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O'Mara's Chain Miracle 1950's Small Town America
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keywords: transportation, 1950's chevy, small-town usa, classic policeman
Synopsis: A 1951 Chevy Promo piece taking place in the perfect iconic 1950's small-town America setting in which a classic gruff policeman directing traffic shows a bit of kindness to a motorist causing a chain reaction of acts of pay-it-forward kindness by local citizens transforming the morale of the town...(read more)
- Date: 1951
- Duration: 00:11:16
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
O'Mara's Chain Miracle - 1950's Small Town America
A 1951 Chevrolet promo that captures the people, types of small businesses, men and women fashions, and people's occupations in a small “Mayberry-like” American town of the early 1950s.
Shot List:
00:00:43:23
Main street of a small American town in the early 1950s; Vehicles parked along street, automobile traffic, CU of two men in business suites meet on sidewalk. Supermarket “box boy” wearing an apron placing merchandize in automobile for a lady and closing the door of the car after the woman is seated in the vehicle depicting “that extra bit of personal service” found in a “Mayberry-type” town
00:01:10:00
Storefront electric neon sign reads “Supreme Dry Cleaners”; Shows a man exiting the Supreme Cleaners store with suit bag in hand. Shows a workman sweeping up bits of coal after delivery, coal delivery truck in BG
00:01:28:01
Woman and young child crossing street in crosswalk. Woman dressed in a 2-piece suite and wearing a hat, 1950s women's fashion
00:01:40:05
Policeman directing traffic. Front view of Chevrolet convertible driving toward camera. Shows service station (filling station) attendant pumping gas and cleaning windshield of automobile
00:04:04:17
Salesman in clothing store fitting a suit to customer. Scene of attractive lady looking at men's ties. Scenes of customers in men's retail clothing store, interaction between salesman and customers
00:07:37:22
Interior scenes of small town meat market and the interaction of the butcher with customers. Shows female (woman) operator at a business telephone switchboard, vintage business telephone switchboard
00:09:12:05
Traveling views of storefronts on a main street in a small town in the U.S.A. CU of Chevrolet sign at a Chevrolet automobile dealership
00:09:47:07
CU of British actor Victor Andrew McLaglen as small town policeman directing traffic
