Cotton Sharecropping in the American South. Shot of two groups of black women sitting and chatting in a field of cotton, most of them wearing all white. Sharecroppers kneel to pick cotton while one worker carries a large woven basket on his shoulder. WS of a line of cotton pickers in the field. A woman picks cotton with one arm while she holds her small baby in the other. Shot of many black workers bending down to pick the cotton, most of them wear large cloth bags on their backs. CU of hands picking cotton. Another WS of a line of pickers. CU of a black boy picking. A boy and a woman work together on the same cotton plant. A woman walks into a wooden shack. Two men sit out front and smoke rises from the small chimney. A cart with two donkeys waits in front of a wooden porch. A woman walks onto the porch and leads the child that was sitting there inside. A young black girl stands with her hands in a seated woman’s lap while they talk. An old black man with a cane, a younger black man with in overalls and his hat is his hand, and a woman in a long skirt stand in a line outside. CU of a young serious looking man inspecting the cotton at a table. The suited man talks to share croppers while gesturing to the field they are standing in. He looks to be giving orders to the workers. Men in suits watch as another suited man kneels at a bucket and scoops earth into it. CU of one of the suited men as he talks, looking down. WS of a field with a small house as a man and a horse walk along the horizon line. Two men stand in a barren windy field and kick up dirt and dust. A cow paws at the dusty ground. A shot of barn with part of the roof caved in. A wide, panning shot of a cotton field with no workers.