This film documents training offered to Peace Corps volunteers studying at Oregon State University. The film specifically depicts volunteers intending to travel to India to provide support for programs in swine and poultry production. Footage includes scenes of language instruction, a program overview and rationale, and agricultural training related to birthing, feeding, handling and evaluating swine, and feeding, inoculating and butchering chickens. Content warning: scenes of chickens being plucked and butchered begin at timestamp 0:12:40.
Primarily silent footage with two audio portions. Digitized from a film reel held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120:187), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
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