American Experience S10E13 1998 Surviving the Dust Bowl -The 30's (4) avi

The American Experience presents Surviving the Dust Bowl, a one-hour account of the farmers of the Southern Plains who endured extraordinary conditions during the 1930s. This video traces the families as they traveled to the Plains in search of the good life. Finding rich topsoil, they felt they had hit gold and began plowing the land to sow their seeds of success. But unpredictable weather patterns and abusive farming techniques took them by surprise. Following a short-lived spell of bountiful crops, drought replaced the rains. Viewers learn about the unrelenting heat that turned the soil into dust because of overplowing. Then high winds whipped the dust into blinding storms so thick that people were coughing up dirt. Viewers experience the disillusionment that sent some packing for California, while others died of disease. But the majority of survivors stayed, their drive still thriving. Surviving the Dust Bowl explains the practical and drastic measures that kept these livelihoods and spirits afloat.



Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 329 MiB
Duration : 54mn 39s
Overall bit rate : 842 Kbps
Movie name : American.Experience.S10E13.1998.The Thirties-Surviving.the.Dust.Bowl

Video
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Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
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Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 54mn 39s
Bit rate : 700 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.076
Stream size : 274 MiB (83%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.0 Beta2 (UTC 2005-04-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 54mn 39s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel count : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 50.0 MiB (15%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)
Language : English