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American Road, The Pt. 1 of 3

Reel Number: 221683-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1953,1900s,1910s

Country: USA

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TC Begins: 00:00:01

TC Ends: 00:10:46

Duration: 00:10:45

CU horses hoofs & wagon. 00:00:13 Title: The American Road. Pt. 1 of 3 Credits. 00:00:52 Farm couple riding on buckboard wagon, POV past farmhouse w/ washing on clothes line. 00:01:05 MCU doctor putting on coat, leaving porch, woman enters house; doc into buggy. Couple passing church in buckboard. MCU railroad station & buckboard arriving. Stationmaster; tagging trunk, checking watches & waiting for train. POV down tracks in winter (no snow). 00:02:43 Turn-of-century footage of various street scenes; pedestrians; trolleys; firemen to fire down pole, hitching horses & thru street past camera as people watch. 00:03:35 Beer wagon w/ barrels; Lower East Side vendors & carts; kids playing in street. Elevated railroad & trolleys, etc. w/ Blue Point Oysters wagon & steam train on elevated. 00:04:02 Ext. baseball stadium w/ New York vs Chicago sign. 00:04:06 View of wake in MCU, pan to Statue of Liberty. Women into cars in amusement park & down slide into pool; camel ride; beach & people leap-frogging. Boys playing in fire-hydrant. 00:04:40 Couples out of side road on old bicycles of several types, down country road; down country path & man falls off bicycle, others stop & they turn back. CU wheels. 00:05:35 Quadricycle being greased in brick shop; CU small motor. Fiddles with it. 00:06:19 Night, rolls Quadricycle out of garage & drives down brick street, turning & backing. POV along behind & past houses. 00:07:26 Man leading horse pulling early car along dirt country road. Two young men in large open sedan which stops; they get out & fold up hood. 00:07:53 Two men & woman on land sailing boat w/ four wheels across sandy desert & dry lake bed. 00:08:28 MCU man working on gasoline engine; ls of racing car 999 being worked on. Man at forge. Men tightening bolts; etc. 00:09:06 999 on 25Oct02 set world record. View around banked race course. 00:09:25 Traffic past NYC’s Pennsylvania Station ca 1910-1915. NYC avenue w/ men in bowler & top hats; horse carriages & automobiles. Water wagon spraying pedestrians. Traffic past large building, 00:09:41 CU small account book & hands, 00:09:52 Early open Model A Ford four-seater sedan toward mansion w/ large garden. Man shows to couple. Man hand cranks on side of car as couple watches; drives off. Continued... Automotive History; Ford Motor Car Company; Staged; Turn-of-century; Note: May sell any consecutive 10 minutes of three-part film at per reel rate.

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