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1947 - Color, USA Industrial History: Power Behind The Nation Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221186-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947

Country: USA

Location: New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 21:15:57

TC Ends: 21:22:27

Duration: 00:06:30

1947 - Color, USA Industrial History Pt. 2 of 2 Montage: Farming, wheat, tobacco, hay, grapes, peaches. Haying and harvesting. Combines, threshing. CU of grain. 21:16:27 Picking cotton; harvesting maple sugar; sheep & cattle herding & cowboys past camera. Food discussed. Soil conservation & irrigation. Canal, ranch land, picking in orchards, apples, trains past w/ whistle close up. Diesels & steam. Highway & truck, ore carrier and factories. Golden Gate bridge. 21:17:53 Commercial aviation & plane taking off, helicopter, Stratoliner past. Mills with waterfall; Grand Coulee dam, other dams. Electric towers. Woman and child into suburban home. Robotic machine making glass tumblers. Glass bottles, colors put into industrial tanks. Various machines. 21:19:26 Electrical transformers, lightning, night & NYC Times Square & various neon signs. 21:19:39 Capitol building (several shots). NYC Public Library, Trinity Church, Wall street. Farm workers, other professions working. NYC buildings, streets. Pedestrians. Small town and people in line with United States Saving Bonds of different denominations. People past tall buildings. East River and Williamsburg Bridge; Mt. Rushmore. Fred Waring choir singing behind. 21:21:08 School kids, Lincoln Memorial, flag flying in CU (good shot). Kids leaving school or University. farm scenes, mountain scenes with canoe and waterfall. Statue of Liberty. Map with people shaking hands across it. 21:22:14 Stylized city backdrop with men walking towards it. Surreal. Propaganda; Myths; Capitalism; American History;

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