“ PAGEANT OF PROGRESS “ J.I. CASE THRESHING MACHINE CO. 1948 WISCONSIN CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 91894

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color educational film produced by the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company in conjunction with the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition of 1948 celebrates “50 centuries of farming” with a survey of modern agricultural technologies and innovations (TRT 21:04). Closeup on a blue ribbon award from the ASAE committee on extension (0:08). Opening titles (0:17). A J.I. Case Co. exhibition pavilion from the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Signs proclaim: “The March of Machines” and “5000 Years of Plowing” (0:57). Midwestern visitors fill bleachers in the summertime (1:03). An announcer in sunglasses stands before a microphone underneath a Case-branded umbrella. A brass band plays in red bandanas and blue overalls (1:20). Title card: “Parade of Plows.” A dramatic title scroll invokes the struggles of early man (1:42). Surrounded by crowds of exposition onlookers, two cost