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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
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE
EDUCATIONAL FILM SERVICE
CLOUDS
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DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE
EDUCATIONAL FILM SERVICE
Contribution from
THE WEATHER BUREAU
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Directed by |
Photographed by |
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From the beginning—watchers of the skies.
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Riddles—writ in vapor.
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Weather-wise folk have read them for thousands of years-
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What do they mean to you?
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Majestic cumulus...
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...the every-day cloud of the prairie country...
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...often looming into a thunderhead.
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Feathery cirrus...
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Lowering strato-cumulus...
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Gray stratus...
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...which is just "fog" when you are above it.
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The new-born cloud—10,000 feet above tide.
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The 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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"When the 'carry'
- goes west,
Gude weather
- is past—"
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"When the 'carry'
- goes east,
Gude weather
- is neist."
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Thus time-honored proverbs about clouds and sky often embody sound weather lore.
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"In the morning,
- mountains---
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"In the evening,
- fountains."
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"Red sky in the morning,
- Sailors take warning—"
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"—red sky at night
- Is the sailors' delight."
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"Mackerel scales
- and mares' tails
- make lofty ships
- carry low sails."
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Even ships that ride the storm sometimes come to grief—
The ill-fated Shenandoah among the clouds.
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"Wool-pack" clouds, (cumulus).
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"Sheep clouds" (alto-cumulus).
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The "anvil"
a shape often assumed by a thunder head.
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These are the script of the elements, in which the riddles of the firmament are written.
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These—
and their countless kindred forms.
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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...
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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,
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For information on cloud forms write to the Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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AGRICULTURE IS THE
FOUNDATION OF MANUFACTURE
AND COMMERCE