keywords: railroads, cattle ranch, chicago cattle yards, family dinner, slums and poverty, town meeting, dust bowl
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)
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