundtrack. The film shows a history of hemp and hemp products, how hemp is grown, and how hemp processed intorope ,cloth ,cordage and other products.As it was made by the US Government, it is
public domain and is freely available for download on theInternet .Before
1989 , the film was relatively unknown, and theUnited States Department of Agriculture library and theLibrary of Congress told all interested parties that no such movie was made by the USDA or any branch of the U.S. government. TwoVHS copies were recovered and donated to the Library of Congress onMay 19 ,1989 byMaria Farrow ,Carl Packard , andJack Herer .The only known copy, at the time 1976, was a 3/4" broadcast quality copy of the film that was originally obtained by William Conde in 1976 from a reporter for the Miami Herald and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church of Jamaica. It was given in trust that it would be made available to as many as possible. It was put into the hands of Jack Herer by William Conde during the 1984 OMI (Oregon Marijuana Initiative). The film 20 years later is now available anywhere through the internet.
Book
Hemp for Victory is also the title of a book about hemp, published 2006 in London by Whitaker Press (ISBN 0-9549939-0-X). It is the work of several authors active in the hemp world, including Kenyon Gibson, Nick and Cindy Mackintosh, Woody Harrelson, Mina Hegaard and Sam Heslop.
=ee also
*"Reefer Madness"
*The Emperor Wears No Clothes
*United States home front during World War II References
* [http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/marijuana/hfv_ref.html Hemp For Victory - Coverup by Jack Herer]
External links
*imdb title|id=0367837|title=Hemp for Victory
*google video|-117344919147932597|Hemp for Victory
*youtube|Ne9UF-pFhJY|Hemp for Victory
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Hemp_for_victory_1942_FIXED Download "Hemp For Victory"] from theInternet Archive
* [http://www.hempmuseum.org/SUBROOMS/HEMP%20FOR%20VICTORY.htm Transcript of Hemp for Victory]
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