This episode of John Nesbitt's THE PASSING PARADE series for MGM talks about the weather, and about the people who try to do something about it. It shows how various weather agencies monitor, analyze wind, temperature and other aspects to spread them to people whose livelihoods are dependent on them. In this case, it's "John the Farmer" who needs to know there's a flood coming, so he can prepare for it.
It's more like a Public Service Announcement than the usual short about some forgotten real individual or institution that John Nesbitt's plain-spoken shorts usually concerned themselves with. I believe that this would be explained away as showing the forgotten men and women who serve the world through their work for weather bureaus. Except we don't see any of them as individuals.
It's more like a Public Service Announcement than the usual short about some forgotten real individual or institution that John Nesbitt's plain-spoken shorts usually concerned themselves with. I believe that this would be explained away as showing the forgotten men and women who serve the world through their work for weather bureaus. Except we don't see any of them as individuals.