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1950's Scene Variety 4 Housing, Church Architecture, Industry
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keywords: 1950's America, Housing Construction, Mansions, Urban Buildings, Suburban Housing, Church Architecture, Stained Glass Windows, U.S. Industry, Computer Room, Hydroelectric Plant, Steel Construction, Machine Tools
Synopsis: Unedited footage from the 1950's of types of Housing Construction and Housing Examples, Church Architecture and Various American Industry...(read more)
- Date: 1950's
- Duration: 00:07:00
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States































































1950's Housing
Building a house, carpenter nailing, labor pushing wheel barrow, carpenter sawing lumber with hand saw, framing of a house. Various scenes of homes and mansions, pueblo, commercial buildings, apartment buildings.
1950's Church Architecture
Shows modern and traditional forms of church architecture, Pueblo churches, stained glass windows, and churches in various parts of the U.S.
1950's Industry
A row of tape drive data processors, data processor printer, processing control panel, and data selection mechanism. Panning up view from hydroelectric switch yard to transmission lines and towers. Control room of hydroelectric power generation dam, water flowing down dam spillways. Industrial machines and tools. Driving view of oil refinery. View of flowing molten metal. Brief scenes of round gas storage tank and oil storage tank, electric switch yard, oil storage tanks, natural gas tank, pipeline construction.
Internal electromechanical components in IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting & Control). Rare HD video footage of IBM 305 RAMAC. The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving head hard disk drive. Steel workers erecting steel structure, man wearing eye protective hood using arc welder. Scenes of engine blocks, boring machine boring piston holes in engine block. Oil well pumping oil, oil well derricks. Footage of air tools in use. Workmen drilling blast holes using pneumatic drills. Pneumatic chisel cutting asphalt pavement. Coal fired plant, workmen leaving plant.
Shot List:
00:00:36;21
Brief image of an old mansion
00:00:39;11
Scenes of unusual front entrance of large home
00:00:59;09
Scenes of pueblos and Indian cliff dweller ruins
00:01:46;12
Panning view of 1950's homes with bold, bright colored garage doors
00:02:38;05
Stained glass windows in a church
00:02:43;15
Images of churches steeple
00:03:19;20
Modern church architecture
00:03:44;17
Southwestern church architecture, arch with a cross
00:03:55;09
Remains of a broken concrete cross
00:04:09;01
Unusual shoreline scene of a cliff
00:05:01;15
Row of tape drive data processors
00:05:04;04
Data processor printer, processing control panel, and electromechanical data selection mechanism
00:05:19;11
Pan up view from hydroelectric switch yard to transmission lines and towers
00:05:27;13
Control room hydroelectric power generation dam, water flowing dam spillways
00:05:31;15
Milling machine, boring machine, other large industrial machines
00:05:41;01
Automobile engine block moving toward camera
00:05:45;09
Driving view inside of oil refinery
00:05:51;18
Scenes of handling molten metal
00:06:08;01
Hand opening service door of IBM 305 RAMAC
00:06:10;04
Rare footage, electromechanical components of IBM 305 RAMAC in operation
00:06:29;06
Steelworker hitting alignment pin with sledge hammer
00:06:33;16
Man wearing eye protective hood using arc welder, sparks flying
00:06:38;11
Scenes of engine blocks, boring machine boring piston holes in engine block
00:06:48;04
Oil well pump, oil well derricks
00:06:52;20
Air tools, workmen drilling blast holes with pneumatic drills. Pneumatic chisel cutting asphalt pavement
00:07:00;15
Coal fired plant, workmen leaving plant
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- 1950's Scene Variety 2: Atomic Reactor, Radioisotopes, Solar Flare
- 1950's Scene Variety 3: The School Classroom, Modern Farming, Full-Service Station
- 1950's Scene Variety 5: Clothing Styles, Job Occupations, New York Window Shopping
- 1950's Scene Variety 6: Train Travel, Setting Sun