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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221588-06
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1952
Country: Canada,USA
Location: Bellevue,Cleveland,Huron,Illinois,Missouri,Ohio,Peoria,St Louis
TC Begins: 21:51:52
TC Ends: 22:09:44
Duration: 00:17:52
The Nickel Plate Story Dudley Pictures Corp. Written & Dir. by Herman Boxer. Ed. Wm Faris. Narrated by Art Gilmore. 21:52:07 Middle America - pan over farmland. POV from train, boats on lake, corn harvesting, mine head. 21:52:55 Map of America. 21:53:19 Migrants Picking crops; POV past coal cars, appliances crated, grain threshing, pouring steel, POV of tracks; family at table; large crane unloading ore. 21:54:16 Tractors past on flatcars. Steam locomotive. Diesel steamliner into station, passengers board. 21:54:41 Loading freight cars w/ hand trucks, barrels. Steam train towards camera & runover. Diesel passenger train out of previous station; across bridge. Int. dining car, black waiters serving. 21:55:51 Tractor harvesting Soya beans. Coal loading into open cars; mine cars past; coal dock at Huron Ohio - coal loaded. Coal trains. Ore docks at Huron, unloading ore. 21:57:57 POV w/ freight train passing. Montage industries & unloading & loading freight; beef off cars, cows in field. Steel beam, hand truck loading car. CU engine driving wheels starting. Steam runby in snow. Yards & two freight trains; runby on curve. 21:59:38 Map w/ animated diagrams. Night shot steam train PV12 leaving Peoria. St Louis Terminal ST 96 leaving. Steam Train leaving station. Animated map. PV12 arrives Frankfurt, Indiana. Switch engines in RR yard. ST96 arriving. Switching cars brief shot of army trucks on flatbed. Making up freight trains on hump switching. PV12 pulls out of Frankfurt, low angle past switch. ST96 close runby, towards Toledo. 22:02:10 Bellevue, Ohio shot of RR yards & CB12 from Chicago arriving. Shots relating to freight, freight terminals, switch engines. PV12 arrives Bellevue. Animated map. 22:03:54 Railway yard w/ mileage titles over. Tracks, Int. offices. 22:04:39 RR workers repairing, improving tracks. Grade crossing w/ freight trains past. Cleveland, Northern Ohio food terminal, trucks aka lorries (GOOD). Loading, unloading. Niagara Frontier food terminal. Loading & unloading freight car. 22:06:41 Int. offices of Industrial Development Department of Nickel Plate Road. Hands turning charts. Presentation packet. Passenger train leaving. 22:07:29 Boy & girl leaving house, mother out w/ boy’s lunch pail; engineer father out & talks to wife. POV w/ engine alongside. Int. traffic offices, men at map. Unloading freight; Passengers; ticketing; dining car. RR workers. Man on pole, working on tracks. POV past grain field & other farm shots. Tilt up large smoke stacks. Corn harvester; runby at highway crossings. Abrupt ending. Transportation; Railroads; Promotional Films; Locomotives; 1952; 1950s; Gandy Dancers; NOTE: Good quality color, lighting & compositions. NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.