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keywords: mobile alabama, civilian conservation corps ccc, port of mobile, gulf state park, atmore state prison farm
Synopsis: Civilian Conservation Corps CCC in the Mobile Alabama area as they make large scale improvements and the building of State Parks as well as scenes of Alabama commercial shipping and commerce (2009-582f.txt 11662)...(read more)
- Date: 1935
- Duration: 00:10:23
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Down Mobile Way - Alabama
Scenes of Mobile Alabama and building of state parks in the Mobile area by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935.
Shot List:
00:00:32;03
People visiting Bellingrath Gardens in Theodore, near Mobile, Alabama. Scenes of a Mobile Alabama neighborhood with a tree lined street and beautiful southern homes in 1935.
00:01:37;22
Scenes of ships entering the Port of Mobile. Scenes of loading cotton bales on a ship at the Port of Mobile. Wooden barrels of turpentine to be loaded on a ship. Unloading bananas from the hole of a cargo ship and moving the bananas to railroad cars for shipment north.
00:03:29;05
Fresh water lake in Gulf State Park in Baldwin County Alabama. Small motorboat on a lake. CU of outboard motor on boat. Scenes of white sand beach on the Gulf of Mexico.
00:04:41;23
Scenes of the work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps CCC. Workers boarding trucks and working on roads in an Alabama state park. CCC workers using a vintage steam powered fire engine to jet holes in the lake bottom for supporting piles for the pier.
00:05:59;23
Brief CU of an Alabama road sign Alabama US 45 with 1930s automobile on road.
00:06:52;27
Vintage road construction equipment. Tractor pulled road grader. Men using shovels to load dirt onto a dump truck.
00:07:17;26
CU image of a elderly Black man African-American that lives near the construction site tells of witnessing the capture of Fort Morgan by Union soldiers in the Civil War war between the states.
00:07:36;27
Scenes of prisoners from the Old Moffett Prison Farm or Atmore State Prison Farm working in the field growing vegetables to feed the prisoners convicts serving time in the state prison at Atmore, Alabama in the 1930s.
00:07:43;16
Sign reads Little River State Park. Shows a fire watch tower at Little River State Park. With the construction of a dam to contain lake water overnight cabins were also constructed.
00:08:52;28
Scenes of several ladies walking in the park. Note: lady dress fashions and women hair styles in the mid-1930s.
00:09:41;20
CCC worker with the largest feet needing a special order for size 15-boots. Images of dancing feet only doing a tap dance in size 15 boots.
- Related Titles:
- Alabama 1937 - Heart Of The Confederacy
