Give Us the Earth!

19471947
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21m

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This "Theater of Life" documentary was produced in cooperation with the International Committee, YMCA. It focuses on the work of Dr. Spencer Hatch, as he shows residents of small Mexican vil... Read allThis "Theater of Life" documentary was produced in cooperation with the International Committee, YMCA. It focuses on the work of Dr. Spencer Hatch, as he shows residents of small Mexican villages how to make their land better able to grow food and make them more independent.This "Theater of Life" documentary was produced in cooperation with the International Committee, YMCA. It focuses on the work of Dr. Spencer Hatch, as he shows residents of small Mexican villages how to make their land better able to grow food and make them more independent.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

Trivia
Using a blackboard, Hatch shows a world population of 2.2 billion people. That was a good estimate of the 1947 population (though the UN estimates are 2.3 billion in 1940 and 2.5 billion in 1950). As of 2022, the world population is over 7.8 billion.

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Spencer Hatch: Now, new abundance in the land; new confidence in the future. Less money in his pocket than his city cousins, but when his fields are full, more security, and no worries about the plant shutting down or getting too old for the job.

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Spencer Hatch narrates and plays himself as a YMCA advisor helping some Mexican peons get better crops off their land by rotating crops and using contour plowing.

It's one of the THEATER OF LIFE shorts directed by Gunther von Fritsch, and like most of the, it's shot wild with a narration that tells you what's going on. Carlos Carbajal is in charge of the camera, although von Fritsch seems to have shot a few scenes; it's a handsome effort and well deserves its Oscar nomination.

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