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Key To Our Horizon - The Auto Industry

Public Domain Stock Footage Key To Our Horizon - The Auto Industry

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keywords: Automobile Industry, 1950's Chevrolet Cars, Bus Stop, Mass Transit, Full-Service Gas Station

Synopsis: The contributions the Automobile Industry has made in the economic boom of the United States in the early 1950's...(read more)

  • Date: 1950's
  • Duration: 00:10:41
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States

Key To Our Horizon - The Auto Industry

Key To Our Horizon - The Auto Industry

The importance of automobiles and the contributions the automotive industry has made to create jobs for American workers in the early 1950s.

Shot List:

00:00:31;07

Typical American city in the early 1950s; high-rise buildings, automobile traffic, public transportation (electric trolley), people on sidewalks. Shows the use of a Daguerre camera to produce a photograph of only the buildings and other stationary objects along the street.

00:01:22;07

CU traveling footage of a 1952 Chevrolet sedan driven on a city street.

00:01:45;08

Animation of the earth and sun is used to illustrate the number of cars and the distance cars are driven on earth each year.

00:01:58;09

People waiting at bus stop and boarding a public city bus (public transportation)

00:03:44;11

Crowds of pedestrians on a city sidewalk, large number of people on a city sidewalk.

00:04:03;19

A Los Angeles freeway in 1952, city skyline in BG.

00:04:08;00

A moving van and movers taking furniture from a typical Los Angeles California house of that era.

00:04:32;00

Factory workers in a steel mill, automobile glass workers, workers in an automobile tire factory and automobile assembly plant.

00:05:43;17

Large service station in 1952, automobile and service station attendants.

00:06:33;03

Motorcars and trucks used for business in the 1950s.

00:07:23;15

Traffic policeman (cop) directing traffic.

00:07:38;02

Freight train approaching a railroad crossing, automobile (car) in left part of frame. CU of passing freight cars.

00:07:55;10

Young boy selling fruit and flowers at a roadside stand, CU of boy making change with customer.

00:08:21;17

Automobile (car) exiting a car wash, pulling into a motel, and at a drive-in. Female car-hop attaching service tray to automobile (car). Drive-in carhop girl dressed as cowgirl.

00:08:48;15

A 1952 Chevrolet station wagon with wood panel trim. Shot of an automobile (car) towing a boat. Two boys fishing, LS of people at a beach.

00:09:31;20

Man in 1800s style dress and with a Daguerre camera. City street scenes of a typical American city in 1952.

00:10:10;22

Car (automobile) driver point-of-view (pov) traveling down a 3-lane highway. Elevated panning view of the suburbs of a large city.