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Transportation - The American Way

Public Domain Stock Footage Transportation - The American Way

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keywords: transportation, lombard street, commercial aviation, vehicle traffic, coast guard rescue, amtrak, high speed train

Synopsis: The role of the United States Department of Transportation in developing a balanced transportation network of moving people and goods from urban areas and within major cities...(read more)

  • Date: 1974
  • Duration: 00:27:47
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Color
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States

Transportation - The American Way

Shot List:

01:00:18:22

Scenes of America and its people in the 1970s. Image of a 1970s Mercedes comes into view at a street sign that reads The American Way. Footage of various means of commuter transportation and clothing fashions of people in the 1960s & 1970s. Brief image of the Erie Lackawanna electric commuter train. Scenes of train passengers.

01:02:57:09

Scenes of various types of boats and watercraft, street car, people riding bicycles. Scenes of automobiles driving down the famous steep and curvy Lombard Street in San Francisco, California.

01:03:54:28

Various scenes of an airport terminal, image of a flight departure board. Scenes of people and luggage at an airport terminal. People boarding a passenger plane. Various scenes at a major American airport. Excellent shot of a Northwest plane taking off. Scenes of passengers and stewardess serving a meal on passenger plane.

01:05:02:13

Low aerial footage of a freight train and train switching yard. Several excellent images of railroad freight cars.

01:05:42:20

Scenes of cargo ships in a harbor, a tugboat, and activity unloading a cargo ship.

01:06:25:13

Various scenes of motor vehicle, trucks and automobiles. Low aerial footage vehicle on a freeway and traveling on a freeway interchange. Excellent head-on shot of an approaching automobile or car. Chambers St sign with high rise buildings in the background. Scenes of traffic jams and heavy smog in New York City and Chicago in the early 1970s.

01:08:29:06

Images of Claude S. Brinegar nations third Secretary of Transportation. Scenes of construction equipment building the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways or the National Highway System. Various scenes of vehicles on this system of highways. Smoggy scenes of a commuter bus in Washington DC traveling on bus only roadway along side an automobile traffic jam on adjacent roadway.

01:11:51:20

Scenes of cars, automobiles crashing in energy absorbing crash barriers and hitting a street lamp pole. Slow motion scenes of an automobile car air bag deploying during crash test.

01:13:40:10

Various scenes of the activities of the U.S. Coast Guard. Scenes of a sinking cargo ship. Helicopter rescue operation.

01:14:23:23

Various scenes of passenger planes in the early 1970s. Scene of a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 passenger plane taxiing. Scene of a PSA passenger plane. Scenes of a United Airlines Boeing 727 3-engine plane with t-tail. Passenger plane takes-off.

01:17:06:04

Railroad passenger service was revived in 1966. Scenes of passengers in a train coach being served drink. Various scenes of Amtrak passenger trains in motion.

01:18:25:12

Scenes of cargo ships on the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence Seaway.

01:19:11:25

Intermodal transportation is the use of two or more modes, or carriers, to transport goods or freight from shipper to consignee in special standardized containers. Various scenes of the movement of freight using intermodal transportation modes.

01:22:10:18

Scenes of passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport in a mobile lounge on way to board a Pan Am passenger plane in the 1960s.; people boarding air plane from mobile lounge.

01:23:18:11

Scenes of the Bay Area Rapid Transit or BART is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

01:24:12:18

Public transportation in many cities is provide by buses. In some cities a dial a ride on a mini-bus is available.

01:25:08:05

Scenes of futuristic public transportation vehicles. Scenes of a future rail vehicle powered by a linear induction motor.