1950 ca USA Americana: America’s Traffic Problem

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Title. 15:11:24 LS of heavy traffic; CU driver; feet on pedals; parking & rear end collision. Family in car; town & traffic. Newspaper articles. 15:12:53 View of Capitol from Union Station, Washington DC. People into Constitution Hall, President Truman speaking, SOF, at Highway Safety Conference about lack of driver license requirements. 15:14:01 Driver training w/ miniature cars, machines, lectures, charts, posters. Parking in dual control cars. Yale University library & students. Traffic Engineering classes w/ Theodore Matson instructing. Signals, laying out street markings, parkway signs. Motorcycle policeman ticketing man. 15:16:16 LS of highway interchange w/ city beyond. Parkway view. Near accidents. Highway construction / building. Backup behind trucks. 15:17:07 Aerial over Gulf Freeway, Houston Texas; wide highways. Elizabeth, NJ w/ city traffic, policeman. Housewife & children as father leaves for work. Cars into service station. Milk truck , farmer’s market, parking lots w/ full sign. Parallel parking, fire hydrant, frustrated drivers. Policeman giving parking ticket to woman w/ packages. Sign: Don’t Park This Side. 15:19:47 Ext. Elizabeth City Hall; int. meeting SOF of problems & need for master plan. High angle White Plains New York; interior meeting w/ blue prints / plans. 15:20:39 Construction of parking lots w/ parking meters installed. CU municipal parking lot signs, feeding coins into meters. Railway Express truck at loading dock. 15:21:39 New York City congestion, near gridlock. Garment trucks unloading. Store front. 15:22:10 Engineers looking at mechanical parking device, CUs. Baldwin Automatic parking. Model of automatic parking garage w/ William Zeckendorf explaining, SOF, to others. CUs “Its a job of private capital & private enterprise to clean up...” Demonstrates w/ automated model moving cars horizontally & vertically. 15:24:27 New York City Municipal building ext; int w/ Robert Wagner, Jr of New York City Traffic Commission talking, SOF, “Traffic is a little bit like the weather; everyone talks about it but they don’t think anything can be done about it. Well I don’t agree...” 15:25:25 Battery Park area of lower Manhattan photograph w/ arrows pointing to solutions of roadways & CU sign: Brooklyn - Battery Tunnel, Manhattan Plaza. Construction of tunnel entrance. 15:25:46 Blueprint / drawing of New York Union Motor Truck Terminal & construction. Traffic slowly moving, stopped in crosstown traffic. 15:26:33 The End. City Planning; Urbanization; Drivers Education; Inventions; 1950s; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk