WEBVTT 00:01.233 --> 00:03.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - This is a production of SDPD. 00:14.100 --> 00:15.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I keep thinking that these people 00:17.200 --> 00:19.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that are on the screen like they were last night, are 00:19.500 --> 00:22.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that old timers just coming back to check on us. 00:24.600 --> 00:28.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Just seems like they were here and this was their town 00:28.700 --> 00:30.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they were taking good care of it. 00:31.766 --> 00:36.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - The 1930s, the depression, the drought, 00:36.233 --> 00:39.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% no money, no crops, no jobs, 00:40.900 --> 00:42.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% but people survived. 00:42.933 --> 00:45.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Many moved away from their hometown seeking greener 00:45.333 --> 00:48.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% pastures, but many more stayed. 00:51.066 --> 00:54.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They kept believing things would get better. 00:54.000 --> 00:55.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% In Britain, South Dakota, 00:55.466 --> 00:59.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% probably a typical hometown in these United States. 00:59.000 --> 01:00.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% People didn't allow the Great Depression 01:00.966 --> 01:03.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% or anything else to get them down. 01:03.700 --> 01:05.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% In fact, an enterprising theater owner 01:05.900 --> 01:08.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and his faithful projectionist decided to make movies 01:08.500 --> 01:12.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of their hometown and of the people that stayed behind 01:28.100 --> 01:31.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% over 50 years ago, these films were first seen 01:31.100 --> 01:32.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% by Britain's finest. 01:32.666 --> 01:34.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Since that time, people still seek greener 01:34.966 --> 01:36.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% pastures elsewhere. 01:36.200 --> 01:38.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Crop prices are still low, 01:38.500 --> 01:41.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but people continue to dream, hope 01:41.033 --> 01:44.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and thrive in their hometown of 1500 citizens, 01:44.800 --> 01:47.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% one longtime resident and the maker of these films. 01:47.333 --> 01:50.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Ivan Bessie was a projectionist at Britain's Strand Theater 01:50.900 --> 01:52.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% for 67 years. 01:54.000 --> 01:58.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Strand was started with, the grand opening was in 1915. 01:59.166 --> 02:01.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It was built by Claude Baker 02:03.133 --> 02:06.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% who had a theater down the street about a block called 02:06.166 --> 02:07.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The Old Dreamland. 02:07.900 --> 02:11.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It was a frame building and he built this new one. 02:11.100 --> 02:15.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The Strand by, oh, started in the 14, 02:15.200 --> 02:16.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I suppose, during the war. 02:17.300 --> 02:19.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And I went into it, 02:20.666 --> 02:22.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% it'd been going about four years, 02:22.400 --> 02:24.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I guess when I got my first job there, 02:24.766 --> 02:27.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we were going broke as that plane. 02:29.100 --> 02:33.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It was during National Depression, depression all over. 02:33.766 --> 02:35.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then we had a little rougher 02:35.233 --> 02:38.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because we had no crop, we had no rain for two years. 02:38.066 --> 02:41.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% It was just drying a bone. Everything was, wasn't even grass 02:42.766 --> 02:46.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we had to close down part-time. 02:46.200 --> 02:49.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And we heard about it full of it. Ran an outfit like this. 02:49.933 --> 02:52.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So we went to see him to visit with him 02:52.266 --> 02:54.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and he told that he'd get along pretty good with it. 02:55.833 --> 02:58.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% On the way home, the bus is a fly by the outfit. 02:58.233 --> 02:59.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I know you take of it. 03:01.100 --> 03:02.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And he says, I don't want nothing to do with it 03:02.233 --> 03:03.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I dunno anything about it anyway. 03:03.833 --> 03:05.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I said, sure I would. 03:07.166 --> 03:11.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Otherwise, we'd have cut out part of the business 03:11.400 --> 03:14.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I'd have cut out part of my salary. 03:14.300 --> 03:16.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% So that's how we got started on it. 03:17.333 --> 03:20.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I never took pictures before of any kind. 03:20.000 --> 03:21.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I wasn't a camera bug 03:21.766 --> 03:24.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or anything like that, so I just went out 03:24.633 --> 03:26.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and took a guess at it. 03:26.266 --> 03:30.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I was lucky I kept the sun where it should be 03:30.533 --> 03:31.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that type of thing. 03:32.900 --> 03:35.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And it was a gimmick just 03:35.466 --> 03:38.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to get more people into theater. And that was all 03:38.433 --> 03:42.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - From 1938 to 1940, Ivan Bessie filmed everyone 03:42.700 --> 03:44.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and everything in Britain. 03:44.500 --> 03:46.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Anything of social or personal significance? 03:46.933 --> 03:49.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Ivan shot on 16 millimeter film 03:49.500 --> 03:52.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then would narrate the final unedited version 03:52.266 --> 03:55.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% before the Tuesday and Wednesday night movie at The Strand. 03:55.800 --> 03:58.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% After working at the theater for over 30 years, 03:58.433 --> 04:00.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Ivan finally bought the strand of the 1950s. 04:00.966 --> 04:04.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He owned and operated the Grand place until 1987, 04:04.866 --> 04:06.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% at which time he finally sold the 04:06.300 --> 04:08.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% theater and everything in it. 04:08.500 --> 04:09.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - It was sold here at Britain. 04:09.566 --> 04:11.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We had a, an auction sale 04:12.866 --> 04:15.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we had a great big box of the film 04:15.400 --> 04:20.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and it was no good to anybody that we know of, you know, 04:20.133 --> 04:23.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and somebody bought it for 50 cents, the whole box, 04:23.933 --> 04:28.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and then somebody in Texas 04:28.200 --> 04:31.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and then it found its way into Rick's possession 04:31.733 --> 04:33.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and he's revamped it. 04:33.966 --> 04:36.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And now it's a wonderful piece of work. 04:38.833 --> 04:40.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Most of our images of the thirties, 04:40.900 --> 04:43.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% especially the depression, turn out to be cliches. 04:43.600 --> 04:46.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We remember the dust ball, we remember bread lines 04:46.600 --> 04:48.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or the Hindenburg being blown up. 04:48.600 --> 04:50.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% These are a lot more real. 04:50.066 --> 04:52.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% These are ordinary people going about their 04:52.600 --> 04:54.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% everyday activities. 04:54.433 --> 04:56.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% There's some ceremony and ritual, 04:56.800 --> 04:59.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but most of the time it's just ordinary life on Main Street. 04:59.233 --> 05:00.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% That's pretty important. 05:01.766 --> 05:06.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Body language fashions, people's relation to the camera, all 05:06.366 --> 05:07.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of that is kind of unusual 05:07.733 --> 05:10.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it's documented in such detail. 05:10.200 --> 05:11.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Then I think these are pretty special. 05:13.033 --> 05:15.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I heard about it from friends who know that I, you know, 05:15.566 --> 05:17.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they're in New York, they read the New Yorker 05:17.133 --> 05:19.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they know I'm from Britain, South Dakota, 05:19.066 --> 05:21.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and they read the line that says the films have been filmed 05:21.300 --> 05:22.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% in Britain, South Dakota. 05:22.566 --> 05:26.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so I did my research to find the article 05:26.066 --> 05:27.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then ultimately looked for to 05:27.566 --> 05:29.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for Rick Prelinger in New York. 05:29.200 --> 05:30.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And that's where I found him 05:30.966 --> 05:32.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - In May of 1991. 05:32.800 --> 05:36.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The films made their second debut at The Strand Theater. 05:36.166 --> 05:38.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Ivan Bessie, again narrated the films just 05:38.900 --> 05:40.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as he did 50 years 05:40.166 --> 05:43.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% before people yelled out names, delighted 05:43.033 --> 05:44.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to see their family, friends, 05:44.500 --> 05:46.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and neighbors as they once were. 05:46.066 --> 05:48.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 50 years ago, not only did the two 05:48.633 --> 05:51.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and a half hours worth of films bring back memories, 05:51.766 --> 05:53.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but also a renewed hometown. 05:53.833 --> 05:54.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Pride 05:57.066 --> 05:58.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Britain is where the west begins 06:00.966 --> 06:03.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% as you go from Britain West. 06:03.500 --> 06:04.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Why people are more, 06:08.000 --> 06:10.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I would say, friendly, open 06:11.566 --> 06:13.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% as you go east from Britain. 06:13.366 --> 06:15.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Why? Then they begin to be more, 06:18.300 --> 06:20.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't know exactly how to describe it, 06:20.000 --> 06:22.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but they, they, they kind of mind their own business and, 06:22.233 --> 06:24.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and, and don't worry about somebody else. 06:25.633 --> 06:27.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well, let's see, I, I suppose Britain's typical 06:27.966 --> 06:30.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of most small towns in South Dakota, 06:30.366 --> 06:31.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but we think we're special. 06:31.866 --> 06:35.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Of course, we had a panel in Britain not too long ago 06:35.600 --> 06:37.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that were interviewing people and 06:37.800 --> 06:39.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% after they finished about Britain 06:39.466 --> 06:40.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and what they liked about Britain. 06:40.933 --> 06:42.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And I said, well, what did you think of what we said? 06:42.800 --> 06:44.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And she said, why do you all apologize 06:44.600 --> 06:45.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for liking to live here? 06:45.766 --> 06:47.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% She felt that we were apologizing. 06:49.500 --> 06:51.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - These are the people on Main Street of Britain, 06:54.033 --> 06:56.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% farmers, laborers, 06:57.833 --> 07:00.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% townspeople gathering on the street wondering what's 07:00.900 --> 07:02.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% going to happen next. 07:02.366 --> 07:05.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Here comes a Za Carter Za was quite a 07:05.233 --> 07:07.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% character in her own way. 07:07.066 --> 07:10.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% She ran a dress shop in the cleanest place in town 07:10.966 --> 07:14.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because every time you come to her door, she would stop you. 07:14.866 --> 07:17.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% You'd take off your shoes before you came into her shop. 07:18.566 --> 07:20.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% She never had to worry about scrubbing. 07:20.666 --> 07:23.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - And it really allows you, you see people come in again 07:23.233 --> 07:26.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and again and you see the same buildings and places appear 07:26.333 --> 07:28.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you really, you're not just a quick hit 07:28.333 --> 07:31.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and run view, you just get a, you get an excellent chance to 07:32.666 --> 07:35.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% get kind of deeply into the life of a community. 07:38.333 --> 07:41.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I think this is a shot in front of the strand. 07:42.266 --> 07:44.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We advertised that all kitties would 07:44.700 --> 07:46.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% have the picture taken if they'd come 07:46.833 --> 07:48.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to the theater on a certain day. 07:49.766 --> 07:51.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% You'll notice that most of 'em are pretty well shined 07:51.500 --> 07:53.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and polished and ready. 07:55.566 --> 07:59.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Some of them would just stand and realize it was a movie. 07:59.900 --> 08:01.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So we had to tell 'em to move. 08:01.333 --> 08:05.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But the little Tads, they just were in wonderment. 08:05.366 --> 08:10.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The dog had to get into the act. How hard was it? 08:12.300 --> 08:14.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Oh, so hard. You won't believe it if I tell you 08:17.266 --> 08:19.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - To the book, it sharp. 08:19.166 --> 08:21.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I lost all my money 08:21.033 --> 08:23.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and now I have love this 08:23.233 --> 08:27.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% hard boy boy. 08:27.233 --> 08:30.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Hard when you down. Mad up. 08:36.000 --> 08:40.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - Everybody was broke. Dust blues. 08:40.500 --> 08:43.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You had the lamp lit all day long order. 08:43.700 --> 08:48.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Did you see what you Well the folks were in Britain 08:48.033 --> 08:50.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they didn't get home with the car 08:50.100 --> 08:51.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 'cause they couldn't see the drive. 08:52.800 --> 08:55.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So they stopped out at the edge of the hills out here. 08:55.866 --> 08:58.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Free bull place. Remember that? 08:58.900 --> 09:01.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We had the lamp lit in the house all the time. Oh yeah. 09:02.433 --> 09:06.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Afternoon. So no, it was 09:06.766 --> 09:08.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Bad. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And all the first couple of weeks out 09:11.666 --> 09:14.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I was a little backward about walking up, 09:14.300 --> 09:16.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% sticking in somebody's face, you know, that type of thing. 09:16.766 --> 09:20.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But after the first month it got to be kind of fun. 09:20.266 --> 09:25.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I enjoyed it. And we'd run one, one rail, 09:25.200 --> 09:28.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which was 10 minutes, a hundred feet. 09:29.200 --> 09:31.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we'd run that on a Tuesday Wednesday 09:31.800 --> 09:34.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the next Tuesday, Wednesday we'd run another reel. 09:34.233 --> 09:38.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It might be part of school activities with a few people on, 09:39.200 --> 09:41.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% on the main street and thrown in. 09:41.633 --> 09:43.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I'd take pictures any place I was, 09:43.500 --> 09:47.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% any place I could see something And we didn't amp 09:47.333 --> 09:50.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% so we might have a snowstorm 09:50.900 --> 09:52.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and next time they run 09:52.166 --> 09:54.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% around short sleeves or something like that. 09:54.766 --> 09:56.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There wasn't much rhyme or reason, 09:56.300 --> 09:58.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% but what we were trying to do is get 09:58.900 --> 10:03.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% the people on the street to get 'em to come in the theater 10:03.300 --> 10:06.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and see themselves on the big silver screen. 10:06.133 --> 10:08.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That was the main thing that worked. Worked good. 10:09.666 --> 10:14.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - We drove the Model T without a heater 10:14.200 --> 10:15.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and side curtains on. 10:15.966 --> 10:19.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And by the time we got to Britain around the, well, 10:19.500 --> 10:23.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I guess it was probably gravel, but it sure wasn't oiled. 10:23.866 --> 10:27.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But we had 14 miles to town and by the time you got there 10:27.866 --> 10:30.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and that modeled tee used to froze up in the winter time 10:30.300 --> 10:34.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that we jumped in on the furnace in the JCPenney 10:36.866 --> 10:39.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% building, they had one 10:39.366 --> 10:42.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of those square furnaces in the floor holding the floor 10:42.033 --> 10:46.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% with all the heat come up, you know, to get thawed out. 10:46.733 --> 10:48.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% June, our feet were just like ice. We got there. 10:51.233 --> 10:54.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Britain is located on the north south continental divide 10:54.533 --> 10:57.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I think I'd forgotten from my grade school geography 10:57.966 --> 10:59.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% that there was a north south divide. 10:59.266 --> 11:00.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We always hear about the east and west, 11:00.766 --> 11:02.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% but where you're standing here in front 11:02.566 --> 11:05.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of my home on Main Street, the water flows to Hudson Bay 11:05.866 --> 11:07.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and if you're on the south end of Main Street, 11:07.533 --> 11:09.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% it goes down to the Gulf of Mexico. 11:09.133 --> 11:10.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I think that's a very interesting fact. 11:14.533 --> 11:17.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - These are just shots of some of our local fellows sitting 11:17.300 --> 11:20.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% around visiting, having a cigarette. 11:21.800 --> 11:23.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Watch this guy on the right, 11:24.600 --> 11:27.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he gets the light from the guy on the left. 11:27.233 --> 11:29.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Then he puts his box of matches in his own pocket, 11:29.833 --> 11:30.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he never gets it back. 11:34.666 --> 11:35.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I always liked that scene. 11:39.500 --> 11:42.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - They accused me first of being the sewer mayor 11:42.333 --> 11:44.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I worked so hard 11:44.133 --> 11:46.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to get a sewer project on the south side of town. 11:46.200 --> 11:47.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But I said, if you've ever answered the phone 11:47.900 --> 11:50.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and had somebody tell you the sewer is overflowing in your 11:50.133 --> 11:52.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% basement and the anguish in their tone, 11:52.533 --> 11:54.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% you know how important it is. 11:54.533 --> 11:56.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I was born in this house 11:56.633 --> 12:01.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - In 1919 and I've lived here ever since we were married. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I think we moved in here in 1946. 12:05.433 --> 12:07.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - Then they said I'm the parks mayor 12:07.000 --> 12:10.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I'm very, very interested in the parks. 12:10.066 --> 12:12.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We've bought some land across the street here 12:12.200 --> 12:15.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that we've added to our park and we have a new tennis court 12:15.666 --> 12:18.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and we have a new park on the north, on the south side 12:18.100 --> 12:19.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of town where there were lots 12:19.600 --> 12:21.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% of children that they didn't have any. 12:23.366 --> 12:24.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - This is a good sign of spring. 12:24.966 --> 12:28.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I see a bunch of boys around in a circle 12:28.300 --> 12:31.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with a marbles on the ground, shooting marbles. 12:33.033 --> 12:34.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Every kid would start out with 12:34.466 --> 12:38.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% so many marbles in his pocket and night he'd go home. 12:40.066 --> 12:42.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He might have a bigger pocket full or he may not have any. 12:43.633 --> 12:45.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That was the kid's way of gambling 12:45.433 --> 12:47.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it was, it was a sure sign of spring 12:47.900 --> 12:49.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they'd start the bank in a big circle 12:50.866 --> 12:52.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and get out on their haunches and play markets. 12:56.566 --> 12:58.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - How long have you lived in Britain? 12:58.433 --> 13:01.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - 77 years. - Were you born here? 13:01.700 --> 13:04.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Born here, right up the end of this street. 13:05.033 --> 13:06.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Six blocks up the street. 13:07.866 --> 13:09.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I suppose the most important thing to a city, right 13:09.666 --> 13:12.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to our city right now is the water supply. 13:12.400 --> 13:14.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The EPA regulations are getting tougher 13:14.233 --> 13:16.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and tougher about what we have to have. 13:16.300 --> 13:19.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And our water plant is 25 years old and needs renovation. 13:22.133 --> 13:26.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Ladies coming down the street, all in dresses. 13:27.200 --> 13:29.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You very seldom see a lady in slacks. 13:29.633 --> 13:31.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% In fact, I don't think they knew 13:31.000 --> 13:32.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% what slacks were in those days. 13:34.000 --> 13:38.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Even the little girls are dressed in dresses. 13:38.033 --> 13:40.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Men usually have hats. 13:40.300 --> 13:41.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Ladies almost always do 13:43.000 --> 13:44.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% fully dressed when they hit Main Street. 13:46.900 --> 13:51.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The house was bought by my mother in 19 five 13:51.266 --> 13:53.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% before she was even married. 13:53.500 --> 13:55.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% She was a school teacher then 13:55.100 --> 13:58.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and she was later county superintendent of the schools. 13:58.766 --> 14:02.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And she bought it in 19 five at a price of $800. 14:04.033 --> 14:06.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - And of course everybody laughs 14:06.100 --> 14:10.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but dogs are a problem in every city and they are here. 14:10.833 --> 14:13.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% People call about dogs running loose or dogs 14:13.500 --> 14:16.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and we have a a problem about that, that's a little thing 14:16.600 --> 14:18.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but an aggravating thing. 14:18.400 --> 14:20.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - They did have dogs around. 14:20.033 --> 14:24.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Every guy had a dog and they'd tag them around town 14:24.600 --> 14:25.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and never pay any attention, 14:25.933 --> 14:28.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% never had any problems that I knew of. 14:29.833 --> 14:33.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And now of course you've got, you've gotta have shots, 14:33.500 --> 14:36.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% they gotta have a collar, you gotta have a license 14:36.800 --> 14:39.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% besides that, you gotta have a string on 'em. 14:39.333 --> 14:41.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So, so long, you know. 14:42.866 --> 14:44.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But there were a lot of dogs. 14:45.566 --> 14:47.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Kids had 'em and grownups had 'em as well. 14:51.100 --> 14:52.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Part of the growing up. 14:54.700 --> 14:57.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - It was a good place to make a living and raise a family 14:58.700 --> 15:00.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and we enjoyed it here. 15:00.933 --> 15:05.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We've been many places and we always like to come back 15:05.366 --> 15:07.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and think this is the best place you can find. 15:08.966 --> 15:11.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I think there, there have been a number of people 15:11.100 --> 15:13.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% who have moved back here just to get away from the traffic 15:13.533 --> 15:14.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% of cities and so 15:14.966 --> 15:15.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Forth. 15:15.966 --> 15:17.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Especially when you get older. 15:17.366 --> 15:21.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% When I was talking about moving out here, my two cousins 15:21.833 --> 15:25.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% who live here were visiting me in Minneapolis. 15:25.366 --> 15:26.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And one said to the other, well 15:26.766 --> 15:29.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% what will Bertha do when she goes to to Britain now? 15:29.833 --> 15:31.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% What was she, how does she occupy her time? 15:31.733 --> 15:33.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And the other one said, well there's church that'll 15:33.933 --> 15:35.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% take six days a week. 15:35.500 --> 15:37.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% All she needs to worry about is what to do on the seventh. 15:37.466 --> 15:39.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And with all due respect to my good church, 15:39.466 --> 15:40.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that's a little bit true. 15:51.266 --> 15:53.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Well everyone should have just a little bit 15:53.566 --> 15:56.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of discipline in their life, even if they're retired. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I do have exercise class at 10 o'clock on 15:59.766 --> 16:01.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 16:01.133 --> 16:03.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I try to attend quite faithfully. 16:06.133 --> 16:08.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Well one, I think it's a very comfortable, 16:08.166 --> 16:09.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% easy place to live. 16:09.833 --> 16:12.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it's a place where I have many memories 16:12.166 --> 16:15.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and good associations from my childhood and high school 16:15.366 --> 16:17.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and even into college days. 16:17.400 --> 16:18.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The people are friendly 16:18.700 --> 16:22.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I guess I just like, I'm a small town girl. 16:22.366 --> 16:23.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Maybe that's it. 16:25.800 --> 16:27.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Our town was a good town. 16:28.400 --> 16:29.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% There were good people in it 16:29.800 --> 16:33.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and workers, they had to be to compete 16:33.933 --> 16:35.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% with the other small towns around. 16:37.233 --> 16:41.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It was the county seat and the largest town in the group 16:41.100 --> 16:42.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% or in within our county. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - As in most counties, 16:46.500 --> 16:49.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% agriculture's the main industry in Marshall County raising 16:49.966 --> 16:53.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% crops and livestock have historically maintained counties 16:53.066 --> 16:55.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and small towns throughout our history. 16:55.800 --> 16:58.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Family farms and livestock operations continue 16:58.700 --> 16:59.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to maintain Britain 17:00.966 --> 17:02.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% - Since 1935. 17:02.333 --> 17:03.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We lived on this place. 17:03.833 --> 17:08.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% My brother and I started batching here in 1935 17:09.433 --> 17:11.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we batched till in 1939. 17:11.900 --> 17:16.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I got married and he was trucking at that time. 17:18.233 --> 17:20.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And then he went to the army in 42 17:22.033 --> 17:23.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and was there until 46. 17:25.466 --> 17:29.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So and later on then he 17:29.400 --> 17:30.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% moved to Minnesota. 17:30.900 --> 17:34.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% That was in 49. Yeah. And he is been there ever since. 17:34.100 --> 17:37.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So I've been here alone or that is run the place since. 17:37.900 --> 17:40.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Since then. Farming in the thirties was all horses. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The early thirties at least the later thirties. 17:44.066 --> 17:48.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% They got some, yeah, they got some tractors I don't think, 17:49.833 --> 17:54.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I don't think we had a tractor in in Yeah, we did too. 17:54.033 --> 17:57.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Can't tell you now. We had a cross, cross motor case. 17:58.866 --> 18:01.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I believe it was the first plow tractor we ever had. 18:03.266 --> 18:05.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And that would be in the thirties though, right? 18:06.700 --> 18:10.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I think the sig, single largest industry in Marshall 18:10.733 --> 18:12.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% County, of course is raising cattle. 18:12.233 --> 18:14.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We have some of the best cattle in the United States right 18:14.400 --> 18:16.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% here in Marshall County and we're very proud of that. 18:16.900 --> 18:18.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I think they figured a couple 18:18.966 --> 18:20.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of years ago there were $50 million worth 18:20.833 --> 18:22.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of cattle sold in Marshall County. 18:23.533 --> 18:26.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The sale barn is a big part of our economy too. 18:26.766 --> 18:28.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% When the sail barn was closed 18:28.033 --> 18:30.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it was for about a year and a half. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And when it was reopened, it was great rejoicing, not only 18:32.333 --> 18:34.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% among the farmers but among the people in Britain. 18:35.700 --> 18:37.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well if I'm supposed to describe the soil in this area, 18:37.766 --> 18:40.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I'll say some of the best in the United States, 18:40.500 --> 18:43.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but we haven't got the climate to go with it. 18:55.633 --> 18:57.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And they fired the shotguns. It was time to go. 18:59.066 --> 19:00.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And they had the wagons would go down a row 19:00.900 --> 19:05.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and each farmer would pick as much corn 19:05.100 --> 19:06.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% as he could and give him time. 19:07.633 --> 19:08.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And they were all shooting for the big 19:08.833 --> 19:10.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% prize because it was big. 19:10.400 --> 19:13.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And the guy that won was prized was $3. 19:14.800 --> 19:16.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And they worked hard to get that $3. 19:16.633 --> 19:20.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It $3 50 years ago was a lot of money. 19:23.233 --> 19:26.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well I, I did pretty well in the, in the state contest. 19:26.233 --> 19:27.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% So because I got right in the middle 19:27.866 --> 19:32.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and both my, my brother that you saw tonight, 19:34.200 --> 19:39.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% my older brother, he won the first corn picking contest we 19:39.000 --> 19:43.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% had in this county and then I won two after that. 19:44.966 --> 19:47.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Let's suppose there's a cornstalk here with an ear on it 19:47.400 --> 19:49.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you grab the ear with this hand and, 19:49.733 --> 19:51.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you rip the husk. 19:51.300 --> 19:53.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Your hook sits right in here somewhere. 19:53.500 --> 19:56.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% You rip the husk open with this hand 19:56.800 --> 20:00.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and then you pick the the ear out of the rest of the husk. 20:00.466 --> 20:02.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You kind of pull that back with the left hand 20:02.933 --> 20:05.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then you put the ear out of there in the wagon. 20:05.166 --> 20:06.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% That building, 20:34.000 --> 20:36.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% - Well everybody 20:36.633 --> 20:39.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that you've seeing in these pictures had someplace to go 20:39.800 --> 20:41.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and something to do each 20:41.133 --> 20:44.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of these in his own way had his own job 20:45.166 --> 20:47.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and he'd go about it, do his work. 20:49.500 --> 20:52.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't know that it's that much different except 20:52.566 --> 20:55.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that it's different in the way it's done. 20:55.633 --> 20:56.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It would probably take three 20:56.833 --> 21:00.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% or four men to handle the same job 21:00.633 --> 21:02.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% that one man will do. 21:02.400 --> 21:07.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Now there were no machines or equipment 21:08.233 --> 21:10.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or factories, no tractors 21:10.833 --> 21:13.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% or anything like that to work with. 21:13.166 --> 21:15.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It had to be straight hand. 21:26.866 --> 21:28.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Important industries, 21:28.400 --> 21:31.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% manufacturers primarily fan clutches for diesel trucks. 21:31.133 --> 21:34.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We refer to 'em as a class eight diesel truck. 21:34.066 --> 21:36.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Others may recognize it as the 18 wheeler 21:36.733 --> 21:37.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% that goes up and down the highway. 21:39.400 --> 21:42.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We probably generate now the a salary of about a million 21:42.766 --> 21:45.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and a half dollars per year coming into the community. 21:45.866 --> 21:48.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And we expect to continue to grow. 21:48.266 --> 21:50.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well I think Britain would have some very difficult, 21:50.833 --> 21:52.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% would've had some very difficult times if it weren't 21:52.866 --> 21:54.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for Horton's and for trust Pros. 21:54.833 --> 21:56.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Have you been out to Trust Pros? 21:56.633 --> 21:59.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - Trust Pros was incorporated in 1978 21:59.700 --> 22:03.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and we started in Britain and we're still here currently. 22:03.466 --> 22:08.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We have, I believe it's 28 total people working right now. 22:09.600 --> 22:12.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And in the summer 22:12.733 --> 22:15.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and fall of the year, we'll have 22:17.033 --> 22:20.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% sometimes 35 maybe up to 40 people that will be working. 22:35.300 --> 22:38.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I'm Jackman from the Jack Hammer, 22:41.500 --> 22:45.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Jack Jackman from the Jack Hammer on 22:46.900 --> 22:50.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the hammer down Jack. 22:53.633 --> 22:56.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - This is a WPA project. 22:56.566 --> 22:58.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It was a godsend back there 22:58.200 --> 23:00.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% because in the thirties, as I said, 23:00.833 --> 23:02.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% there was no work, no nothing. 23:03.700 --> 23:05.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So Uncle Sam stepped in, 23:05.200 --> 23:09.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he had the WPA projects and this is one of 'em. 23:09.266 --> 23:10.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They went out east of town 23:10.733 --> 23:15.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and built a dam, formed a lake 23:16.633 --> 23:18.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and it's a very good one now. 23:18.100 --> 23:22.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But these are the men, most of them are in town 23:22.233 --> 23:26.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that are working in town stores and that type of thing. 23:26.800 --> 23:29.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And they're all lined up with WPA 23:29.233 --> 23:31.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because that was the only thing that was, there was no work 23:32.833 --> 23:35.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% have the municipal pool was built 23:35.666 --> 23:40.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I think most of it was built back in the WPA days 23:40.166 --> 23:44.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then they put on the finishing doctors the 23:44.500 --> 23:45.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% city did afterwards. 23:47.100 --> 23:48.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's a wonderful place for the youngsters 23:48.733 --> 23:51.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to go in the summer and it's hot. 23:54.066 --> 23:56.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - One thing that intrigues me a great deal about the film is 23:56.666 --> 23:58.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% people's reaction to the camera. 23:59.966 --> 24:03.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Today, when people are are shot on video, they tend 24:03.566 --> 24:05.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to mug, they tend to wave. 24:05.800 --> 24:07.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% They're very actively involved. 24:07.766 --> 24:10.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% They recognize the camera, they kind of play along with it. 24:10.433 --> 24:12.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% In those days, just about everybody was embarrassed. 24:12.766 --> 24:15.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They hid, they didn't wanna look stupid. 24:15.200 --> 24:18.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it was, you know, very much an earlier sort 24:18.033 --> 24:21.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of age in the history of the media when people weren't 24:21.666 --> 24:24.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% so sure that they wanted their lives invaded. 24:24.100 --> 24:26.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So there's a real fun interplay like that. 24:26.333 --> 24:27.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I like Christmas a lot too. 24:34.100 --> 24:35.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - You better watch out. 24:35.533 --> 24:38.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You better not cry, you better not thought. 24:38.333 --> 24:42.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I'm telling you why, why Santa Claus is coming 24:42.266 --> 24:44.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to time Gather wrong. 24:45.566 --> 24:48.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He's making a list, checking it twice. 24:48.133 --> 24:51.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He's going to find out who's naughty and nice. 24:51.266 --> 24:54.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Santa Claus is coming to time. 24:56.266 --> 24:59.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - He's sees you when you are sleeping. 24:59.033 --> 25:01.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He knows when you are awake. 25:01.900 --> 25:06.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - He knows if you've been bad or good. So good goodness. 25:06.000 --> 25:09.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Goodness saying you better watch out out. 25:09.133 --> 25:12.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You better not cry. You better not fall new 25:18.966 --> 25:23.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - With little tin horns, little toy drums, Rudy Twos 25:23.000 --> 25:24.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and Ram Tum. 25:24.500 --> 25:27.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Santa Clause is coming to Tide 25:30.100 --> 25:34.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and curly head dolls Todd and cool elephant boat 25:34.200 --> 25:35.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and kitty cars too. 25:35.666 --> 25:37.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Santa Claus is 25:41.166 --> 25:45.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The kids and girls in Boyland will have a jubilee 25:46.766 --> 25:49.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that's gonna build a toy town all 25:49.633 --> 25:51.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% around the Christmas dream. 25:51.266 --> 25:53.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% You better watch out. 25:53.600 --> 25:56.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You better not cry, you better not pop. 25:56.566 --> 25:59.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'm telling you why Santa cause 25:59.566 --> 26:01.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Coming two times 26:04.100 --> 26:06.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the big events like Christmas capture the 26:06.233 --> 26:08.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% spirit of the community. 26:08.033 --> 26:10.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But many of the personal recollections of the films are 26:10.833 --> 26:12.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of little events. 26:12.200 --> 26:16.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Events that capture one life at a time. 26:16.133 --> 26:19.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I was washing windows at Herman Johnson's grocery store. 26:19.733 --> 26:24.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I remember seeing that one then out at the cemetery. 26:24.066 --> 26:28.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I think the Firing Squad probably was out there that 26:28.266 --> 26:32.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that day I suppose it was Memorial Day 26:32.000 --> 26:33.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and I was trying to get a picture 26:33.800 --> 26:36.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of Ivan Bessie when he was taking pictures. 26:38.500 --> 26:41.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - The ones of my sister of course brought it back a lot 26:41.300 --> 26:43.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of sentiment because she was a very special 26:43.633 --> 26:46.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% a down syndrome child and someone who was older than I. 26:46.566 --> 26:49.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But my closest playmate I suppose during my younger years 26:49.600 --> 26:51.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and someone who died when I was five years old. 26:53.400 --> 26:56.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Yeah, we were dressed up in our cowboy hats. 26:56.133 --> 26:59.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It was probably at a a homecoming parade 26:59.900 --> 27:03.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% or something when we used to bring our horses in our ponies 27:03.633 --> 27:04.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and ride in the parade. 27:06.266 --> 27:09.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well and then I'm like I told you, in the one on the horse 27:09.733 --> 27:11.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% hitting the parade on homecoming, 27:16.433 --> 27:19.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - We always had the parades with the bands. 27:20.766 --> 27:23.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% In fact we had a little band, school band. 27:23.300 --> 27:25.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It was a marching band. 27:25.133 --> 27:28.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We were on Main Street for every event that hit, no matter 27:28.333 --> 27:32.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% what it was, four H Club or the big game 27:32.000 --> 27:33.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% or anything. 27:33.800 --> 27:37.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But that band was there. It seemed to be a cooperation 27:37.400 --> 27:40.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% between the town and the school and the farmers 27:40.933 --> 27:43.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and all that. 27:43.200 --> 27:46.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We since have lost in these 50 years 27:48.866 --> 27:50.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% were wonderful times. 27:50.066 --> 27:51.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The town was wonderful. 27:51.200 --> 27:55.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The people were there are the 27:56.566 --> 27:58.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% parades and the vehicles that made the parades. 27:59.666 --> 28:02.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's odd to note the cars as they go along 28:03.900 --> 28:07.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% different makes different models. 28:07.433 --> 28:09.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And this was all 50 years ago. 28:11.433 --> 28:14.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% This is a parade in which everybody takes part. 28:16.566 --> 28:20.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Each merchant would have his own name on his car 28:20.100 --> 28:23.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or his truck and have it decorated up and ready to go. 28:25.600 --> 28:28.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we were out to beat Clark. 28:29.433 --> 28:33.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Clark was the enemy of that day, trying very hard 28:33.666 --> 28:36.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to beat them 50 years ago. 28:36.833 --> 28:38.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We were probably still trying to beat them. 28:38.633 --> 28:43.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Now the football game was a must. 28:43.500 --> 28:45.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Everybody turned out for that. 28:46.633 --> 28:50.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Our football team was about average. 28:50.100 --> 28:52.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They'd win and they'd lose, 28:54.366 --> 28:55.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% but they'd draw a crowd. 28:56.766 --> 28:58.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Of course in those days there wasn't 28:58.200 --> 29:00.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as much entertainment as there is now. 29:00.933 --> 29:05.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There was no tv, very few radios, anything of that type. 29:07.233 --> 29:09.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% So while it was left was the game 29:09.100 --> 29:10.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% or whatever was happening in the town, 29:12.366 --> 29:14.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but whatever was happening, everybody had a finger in it. 29:15.766 --> 29:18.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Athletics were an important part of our school 29:18.533 --> 29:19.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% or of our whole system. 29:21.333 --> 29:25.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Everybody turned out for football or basketball or track 29:25.866 --> 29:27.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or whatever the kids were doing. 29:28.200 --> 29:30.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% That was one of the big ways 29:30.833 --> 29:32.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of getting entertained in our town. 29:33.866 --> 29:37.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The field that there would play on back in those days 29:37.333 --> 29:39.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% was just over in somebody's backyard 29:39.866 --> 29:41.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or somebody's vacant lot. 29:42.633 --> 29:45.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we'd use 'em for our football field. 29:45.800 --> 29:48.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Same way with track or anything like that. 29:48.900 --> 29:51.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Didn't have any trouble getting them to pose for me. 29:54.866 --> 29:57.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I think it's mostly the boys that came back. 29:57.400 --> 29:59.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The girls went to college 29:59.533 --> 30:04.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and found a boy 30:04.333 --> 30:08.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or a job or something and didn't come back. 30:08.000 --> 30:12.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There's more of the old time men around that I knew 30:12.200 --> 30:14.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% than there are in the ladies. 30:15.333 --> 30:20.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's amazing. Back in those days is how 30:21.366 --> 30:24.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a couple would be together in high school. 30:26.533 --> 30:27.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% School day sweethearts. 30:28.933 --> 30:30.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And how many of 'em are married 30:30.233 --> 30:31.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and living here in Britain now? 30:31.366 --> 30:32.900 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Okay. 30:32.900 --> 30:37.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well he went in the service then in in 40, 41 30:37.466 --> 30:39.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that's when I went to college in 40. 30:39.866 --> 30:41.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And so I was gone too then. 30:41.566 --> 30:43.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then we got married in 42 30:43.466 --> 30:46.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and so we didn't return to Britain until 40 end of 45. 30:46.900 --> 30:49.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We were gone. Well when you have a family business is one 30:49.333 --> 30:51.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% thing that keeps him in town. 30:51.100 --> 30:53.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% You know, he came back and joined his brother in their store 30:53.966 --> 30:56.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and they were in business until two years ago. 30:56.233 --> 31:00.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - So I, I felt that when I came back to South Dakota 31:00.800 --> 31:03.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that I would probably get into electronics. 31:04.866 --> 31:08.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% At that time it was radio but television was just ahead. 31:08.766 --> 31:12.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We didn't get television here until 1953. 31:12.400 --> 31:15.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But I was prepared because I had gone to Chicago 31:15.433 --> 31:17.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and gone to a trade school and 31:17.433 --> 31:20.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and learned to repair televisions. 31:20.833 --> 31:24.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - We had so many more stores back in those days. 31:24.800 --> 31:26.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It seems we had three 31:26.900 --> 31:30.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or four blocks of business places where now 31:31.600 --> 31:33.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% two blocks handles it pretty well. 31:34.433 --> 31:35.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't know whether they work together 31:35.833 --> 31:37.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and consolidate or what they've done. 31:39.333 --> 31:42.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - We're standing in front of the former Downey Jewelry 31:42.200 --> 31:45.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and Radio, TV building. 31:45.133 --> 31:49.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% This is a building that my father built in 1919 31:49.066 --> 31:51.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for a jewelry store. 31:51.033 --> 31:56.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% He started in business in 19 six in Britain as a jeweler 31:56.000 --> 31:59.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and was in a another building prior to this time, 31:59.800 --> 32:01.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% a little farther down the street. 32:01.900 --> 32:06.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Then in 1919 he built this for a jewelry store. 32:07.466 --> 32:10.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Most of them, their husbands were gone 32:10.633 --> 32:14.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and had passed away 32:14.200 --> 32:16.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the women went on running a place. 32:16.600 --> 32:20.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We had the lady in the dress shop, a lady in insurance, 32:22.366 --> 32:24.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% another lady in the store just went by 32:25.833 --> 32:30.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and our stores were larger then than they are now. 32:32.666 --> 32:34.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Oh dry. 32:34.300 --> 32:37.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Good store for instance, man would own the place he 32:37.766 --> 32:39.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and his wife, but he'd have two 32:39.633 --> 32:41.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or three of the ladies working for him. 32:42.766 --> 32:45.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I had a heart attack in 89 32:45.800 --> 32:50.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and we had about decided then to have a closing out sale. 32:50.466 --> 32:55.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And we think maybe that this stress from getting ready 32:55.366 --> 32:56.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for this sale may have had something 32:56.900 --> 32:57.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to do with my heart attack. 33:01.300 --> 33:03.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Many people say life was simpler in the thirties. 33:03.966 --> 33:06.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There wasn't as much stress on people like there is today. 33:08.366 --> 33:10.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% People born since the films are made have grown up trying 33:10.100 --> 33:11.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to keep pace with the rest of the world. 33:12.900 --> 33:14.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% How has Britain changed? 33:14.933 --> 33:17.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% How are the children that are growing up today coping 33:17.433 --> 33:19.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% with this ever-changing world? 33:20.366 --> 33:22.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The Hair Hut is an in-home business run by mother 33:22.366 --> 33:24.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% of four Lana Shot. 33:24.700 --> 33:28.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I've lived here all my life. I'm 39 years old tomorrow. 33:28.266 --> 33:29.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% My grand grandparents lived here, 33:29.733 --> 33:31.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% my grandparents and my mother and dad. 33:34.200 --> 33:36.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - So it's really a family tradition to keep living here. 33:39.233 --> 33:41.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - My children I'm sure will not plan to stay here. 33:41.700 --> 33:43.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They're going off to college of course. 33:43.200 --> 33:47.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You know, my three have an 18-year-old, two 17 33:47.700 --> 33:49.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and Lacey will be seven in June. 33:51.300 --> 33:53.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And you don't think they'll stay in Britain? 33:53.133 --> 33:55.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - No one wants to be a pharmacist 33:55.966 --> 33:58.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and one wants to be into physical therapy 33:58.633 --> 33:59.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and one wants to be a teacher 34:01.100 --> 34:02.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I think they'll move to a bigger area. 34:03.733 --> 34:04.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I, I mean I like it. 34:04.933 --> 34:07.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Get closer, closer to your classmates 34:07.700 --> 34:10.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and you know everybody who's graduating in your class 34:10.833 --> 34:12.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and it's a lot special 34:12.233 --> 34:14.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% or a lot more special than you think it would be. 34:14.733 --> 34:16.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% 'cause I have realized it this year 34:16.000 --> 34:17.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 'cause I'm a senior and I'm gonna be graduating. 34:17.766 --> 34:22.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I love it. It's, it's it's, it's good to like be so happy 34:22.000 --> 34:25.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% with everybody that you're gonna graduate and I like it. 34:25.600 --> 34:27.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Now how many people are in your graduating class? 34:27.333 --> 34:30.400 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% - 37. - Someone called me 34:30.400 --> 34:33.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and asked me why Britain's population had gone down in the 34:33.566 --> 34:35.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% last, in this last census. 34:35.166 --> 34:38.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Because in the other years we've gone up just a few. 34:38.100 --> 34:40.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And this year we went down quite a few and I said 34:40.833 --> 34:43.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because of birth control and they didn't like that. 34:43.633 --> 34:46.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But when my youngest daughter graduated in 78, 34:46.700 --> 34:47.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there were 78 seniors 34:49.766 --> 34:52.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And that was the big crop we had. 34:52.366 --> 34:54.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We had more kids than anything in the world. 34:56.500 --> 34:57.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Didn't know how to keep from having them. 34:57.866 --> 35:00.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Probably as about half of it, 35:01.833 --> 35:03.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - There are only half as many kids. 35:03.100 --> 35:05.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We have as many adults as we've ever had. 35:05.366 --> 35:07.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's the families that are smaller. 35:07.600 --> 35:11.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I had six children and a lot of my friends had five 35:11.133 --> 35:12.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or six, four or five or six. 35:12.466 --> 35:14.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And now the young people have one or two children 35:14.500 --> 35:16.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and they're just, it's the young people that we're missing. 35:18.933 --> 35:21.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Weird. I mean that's strange 35:21.666 --> 35:23.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 'cause they had children so much more young 35:23.833 --> 35:25.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I mean I'm 18 35:25.366 --> 35:28.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and it wouldn't be like, it wouldn't be very much out 35:28.333 --> 35:29.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of the ordinary if I would have a child 35:29.933 --> 35:32.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or be going to have a child and get married. 35:33.333 --> 35:35.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Can't figure. I mean that's, there's no way I could, 35:35.566 --> 35:37.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I mean I'd never be ready for that. 35:37.000 --> 35:40.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And even my mom, just like her age, I mean she, 35:40.266 --> 35:42.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% she's telling me how when she was a senior in high school, 35:42.066 --> 35:45.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% like, I mean it wasn't, it wasn't just her, it was a lot 35:45.000 --> 35:47.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of girls her age we're like looking forward 35:47.766 --> 35:49.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to like getting married. 35:49.266 --> 35:50.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Like she couldn't, she was hoping 35:50.733 --> 35:52.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that she'd get married soon and then have kids 35:52.800 --> 35:54.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and I'm no way. 35:54.600 --> 35:56.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean, no, that's not what I'm thinking of. 35:56.800 --> 35:57.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'm thinking more of college 35:57.933 --> 35:59.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and still I feel so much more young. 35:59.733 --> 36:02.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't feel like I should be that old yet. 36:02.433 --> 36:04.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Still feel like a kid. 36:04.266 --> 36:05.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - A lot of the, a lot of boys 36:05.766 --> 36:08.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that live out in the country work on their dad's farm. 36:08.033 --> 36:11.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So I'm sure they'll be taking over their farming once, 36:11.700 --> 36:15.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% you know, the dads get older, can't be, aren't able to do 36:15.300 --> 36:17.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% as much as they are now. 36:17.033 --> 36:20.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I suppose kids will be taking over. 36:22.466 --> 36:24.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That's what I think right now anyway. So. 36:24.500 --> 36:26.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - So what do you think is your future 36:26.533 --> 36:27.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in, in terms of farming? 36:29.200 --> 36:31.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well I hopefully plan as of right now, I hopefully plan 36:31.433 --> 36:33.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to come back here after I get outta college 36:33.933 --> 36:37.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and work live on this farm and probably work on this farm. 36:37.600 --> 36:39.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Women are, have play a whole different role. 36:39.333 --> 36:41.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean they're just not gonna, I'm, 36:41.233 --> 36:43.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I don't plan on living in Britain 36:43.233 --> 36:44.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and getting married with someone 36:44.933 --> 36:46.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% who works on a farm and having children. 36:46.533 --> 36:48.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean we're, we're all have different ideas for 36:48.600 --> 36:49.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% what we're gonna do for careers 36:49.800 --> 36:51.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and what we're gonna do in our lives. 36:51.066 --> 36:53.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And basically we make that for ourselves 36:53.200 --> 36:55.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% before we follow the men. 36:55.066 --> 36:57.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And a lot of these, well a lot of them just, not a lot 36:57.866 --> 36:59.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but some of the guys in my class will stay on farm probably 36:59.766 --> 37:02.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% with their, with their dads a great place and stuff. 37:02.233 --> 37:05.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean definitely it's a perfect place to do that. 37:05.133 --> 37:08.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And just the women just aren't playing that role 37:08.566 --> 37:12.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% as just being the mom and wife and that sort of thing. 37:13.900 --> 37:15.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well I'll tell you one thing 37:15.300 --> 37:17.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that really impressed me when I came back to Britain, 37:17.800 --> 37:19.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the mayor was a woman 37:19.200 --> 37:21.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the president of the Chamber of Commerce 37:21.433 --> 37:24.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% or chairman, whatever she is, was a lady at that time. 37:24.033 --> 37:26.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And I thought this is the kind of place to come back to. 37:26.400 --> 37:28.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I really don't think at the time 37:28.700 --> 37:30.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that I left Britain this would've been the case. 37:30.766 --> 37:34.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I feel like that's a certain degree of progress 37:34.133 --> 37:35.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Over the last 50 years. 37:35.366 --> 37:37.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There's been a great deal of progress. 37:37.300 --> 37:39.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Young people have more educational opportunities 37:39.633 --> 37:41.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% than ever before. 37:41.100 --> 37:42.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% New and improved roads 37:42.566 --> 37:45.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and highways make for speedier getaways out of town. 37:45.600 --> 37:48.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But probably the biggest progressive influence on small 37:48.933 --> 37:51.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% towns like Britain has been the media. 37:53.600 --> 37:57.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - We, we went to our days when when radio came in 37:59.133 --> 38:01.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% people stayed home, listened to the radio 38:01.066 --> 38:02.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that was their entertainment. 38:02.933 --> 38:05.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it was cheaper than going to a movie of course. 38:05.766 --> 38:09.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And we come out of that in good shape. Everything was fine. 38:09.600 --> 38:13.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well the first television was, was very poor. 38:13.533 --> 38:17.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% We had to get reception from Fargo, 38:17.766 --> 38:21.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% which is quite a pull or Sioux Falls. 38:21.966 --> 38:23.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So it took a while 38:23.366 --> 38:27.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% before it got so that television was, 38:27.333 --> 38:29.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% was real good, 38:29.200 --> 38:33.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but it, it was a very promising business. 38:33.866 --> 38:35.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Then we sold lots of TVs 38:35.733 --> 38:39.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I didn't realize at that time that I would 38:40.400 --> 38:41.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% be climbing roofs 38:41.733 --> 38:43.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and putting up the antennas on top of houses. 38:43.933 --> 38:48.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But I've probably been up on, oh, 38:48.400 --> 38:53.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% 75% of all the houses in this town putting up antennas. 38:54.566 --> 38:56.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - TV hit of course down it went again. 38:56.566 --> 39:00.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But it was on its way back until this BRC deal came in 39:00.933 --> 39:02.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and you would 39:03.933 --> 39:07.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% put a reel on your TV set and invite all the neighbors in 39:07.966 --> 39:12.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and have a party and, and that's what hit hard. 39:12.000 --> 39:16.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well the cable system covers, I think we have 600, 39:16.400 --> 39:20.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a little over 600 houses that we supply water to. 39:20.300 --> 39:21.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% That's what I'm going by. 39:21.800 --> 39:25.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And I, and cable television has over five, 540 I think 39:25.700 --> 39:27.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% of those homes. 39:27.333 --> 39:29.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I think that it covers almost all the, 39:30.700 --> 39:31.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% almost all the town. 39:33.000 --> 39:35.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well the Strand is viable, it's open 39:35.800 --> 39:37.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we have weekend movies 39:37.866 --> 39:41.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and basically we operate from show to show 39:42.400 --> 39:43.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% a town of 1400. 39:43.700 --> 39:46.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We don't get that many people on some weekends. 39:46.300 --> 39:49.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And hopefully we have one good movie a month 39:49.000 --> 39:50.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that keeps us going 39:50.600 --> 39:55.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and enable us, us to repair, do repairs in the building and 39:55.500 --> 39:57.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and upkeep and maintenance like that. 40:02.666 --> 40:04.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Everybody loves Saturday night. 40:04.900 --> 40:09.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Everybody, everybody, everybody loves Saturday night. 40:09.366 --> 40:12.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Everybody, everybody, everybody. 40:12.966 --> 40:14.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% The two Wando, 40:16.100 --> 40:18.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% everybody loves Saturday night. 40:19.600 --> 40:24.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well the Old Britain of course was larger 40:24.500 --> 40:27.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and a lot more population 40:27.166 --> 40:31.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and Saturday nights 40:31.866 --> 40:35.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the streets would be full of people just solid 40:35.433 --> 40:39.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and they'd stay open until 12 1 2 o'clock at night. 40:39.933 --> 40:41.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The stores would, before they close 40:41.900 --> 40:44.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and now of course they close earlier. 40:46.100 --> 40:49.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - A lot of the old older people like my parents age 40:49.166 --> 40:50.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and stuff 40:50.533 --> 40:52.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and they don't usually come 40:52.033 --> 40:53.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to town like they did in the films, 40:53.966 --> 40:56.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% like on week nights they all gather on Main Street. 40:56.966 --> 40:58.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They don't do that now. So 40:58.933 --> 41:00.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - What, what do people do now 41:00.166 --> 41:01.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on Saturday night do you think? 41:01.600 --> 41:04.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I, I don't know. They watch TV or go at the lake 41:04.133 --> 41:07.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or something I guess, you know, summertime. 41:07.000 --> 41:08.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But even in the wintertime there used to be quite a lot 41:08.800 --> 41:10.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of people in town on Saturday night. 41:12.866 --> 41:17.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - And I don't know, I, I've always thought that the theater, 41:18.566 --> 41:20.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% like out here in the sticks is actually the 41:20.600 --> 41:22.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% center of the community. 41:22.533 --> 41:25.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't think television will ever take the 41:25.200 --> 41:26.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% place of the big screen. 41:26.700 --> 41:31.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I maybe I'm too much of a theater man and just dream that. 41:32.266 --> 41:33.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But I think in the long run I'll 41:34.133 --> 41:35.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% still go back to the movies. 41:36.866 --> 41:38.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - How much TV do you think you watch All the time? A day? 41:40.766 --> 41:43.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Quite a bit. I don't know, three or four hours. 41:44.600 --> 41:45.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So how many TVs do you guys own? 41:50.400 --> 41:54.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Let's see. Or 41:54.166 --> 41:55.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% how often do you go to town? 41:56.966 --> 41:58.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I try to get there at least once every weekend, you know, 41:58.800 --> 42:02.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% just to hang out with my friends and just to be with them. 42:02.133 --> 42:05.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 'cause I'm usually not in every day 42:05.033 --> 42:06.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and during the summer I'm hardly 42:06.900 --> 42:08.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in during the summer at all. 42:08.166 --> 42:10.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But when I do, I like to hang out with my friends 42:10.233 --> 42:13.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you know, just see what's happened in town 42:13.033 --> 42:15.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% during the week and see what they've been doing. 42:20.366 --> 42:23.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I think TV has a large influence on people 42:23.633 --> 42:27.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that's why they stay out of the town area 42:27.900 --> 42:31.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% because they, there's nothing 42:31.333 --> 42:34.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% to really do on Saturday afternoon. 42:34.266 --> 42:37.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Saturday nights, there's a lot of activity out here. 42:37.033 --> 42:39.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - This thing, what he said about tv that's true too 42:39.366 --> 42:42.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because it's not, they don't have to probably pay as much 42:42.833 --> 42:45.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to see a movie and they like to watch TV 42:45.800 --> 42:48.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and just stay home. And 42:48.000 --> 42:49.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - How much do you think television 42:49.700 --> 42:51.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and movies have influenced the way you dress 42:51.833 --> 42:53.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the way you talk and and that sort of thing? 42:56.333 --> 42:58.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Definitely the way you dress. 42:58.433 --> 43:00.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Like fashion magazines and television. 43:00.700 --> 43:02.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% No one's gonna dress different than they do 43:02.600 --> 43:04.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 'cause everybody's gonna wanna be in. 43:04.766 --> 43:08.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And so, but as far as the way you talk, I don't know if 43:08.900 --> 43:10.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% that's made that much difference. 43:12.200 --> 43:14.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Well this like a, like a movie, like Pretty Woman. 43:14.233 --> 43:15.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I mean someone sees that 43:15.533 --> 43:17.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then they just want to be like that person 43:17.300 --> 43:19.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or I mean it could be any other movie but, 43:19.833 --> 43:21.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - But she was a prostitute. 43:21.100 --> 43:22.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean why, why would you wanna be like 43:22.466 --> 43:23.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Her? 43:23.966 --> 43:25.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% She's so, oh but she turns out to be so nice in the end 43:25.400 --> 43:28.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of course and beautiful and all that and the hair 43:28.600 --> 43:31.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the thin body and the clothes 43:31.233 --> 43:32.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and you know, everything like that. 43:32.900 --> 43:35.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% That just, that influences a lot I would say. 43:35.300 --> 43:37.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean just different shows, different fads 43:37.700 --> 43:38.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that people wear and stuff like 43:38.900 --> 43:40.166 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - That. 43:40.166 --> 43:41.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Nobody really knows where I was a prostitute 43:41.133 --> 43:42.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and they just know as what is 43:42.966 --> 43:45.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% what she is just be, I mean she played that part. 43:45.500 --> 43:48.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Yeah. But they look at more of how she was change, 43:48.500 --> 43:50.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% how she changed at the end of the show 43:50.166 --> 43:54.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the dresses she wore and her hairstyles woman 43:55.133 --> 43:57.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Walking down the street. 43:57.266 --> 44:01.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Woman, woman. 44:11.100 --> 44:14.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Another thing I notice then more than I see now, 44:14.400 --> 44:16.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of course styles have changed, I realize that. 44:18.566 --> 44:21.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But you see women with their hair fixed, 44:21.500 --> 44:24.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% just like they come out of a beauty parlor 44:24.033 --> 44:27.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and most of them were sure didn't they fixed it themselves 44:27.233 --> 44:29.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% or a neighbor come in and help. 44:29.500 --> 44:33.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But almost all the ladies you see that are uncovered, 44:33.300 --> 44:34.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% they got out of the street, 44:34.866 --> 44:38.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% hair's all fixed up now they don't seem to care. 44:38.366 --> 44:40.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Hair goes every direction 44:40.100 --> 44:42.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or they have so many different styles. 44:44.400 --> 44:48.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - It's - Changed. It's just, well it's just so weird 44:48.533 --> 44:50.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I know that they probably spent just 44:50.100 --> 44:53.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as much time on their hair as we do now. 44:53.066 --> 44:55.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It was just like, well it's not ugly, you know, 44:55.366 --> 44:57.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but just, just the way they did things. 44:57.033 --> 44:58.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean, who would leave a curl in their hair 44:58.900 --> 45:00.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% like that or whatever it was. 45:05.233 --> 45:07.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - What more do you want in terms of entertainment? 45:11.233 --> 45:13.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - This is hard when you ask it. I, I don't know. 45:13.133 --> 45:17.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I guess shopping malls like Asha said, and I don't know 45:17.933 --> 45:22.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because I guess in small town, like here in Britain it's, 45:22.333 --> 45:24.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% you know, there's not a lot to do 45:24.600 --> 45:27.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I mean you have to like, it's either this or this, 45:27.000 --> 45:30.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but in, it seems like in larger towns, I mean there's 45:30.133 --> 45:31.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% so many places you could go. 45:31.666 --> 45:35.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It'd be like, you know, it'd be to, it wouldn't be that hard 45:35.066 --> 45:36.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to make a decision because I mean, 45:36.700 --> 45:38.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or it would be harder to make a decision 45:38.166 --> 45:39.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because there's so much more to do I guess. 45:39.966 --> 45:41.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I don't know. 45:41.633 --> 45:43.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I left it tric up to them, you know, the time 45:43.833 --> 45:45.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that I was married 45:45.300 --> 45:48.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and made my life it, I wanted to live in Britain. 45:48.433 --> 45:50.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But they don't, they don't choose to do that. 45:50.433 --> 45:51.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But that's fine. 45:52.966 --> 45:57.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - There's so much new in the world where, yeah, 45:57.533 --> 45:59.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% not in Britain, things aren't new in Britain 45:59.533 --> 46:01.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% as when in the thirties new things are coming to Britain 46:01.900 --> 46:03.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and things are staying the same in Britain right now. 46:03.633 --> 46:05.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So people are leaving to find the new things. 46:07.300 --> 46:08.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Times have really changed 46:08.800 --> 46:10.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and like just the way 46:12.366 --> 46:14.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% like people grow up is totally different from what they did 46:14.566 --> 46:18.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% before and they probably think that it's not as good 46:18.900 --> 46:22.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or it, I don't know, just 46:22.300 --> 46:24.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that we are growing up in a total 46:24.166 --> 46:25.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% different way that people used to. 46:26.600 --> 46:28.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - That's all they knew in the thirties 46:28.400 --> 46:29.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that's all they ever thought about. 46:29.833 --> 46:32.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But now with TV and movies 46:32.700 --> 46:37.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and just communication lines, they know what else there is 46:37.200 --> 46:38.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to see do. 46:38.500 --> 46:39.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So they wanna move on. 46:41.300 --> 46:42.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Do you think it's good or bad 46:42.866 --> 46:46.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% or, well I don't, I don't know what it was like back then. 46:46.066 --> 46:51.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So a lot of people think it's bad, but for us it's okay. 46:51.000 --> 46:53.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - And I think now we miss a lot. 46:55.233 --> 46:58.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I know our young people do an awful lothan 46:58.533 --> 47:01.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I were talking about storytelling 47:01.066 --> 47:04.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and how you don't tell stories to kids anymore, 47:06.066 --> 47:08.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% things of the past or anything like that. 47:08.700 --> 47:11.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And the kids haven't got time to listen anyway. 47:11.300 --> 47:14.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We're busy watching TV or running to school 47:14.533 --> 47:16.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and a million things. 47:16.566 --> 47:18.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We're just getting, I think we're gonna 47:18.933 --> 47:20.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% run ourselves to death. 47:20.666 --> 47:21.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I really do. 47:23.133 --> 47:25.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - So - What except me, I'm, I'm a slow book. 47:25.866 --> 47:26.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't think I will. 47:28.933 --> 47:31.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - So what's the future for Britain do you think? 47:31.433 --> 47:33.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well, time will tell. 47:33.366 --> 47:36.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I guess Britain's a county seat that helps. 47:37.466 --> 47:40.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so there's a certain amount of of county employees 47:40.566 --> 47:42.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that are still used in town. 47:43.666 --> 47:45.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But it's, it's harder than it used to be 47:45.400 --> 47:48.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because the roads are so good now that it used 47:48.400 --> 47:50.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to be quite a trip to go to Aberdeen now 47:50.400 --> 47:51.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they run to Aberdeen. 47:51.400 --> 47:52.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Like it was nothing to it. 47:54.066 --> 47:56.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I don't see us growing at any great extent, 47:56.600 --> 47:58.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but I don't think we're gonna get any smaller either. 47:58.766 --> 48:01.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I feel that it's very important that 48:01.666 --> 48:03.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% because we are the county seat, 48:03.200 --> 48:04.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that's an advantage Britain has. 48:06.400 --> 48:09.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - If Britain wasn't the county seat 48:09.166 --> 48:12.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the school is there, well now Horton's is north 48:12.233 --> 48:14.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of town there, it would die out. 48:15.933 --> 48:18.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Bri Britain will disappear eventually. 48:18.500 --> 48:20.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - It's kind of a pretty place 48:20.066 --> 48:21.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and people have been real nice. 48:21.800 --> 48:24.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It, my impression of it comes totally from the films 48:24.666 --> 48:28.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and that's, I have to confess that it's a bit strange 48:28.233 --> 48:30.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because in a certain way when you compare the Britain 48:30.833 --> 48:32.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of today to the Britain of the thirties, 48:32.933 --> 48:35.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% there were more people around the center was more active. 48:35.733 --> 48:38.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% People would come to town to trade and to shop 48:38.266 --> 48:39.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and to take in a show. 48:39.566 --> 48:44.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - We've all got to pull together and work hard 48:44.233 --> 48:49.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because a small town in this complicated technical 48:50.100 --> 48:52.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% day and age can't just sit. 48:53.866 --> 48:56.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - They're kind of disintegrating slowly. 48:56.266 --> 48:58.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Pretty soon they'll probably be all just big cities 48:58.633 --> 49:01.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and like Britain might, you know, like 49:02.333 --> 49:03.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that'll probably be here yet. 49:03.866 --> 49:06.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But most of the big cities will be keep growing and growing 49:06.566 --> 49:09.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and most of the smaller towns will keep, you know, 49:09.933 --> 49:12.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% disintegrating people moving away 49:12.133 --> 49:14.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and moving to the big city. I think 49:15.833 --> 49:20.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - There's nine farmstead in this township, which is six 49:20.266 --> 49:23.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% by six, six miles per six miles. 49:25.966 --> 49:28.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So there are there very, very few. 49:30.733 --> 49:34.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And I'll, well I don't wanna make any predictions, I guess. 49:35.266 --> 49:37.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - And what is your prediction 49:37.000 --> 49:38.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - That there'll be 10 years from now? 49:38.700 --> 49:41.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There'll be less than nine in Hamilton ownership 49:41.500 --> 49:42.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% there might be three or four. 49:44.566 --> 49:46.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It it's going to be less yet. 49:49.000 --> 49:52.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well I foresee a future here as long 49:52.366 --> 49:55.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as people want this kinda lifestyle. 49:55.166 --> 49:57.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% If people don't want this kinda lifestyle, 49:57.033 --> 49:59.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% then they aren't going to stay here 49:59.200 --> 50:03.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the town will not be, as we know today, it's 50:03.500 --> 50:05.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Worth keeping a small town alive. 50:05.500 --> 50:08.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Sure. I think that it's a necessity. 50:09.433 --> 50:10.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% You gotta have people in small town. 50:10.933 --> 50:14.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Lots of people are, are moving back to Britain. 50:14.366 --> 50:16.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They keep buying a house here and there. 50:16.233 --> 50:19.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Come from California, from the east coast, west coast 50:20.500 --> 50:23.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and buy homes to retire here. 50:23.000 --> 50:26.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And it's a good place to retire and 50:26.933 --> 50:30.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and enjoy yourself and nice quiet life, that's for sure. 50:32.366 --> 50:33.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Oh, they'll always be Britain. 50:35.366 --> 50:37.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They'll always be the real small town. 50:37.766 --> 50:40.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It won't, hopefully it will stay. 50:40.666 --> 50:43.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I'll be here, I'll be here working. So 50:43.700 --> 50:46.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - How long do you think your family will farm here? 50:47.700 --> 50:51.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Probably till my little brother grows old, I guess. 50:51.933 --> 50:55.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I don't know. Hopefully that, 50:55.133 --> 50:57.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but technology is changing 50:57.266 --> 50:59.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and times are changing, so I think more people will be 50:59.633 --> 51:01.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% moving to the cities probably. 51:02.200 --> 51:03.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Do you wanna move to the city? 51:04.100 --> 51:05.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - As of right now, no. 51:06.333 --> 51:07.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't think I could live in a big city. 51:07.866 --> 51:11.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Why not? - I like to be outside in the, in the air 51:11.766 --> 51:16.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I like to be outside doing something that, you know, 51:16.033 --> 51:18.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% in a big with no people around. 51:18.500 --> 51:21.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% If you're in a city, you're like, you got a house, 51:21.500 --> 51:25.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they're 20 feet from you and not much privacy 51:25.600 --> 51:27.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and not much freedom. 51:28.300 --> 51:29.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I, that's what I think anyway. 51:33.200 --> 51:37.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The pace I believe was slower in those days 51:39.266 --> 51:43.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I think people worked closer together than they do now. 51:43.600 --> 51:46.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Perhaps it's a changing in times. 51:46.166 --> 51:48.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Maybe it's the speed in which we live, 51:49.733 --> 51:52.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but a little town like ours, you had to work together 51:52.600 --> 51:54.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to hold a town together. 51:57.233 --> 51:58.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Keeping small towns together 51:58.866 --> 52:01.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% by working together is not a new concept. 52:01.866 --> 52:03.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% People of Britain knew 52:03.100 --> 52:05.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that 50 years ago they worked together 52:05.600 --> 52:07.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to survive the great depression. 52:08.666 --> 52:12.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Maybe life was simpler than small towns are no longer immune 52:12.766 --> 52:14.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% from big city problems. 52:14.600 --> 52:18.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Crime, healthcare, pollution, joblessness, 52:18.333 --> 52:20.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and our world is now linked through the media. 52:22.133 --> 52:24.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Perhaps we are speedier. 52:24.466 --> 52:28.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Perhaps family farms will continue to disappear. 52:28.066 --> 52:31.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Perhaps young people will always look for greener pastures. 52:31.866 --> 52:35.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Perhaps the coming changes in information technology will 52:35.133 --> 52:37.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% reshape the way small towns work. 52:38.466 --> 52:41.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% One fact remains, the Britain films will continue 52:41.766 --> 52:44.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to be a testament to those simpler times. 52:44.566 --> 52:47.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And hopefully that old concept of working together 52:47.900 --> 52:51.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to keep the town together will once again be heard all over 52:51.766 --> 52:56.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% these United States as a challenge to solve our problems. 52:56.066 --> 53:00.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So small hometowns like Britain can survive and thrive 53:00.600 --> 53:04.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and remain a hometown forever until the 21st century.