Buyout Footage Logo - Public Domain Films and Royalty Free Stock Footage
Buyout Footage Logo - Public Domain Films and Royalty Free Stock FootageHome link - buyoutfootage.comCollections link - for royalty free stock footagePublic Domain Archives link - for public domain films archive film stock footageFootage Search link - search for public domain films and royalty free stock footageCheckout link - shopping cart container
Buyout Footage Logo - Public Domain Films and Royalty Free Stock Footage
Buyout Footage Logo - Public Domain Films and Royalty Free Stock Footage
Special Feature - Public Domain films, Royalty Free Stock Footage, Archive film stock footage library
Custom Cuts
Public Domain Stock Footage FAQ
Download Quicktime to view our royalty free stock footage
Buyout Footage Historic Stock Footage Archive
Download full films or create your own custom cuts
Public Domain Stock Footage POV America Volume 1
HD Quicktime format: (72 hr. turn-around)
Mac: 1080P ProRes - PC: 1080P PhotoJpeg
HD-PhotoJpeg $449.00
NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around)
PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around)
Timecode Preview: 24-hr. turnaround
ecommerce secure website
Synopsis: Historic stock footage of early American from the trains and railroads in the early 1900s to images of small town USA in 1940, and the extreme American weather conditions over the year...
(read more plus shot list) (drive #673)
Information: 1900 - 1940 07:33 min BW
Show All Flashback 1920s - 1940s Titles P.O.V. America - Volume 1
Animated map shows as the railroad was extended west Chicago became the “railroad hub” of the United States. Shows a vintage steam locomotive freight train traveling across a vast desert. Shows Indians watching a Union Pacific wood burning locomotive passing. Shows harvesting of wheat with horse (mule) pulled combine. Scenes of the Chicago union stock yards (Chicago stockyards) . Shows futures and option prices on large black board at the Chicago Board of Trade. Shows a collection of images of fast moving trains. CU of fast rotating drive wheels of a locomotive or train engine. LS of fast moving train blowing whistle.

Image of a soldier “snoozing” (sleeping) in a small town train station dreaming of his hometown in Indiana. Scenes of an affluent, small town American family seated at dining room table.

01:03:36:02
A collection of brief images of the main street in small American town (city), a modern school, children exiting a run-down, one-room, rural school, high-rise apartment building with clothes hanging from clothes lines in slums of large American city, angle shots of skyscrapers.

01:04:25:26
CU Image of American Federation of Labor William Green. Image of CIO president John L Lewis.Typical American town-hall meeting in progress.

01:05:08:24
Image of Father Coughlin. Image of Father Divine.

01:05:16:09
Street scenes and storefronts of Italian and Greek merchants in downtown New York City. Storefront signs of other nationalities.

01:05:40:19
Brief image of an water wheel turning and boys swimming in a country “swimming hole”.

01:05:52:11
Winter scenes of snow covered cars on main street of small town or city and a neighborhood of modest homes.

01:06:02:15
People on a beach in Florida, skiing in New Hampshire, Excellent scenes of people walking across ice covered street in a blizzard.

01:06:34:21
Scenes of an American farm before and after area became a dust bowl. Scene of huge dust storm (sandstorm) in farm country, (dust bowl). Farm family moving from dust bowl. Depression era. Poor family preparing for bed in shack in Mississippi River valley area.

Shot List:

01:00:32:10 View of vintage steam locomotive freight train traveling across a vast desert

01:01:32:19 Harvesting vast fields of wheat with horse (mule) pulled combine

01:01:59:27 Scenes of the Chicago union stock yards

01:02:02:17 Shows Chicago Board of Trade for Wheat, Corn, Oats, and Rye futures and options on large blackboard

01:02:05:13 Shows a collection of images of fast moving trains

01:02:21:13 CU images of drive wheels of a train locomotive

01:02:35:12 LS of fast moving train blowing whistle

01:02:41:10 Image of a soldier “snoozing” (sleeping) in a small town train station

01:03:20:09 Scenes of an affluent, small town American family seated at dining room table

01:05:16:08 Street scenes and storefronts of Italian and Greek merchants in downtown New York City, storefront signs of other nationalities