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We're On Our Way - Early Transportation

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keywords: retro transportation, vintage automobiles, steam locomotives, horse back, covered wagon, street cars, aimee pfanner, 1930's cruise ship

Synopsis: Humorous film depicting the evolution of transportation from the goofy impractical to the zany improbable. Scenes include kids riding miniature train, ox cart, covered wagon, buggy, lady side saddle, horse car on Broadway, riding elephants, reindeer sled, early automobiles, car crashes down mountain, rocket car, rotor ship, coaching, cruise liner passenger 1930s, passenger-early airplane...(read more)

Date: 1800's-1930's
Duration: 00:07:42
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States, France

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We're On Our Way - Early Transportation

We're On Our Way - Early Transportation

Humorous film depicting the evolution of transportation from the goofy impractical to the zany improbable.

01:00:13;15

Kids waiting to ride a miniature train pulled by a small steam locomotive. Young children riding a miniature train.

01:00:30;04

Shows different means of transportation. People riding in a two-wheel cart pulled by oxen. Two Indians on a horse. Covered wagon and other horse drawn buggies and carriages. Vintage horsecar or horse-drawn tram or streetcar on Broadway, New York City in the mid-1800's.

01:01:33;11

Elephants and litters carried by humans provide transportation for the wealthy in India. The Laps in Northern Norway and Sweden have trained reindeer to pull a small sled called Pulka.

01:02:08;09

Early automobile in France. Early automobiles or cars being pushed over a cliff to an old car graveyard. One car being driven as driver jumps out as car goes over a cliff and crashes. Car crashes over cliff.

01:03:01;02

An early German rocket car. An air sled racing over the snow. A Rotor Ship. Aimee Pfanner, a French girl, crossing the English Channel on a hydro-cycle in 1929.

01:05:30;24

An early cruise ship and shipboard activities of the passengers in the 1930's.