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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
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.