Modern Trends in Swine Production-1961

courtesy Prelinger Archives

The pastures and bigger lots seen later in the film are closer to what I remember. Some of the sights and all of the sounds match recollection.

Esp. the muted grunts and slamming feeder lids in this section and this one.

And the US Steel logo that appears is very familiar.

Film link and thumbnails at the Internet Archive . . .

last fall's unseen Flickr

I posted a lot of pictures from Virginia last fall, but I didn't get around to these.

outstanding in their fields

Moving to the audio portion of our program, here's a snippet of a recording I made of some birds and one somewhat faraway cow.



A couple of days later, in the evening after a drenching downpour flooded my mom's backyard & the surrounding fields, many frogs near & far were serenading anyone who'd listen. In this next recording, there were also fireworks booming from towards the James River (maybe part of the Jamestown 400th Anniversary celebration?) some 10 or 15 miles away. Later on, dogs joins the choir.



Meanwhile, field recordists are picking up cool sounds from all over. Like Quiet American's collection of short soundscapes called one minute vacation.

faraway cows

Okay, sure--these cows do seem kinda close.

But I was alluding to a song my friend Dale Kutyna wrote some years back. It's a slow gliding kind of thing entitled, well, "Faraway Cows". Pretty & mysterious in a majestic way, like these cows.