'Sparkling true-to-life scenes depicting rural activity are featured in the Rural Bank's latest and best film, Mother Earth... [which] incorporates the story of two city lads who, after working on various types of N.S.W. farms, become entranced with life on the farm, and assisted by the Rural Bank, combine with an orphan farm girl in the working of a mixed farm' ("Farming Activities in Moving Pictures." The Land 27 August. 1938, 2)
