​Monteith Mccollum

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"A tricky and tremendous film that examines what work means to the soul"Elvis Mitchell - NY TIMES

How do you illustrate the vision at the center of Milford Beeghly's career a man for whom hybrid corn represented the cause of a lifetime? Dancing ears of corn, snippets of old commercials, and visual meditations on the rich Midwest farmland that nurtured Beeghly's faith in the miracles of hybridization. 
 
With a single-mindedness that seemed to preclude such normal obligations as communicating with his family, Beeghly took the cause of hybrid corn on the road to show farmers that it was neither a hoax nor a sin. In the 1950s, he produced his own commercials for local TV stations incidentally creating time capsules rich in the language and attitudes of mid-century American farmers. And he continued to develop his own hybrids.