File: Clouds (1920s).webm
Author: C.C. Clark, Raymond Evans
Publisher: United States Department of Agriculture
Year: c. 1920s
PD: PD-USGov
Note: An American silent documentary film about clouds
Cat: Documentary film, Meteorology
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{{c|UNITED STATES<br>DEPARTMENT ''of'' AGRICULTURE<br>{{smaller|EDUCATIONAL FILM SERVICE}}<br><br>{{xx-larger|CLOUDS}}}}
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{{c|UNITED STATES<br>DEPARTMENT ''of'' AGRICULTURE<br>{{smaller|EDUCATIONAL FILM SERVICE}}<br>{{Box|<br><br><br>{{xx-smaller|{{sc|Contribution from}}}}<br>{{smaller|THE WEATHER BUREAU}}{{columns|
|col1={{xx-smaller|{{sc|Directed by<br>C.C. Clark}} and {{sc|Raymond Evans}}}}
|col2={{xx-smaller|{{sc|Photographed by<br>Corliss Cramer.}}}}
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00:26
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{{bc|[[Bible (King James)/Psalms#19:2|"{{di|D}}ay unto day<br>{{gap}}uttereth speech---"]]}}
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00:45
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{{bc|[[Bible (King James)/Psalms#19:2|---"{{li|N}}ight unto night<br>
showeth Knowledge."]]}}
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01:06
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{{c|From the beginning—watchers of the skies.}}
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02:16
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{{c|{{li|R}}iddles—writ in vapor.}}
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02:35
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{{c|Weather-wise folk have read them for thousands of years-}}
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03:03
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{{c|{{li|W}}hat do they mean to you?}}
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03:17
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{{c|Majestic cumulus...}}
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03:36
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{{c|...the every-day cloud of the prairie country...}}
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03:52
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{{c|...often looming into a thunderhead.}}
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04:05
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{{c|Feathery cirrus...}}
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04:20
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{{c|Lowering strato-cumulus...}}
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04:31
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{{c|Gray stratus...}}
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04:44
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{{c|...which is just "fog" when you are above it.}}
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05:00
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{{c|The new-born cloud—10,000 feet above tide.}}
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05:24
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{{c|{{li|T}}he meaning of any cloud form varies with conditions — depending largely on whether the low barometer is going or coming. For example—}}
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05:46
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{{block center|"When the 'carry'<br>
: goes west,
Gude weather
: is past—"}}
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06:08
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{{block center|"When the 'carry'<br>
: goes east,
Gude weather
: is neist."}}
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06:25
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{{c|{{di|T}}hus time-honored proverbs about clouds and sky often embody sound weather lore.}}
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06:50
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{{block center|"{{li|I}}n the morning,<br>
: {{SIC|mountains---|mountains---(quote)}}}}
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07:16
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{{block center|"{{li|I}}n the evening,<br>
: fountains."}}
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07:36
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{{block center|"{{li|R}}ed sky in the morning,<br>
: Sailors take warning—"}}
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07:51
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{{bc|"—red sky at night<br>
: Is the sailors' delight."}}
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08:08
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{{bc|"{{li|M}}ackerel scales<br>
: and mares' tails
: make lofty ships
: carry low sails."}}
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08:55
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{{c|{{li|E}}ven ships that ride the storm sometimes come to grief—<br>The ill-fated Shenandoah among the clouds.}}
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09:19
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{{c|"''Wool-pack''" ''clouds, (cumulus).''}}
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09:30
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{{c|"''{{li|S}}heep clouds''" ''(alto-cumulus).''}}
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09:55
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{{c|{{di|T}}he "''anvil''"<br>a shape often assumed by a thunder head.}}
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10:15
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{{c|{{bl|These are the script of the elements, in which the riddles of the firmament are written.}}}}
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10:30
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{{c|''{{di|T}}hese''—<br>and their countless kindred forms.}}
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13:28
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{{bc|{{li|I}} am the daughter<br>
:: of earth and water,
: And the nursling of the sky;
I pass through the pores
:: of the ocean and shores;
: I change, but I cannot die...}}
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13:51
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{{bc|{{li|F}}or after the rain<br>
:: when, with never a stain,
: The pavilion of heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams,
:: with their convex gleams,
: Build up the blue dome of air,}}
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14:12
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{{bc|{{di|I}} silently laugh<br>
:: at my own cenotaph,
: And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb,
:: like a ghost from the tomb,
: I arise and upbuild it again.}}
{{right|{{smaller|–"''[[The Cloud (Shelley)|The Cloud]],''"<br>''{{sc|[[Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]].}}''}}}}
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15:04
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{{c|{{li|F}}or information on cloud forms write to the Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.}}
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15:19
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{{c|{{smaller|UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE<br><br>{{x-smaller|1862{{gap|5em}}1889}}<br>{{xx-smaller|AGRICULTURE IS THE<br>FOUNDATION OF MANUFACTURE<br>AND COMMERCE}}}}
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