farming never-neverland

     I watched a video about farm life the other day, hoping that it could help to explain food production. It couldn't. Some people do not believe that food comes from farms--and when told, deny it, as they already "know" better. They "know" that farms are pretend, or out of the past--we get food by some more modern method now--factories, or machines. I have spent hours on the video clip site, trying to put together a set of films that would show plowing, planting, tending, harvesting, transporting, processing, and distribution. I found a lot of videos of combines and harvesters, but I couldn't arrange the set I wanted.  I'll have to try again, or contact an educational video service. I'm looking for a video that will show that farmers are real, not  fantasy characters. The video should show that farms and farmers are modern, not a historical re-enactment. The film should explain what "factory farming" means, as the same people who don't believe that food comes from farms have "decided" that this means food comes from factories. Any suggestions?

it's all a plot

     Crime, war, disaster, romance, intrigue--these all do well at the box office. Making them seem boring in a history book is a crime--or a diabolical plot of some kind. Hollywood does a better job making history interesting than many authors of textbooks. Unfortunately, many people believe that if Hollywood puts it on the screen, it must be pretend. That's right, they believe that Hollywood invented Henry VIII as a screen character. So the movies can't teach them history, since they believe it to be a fantasy.  How to teach them that history was real is the problem.