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BART - Vision ...To Reality

Reel Number: 220394-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: USA

Location: Berkeley,San Francisco, California

TC Begins: 04:49:50

TC Ends: 05:07:25

Duration: 00:17:35

BART - Vision ...to Reality 04:49:50 Sun rising, telephone beauty shot. Montage: city traffic; pedestrians, signs; CUs; people on buses. traffic lights; rundown houses, broken windows, poverty street scenes. Aerial of ?? San Francisco from water, shots from hilltops, Golden Gate bridge & pan across. Traffic on bridges. 04:51:35 Title: BART Vision ...to Reality. POV from front of train. Men looking at large model modern BART station interior & track. 04:52:02 Montage: monorail trains, subways, futuristic model. Oakland Bay Bridge from water. Blowups of newspaper clippings, meetings etc. for Bay Area Rapid Transit system; voting. Animation of BART route. 04:53:55 Men look at models, drafting room; engineers; offices. Bechtel logo & construction projects. Surveying, bridge under construction. Large tunnels. Tudor Engineer co. logo Dam constructions. Architects. 04:55:06 CU worn snare drum played; other instrumetns. 25Jul67 kids turning first shovels. drawings. Pipes in ground near digging. Beams over trench; view inside tunnel w/ men working & water dripping. Men leaving pressure chamber. Earthmoving equipment under ground; moving steel tunnel lining. Lasers & aligning. 04:57:55 Futuristic drawing. Prefabricated tunnel sections launched to be towed for sinking; laser aligning. Dredging trench for tunnel sections, lowering sections. Helmeted hard suited diver into water. Drawings underwater. Welding sections, CU of sparks. Man bicycling thru tunnel. 05:00:33 Pan over Berkeley hills to tunnel entrance on Hayward Fault. Digging in tunnel, pouring concrete. POV thru tunnel w/o rails. Overhead of tracks in place & under construction. CU moving concrete pre-stressed concrete girders; finished spans shown w/ kids playing beneath; traffic moving beneath overpasses. Freeway approaches under construction. POV along tracks. Laying rails on concrete rubber padded ties. Test laboratory over tracks, print-outs of results. 05:03:29 San Francisco downtown & public viewing train mock up. Fare collection machines in CU. Mainframe computers working. Models of stations. Drawings. Testing system w/ control panels & finger pushing buttons. Automatic train control system w/ man in control center; passengers. 05:05:59 Cable car in silhouette, old skyscraper building & others, architecture details. CU pedestrians. Split screen of city shots. 05:06:43 Aerial over construction site, under bridge from helicopter & bridges. POV along track. Credits: Producers: Richard H. Clark, William Helck; Imagination,Inc San Francisco. For Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Tudor, Bechtel Transportation; Promotional Films; Subways; Planning; Development; Earthquake Planning;

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