keywords: early transportation, dog sledding, stage coach, steam train, electric train
Synopsis: This 1928 film dramatizes primitive and ancient means of transportation and pays tribute to the railroads as one of the greatest contributing factors to civilization... (read more plus shot list)
Early means of travel were slow and wearisome until man began using “beasts of burden”. Man walking with use of a staff. Camels transporting goods too heavy for man to carry. Shows sled (sledge) used as first vehicle to transport or move heavy loads over the ground. Egyptian slaves use sled (sledge) to move large stone block. Slave master uses whip on slaves. Images of sled pulled by dogs over snow covered ground (dog sled). Small cart with wheels. Prairie schooner and stage coach.
Shows the Tom Thumb, the first American built steam locomotive. DeWitt Clinton steam engine pulling passenger rail cars, later steam locomotive pulling many railroad cars. Shot of approaching steam locomotive. Photo or still Images of Benjamin Franklin and George Westinghouse. Panning view of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company electric locomotive factory, interior scenes of plant. Shot of approaching New York, New Haven, & Hartford railroad passenger trains. Coal train of the Norfolk & Western and Virginian railroad. Norfolk & Western electric locomotive freight train hauling coal. Great Northern Railway electric powered train in the Cascade Mountains. Animated map shows New Cascade 8-mile long railroad tunnel. Shows train entering and leaving a snow shed. Electric locomotive pulls steam locomotive and freight cars through 5-mile Hoosac Tunnel.
Shot List: Story of Transportation, 1928. Start Web Movie at Time Code Shown
00:01:22:11. Clip of man walking with staff.
00;01:40:08. Camels carrying goods.
00:01:54:07. Egyptian slaves use sledge (sled) to move large block of stone.
00:02:05:06. Shows dog sled or dog sledge.
00:02:53:03. Clip of stagecoach
00:03:16:11. Video clip of Tom Thumb steam locomotive.
00:03:38:06. Video clip of DeWitt Clinton steam engine pulling passenger train cars.
00:03:54:02. Shot of approaching steam locomotive.
00:04:43:06. Panning view of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company electric locomotive factory.
00:06:05:11. Shot of approaching electric locomotive passenger train.
00:06:48:06. Steam locomotive hauling coal cars.
00:08:40:11. Shot of approaching electric locomotive entering a tunnel.
00:09:04:06. Animated map shows New Cascade 8-mile long railroad tunnel
00:09:36:04. Train enters and leaves a snow shed.
00:10:21:06. Electric locomotive pulls steam locomotive and train cars through tunnel.