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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: railroads, cattle ranch, chicago cattle yards, family dinner, slums and poverty, town meeting, dust bowl |
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Synopsis: Variety of scenes from across America from the railroads to smalltown USA to the dust bowl and Depresssion Era footage... (read more) |
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Information: 1900 - 1940 8 min BW |
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Animated map shows how the railroad made Chicago the "hub" of the United States as the railroad was extended west. The railroad changed the west bringing lumber for homes, machinery for farming, and wire for cattle. Point of view shot from front of locomotive of the train tracks flashing by (Head-on shot, oncoming railroad tracks). Indians watching Union Pacific wood burning locomotive pulling cars. Cattle on ranches. Shots of modern locomotives and streamliner in motion. Cattle yards in Chicago and scene of Board of Trade futures.
Scenes of soldier’s hometown in Indiana. Small town Main Street. Scenes of the typical American family seated in dining room. Scenes of modern high school and buildings as opposed to small rural school, children playing in a model community and children in the slums of a large city. Poverty.
American Federation of Labor's William Green speaks. Typical American town meeting in progress. Storefronts of Italian and Greek merchants in downtown New York City.
People reclining on beach in Florida, skiing in New Hampshire, walking across street in blizzard. Scenes of farm before and after area became a dust bowl. Sandstorm in farm country, (dust bowl). Farm family moving from dust bowl. Depression era. Poor family preparing for bed in shack in Mississippi River valley area.
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