Farmington Implement Film Collection
Growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm in the early 1960s with shiny new IH equipment purchased at Farmington Implement (my Grandfather’s dealership) was a sure way to build loyalty. Always attending school and missing every IH promotional film ever shown at Grandpa’s open house created a vast yearning for those missed films.
Many years later a decade of intense and expensive searching revealed a sobering reality.
The IH corporate film collection was carefully preserved for eight decades until tragically most of it was discarded in 1991. The single greatest corporate film collection in the world was gone. How could this be? In time that question would be answered and large portions of the original corporate collection were reassembled from many different sheds, attics, garages and basements where farsighted individuals had triumphed over the dumpster. Other films from across the U.S. and the entire world have been added to what has become the largest International Harvester film collection in existence. Films continue to be added as the search relentlessly goes on.
—Craig Swanson, Producer