1951 - Government Documentary: America In Transition (1951) R2 of 2

Man out of wood frame house & thru gate; looks at newspaper w/ another man who gestures. CU wheat; man driving caterpillar cleated tractor pulling combine harvesting w/ mountains in background; truck out of field to Montana grain elevator. Dumping load & sampling grain. Loading railroad freight car from elevator. 03:12:17 Potato diggers pulled by tractors, men riding harvestors & potatos & clods on belts then onto ground. Bracero farm workers picking into gunny sacks. 03:12:29 Men sewing sacks of potatoes in sorting sheds. Man picking oranges ; women wrapping; other hand harvest scenes; packing crates, loading railroad cars. 03:12:58 Rancher reading newspaper on horse, cattle, sheep grazing & being driven down road, across plains, in corral, in stockyard & onto train cars. 03:13:53 Logging large old-growth forests; moving timbers onto flatcars & along train tracks. Coal cars & freight trains passing. Steam engines, electric trains. large railroad yard. 03:15:03 Men in RR yard reading newspaper headline: U.S. Rushes Korea Aid. Narrator in first person voice talking about invason of Korea & his efforts routing freight trains. In control tower shunting cars, MCU & CUs making up trains. Crates & raw materials on trains. Army equipment, army trucks, crates, engine labeled United States Army. 03:16:45 Unloading materials w/ forklift, crane. Loading ship w/ palleted crates, drums, railroad cars, tanks, airplanes onto aircraft carrier. 03:17:39 Ships under Golden Gate Bridge & freighters passing in channel & under bridge seen from above. The End. Cold War Propaganda; Korean War; Homefront; Military; Civilian Effort; NOTE: Quick cutting but works as sequences. Good photography.