Farm Boy at Heart (1970)
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nelson, Scott
label: Collection Creator
content: Bobcat Company
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content: Bobcat Company Records
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content: Bobcat Company Records / Series 10: Audiovisual Materials / 10.2: Promotional
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: 16 mm composite optical track print, 650 feet, 19 minutes

Describes the uses of the Bobcat in farming as well as the history of farming products manufactured by Melroe. The original Bobcat and its evolution to the current model is depicted. Bobcats are shown in many settings including dairy farms, hog farms, poultry farms, and orchards. They are seen cleaning pens, unloading feed, moving hay, cleaning barns, and moving peaches and potatoes. Many attachments are shown backhoe cleaning irrigation ditches, forklift lifting peach crates, a special potato bucket, gravel fork, snow plow, grater, grapples, and a posthole auger. Also includes four Bobcats and operators performing a square-dance set to music. Several seconds at the beginning of this film are missing.