The Bureaucratic Activist Federal Filmmakers and Social Change in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Tick Eradication Campaign

Figure 4a & b.

Frames from The Charge of the Tick Brigade (1919). In the USDA-commissioned cartoon from the Bray Studios, a thuggish tick leads an army’s charge into a cow pasture. A cow couple succumbs to the deadly infestation. National Archives and Records Administration.