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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

00:08

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE
EDUCATIONAL FILM SERVICE

CLOUDS

00:16

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE
EDUCATIONAL FILM SERVICE



Contribution from
THE WEATHER BUREAU

Directed by
C.C. Clark and Raymond Evans

Photographed by
Corliss Cramer.





00:26

"Day unto day
uttereth speech---"

00:45

01:06

From the beginning—watchers of the skies.

02:16

Riddles—writ in vapor.

02:35

Weather-wise folk have read them for thousands of years-

03:03

What do they mean to you?

03:17

Majestic cumulus...

03:36

...the every-day cloud of the prairie country...

03:52

...often looming into a thunderhead.

04:05

Feathery cirrus...

04:20

Lowering strato-cumulus...

04:31

Gray stratus...

04:44

...which is just "fog" when you are above it.

05:00

The new-born cloud—10,000 feet above tide.

05:24

The meaning of any cloud form varies with conditions — depending largely on whether the low barometer is going or coming. For example—

05:46

"When the 'carry'

goes west,

Gude weather

is past—"

06:08

"When the 'carry'

goes east,

Gude weather

is neist."

06:25

Thus time-honored proverbs about clouds and sky often embody sound weather lore.

06:50

"In the morning,

mountains---

07:16

"In the evening,

fountains."

07:36

"Red sky in the morning,

Sailors take warning—"

07:51

"—red sky at night

Is the sailors' delight."

08:08

"Mackerel scales

and mares' tails
make lofty ships
carry low sails."

08:55

Even ships that ride the storm sometimes come to grief—
The ill-fated Shenandoah among the clouds.

09:19

"Wool-pack" clouds, (cumulus).

09:30

"Sheep clouds" (alto-cumulus).

09:55

The "anvil"
a shape often assumed by a thunder head.

10:15

These are the script of the elements, in which the riddles of the firmament are written.

10:30

These—
and their countless kindred forms.

13:28

I am the daughter

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...

13:51

For after the rain

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,

14:12

I silently laugh

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.

–"The Cloud,"
Shelley.

15:04

For information on cloud forms write to the Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

15:19

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

18621889
AGRICULTURE IS THE
FOUNDATION OF MANUFACTURE
AND COMMERCE

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