I came across this in my 40′s movies marathon. It’s a 1942 short film that teaches American farmers how to grow hemp, to help the war effort. There are so many things right about this: Getting a contemporary closeup view of a single cog in the war machine of World War 2. The nerdy pleasure of seeing every stage of the process from plant to rope. The machines – oh, the beautiful machines. It always thrills me to see what machines can do without computer technology.

And then there’s this brief image: