Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl

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March, the storms had become commonplace in Amarillo and Dodge City. Residents began to accept them as a part of daily life. On April 10, 1935, a dust storm rolled through Texas and Oklahoma and on to Kansas. The storm lasted for over twenty-four hours, and set a record for intensity and duration of a storm. This storm came four days before the dreadful “black blizzard” that hit Amarillo, Texas on April 14, 1935.
In 1936, The Resettlement Administration, an organization set up to financially aid rural farmers in poverty, sent a film crew to portray the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl. The film was entitled The Plow that Broke the Plains. Rexford G. Tugwell dubbed the film, “America’s first documentary film.” Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a “modern tool of government.” The film was shown to congressmen, diplomats, and New Dealers on May 10, 1936 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The film carried terrific punch, but some Dust Bowlers weren’t happy. T. E. ...

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