Wide Wide World Aka World Wide World Beware - Other Items Share This Title (1946)

Title reads: “Wide Wide World“. Annual cotton picking contest in Arkansas, USA (United States of America). An official fires a pistol for the beginning of the contest. Various shots of some of the pickers at work. Various shots of the pickers trudging home with loaded sacks slung across shoulders. One man tips out raw cotton onto the ground. C/U of small black girl with hair in braids sitting amongst a pile of raw cotton. All the cotton pickers seen are white. Delivering supplies to our army in Palestine (now Israel). Supplies of all kinds are dropped by parachute to British army forces in the Transjordan (now Jordan) area. Various shots of a plane dropping its load of supplies which float down to the ground. M/S of parachutes floating down. Various shots of a camel patrol of the Transjordan Arab legion standing by and picking up the supplies as they land on the desert sand. M/S of a British soldier hands a drink to one of the Arabs who is seated on a resting camel. C/U of a jeep supported by