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Power Behind The Nation Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221389-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947

Country: USA

Location: DC,New York City,NYC,Washington

TC Begins: 00:59:46

TC Ends: 01:06:08

Duration: 00:06:22

Power Behind The Nation Pt. 2 of 2 Farming, grain, wheat, tobacco, hay, grapes, peaches. Haying & harvesting. Combines threshing. CU of grain. 01:00:18 Picking cotton; harvesting maple sugar; sheep herding; cattle herding & cowboys past camera. Food discussed. Soil conservation & irrigation. Canal, ranch land, picking in orchards, apples, trains past w/ whistle close up. Diesel & steam railroads, runbys. Highway & truck, ore carrier & factories. 01:01:46 Commercial aviation; plane taking off, helicopter, TWA Stratoliner past. Mills w/ waterfall; Grand Coulee dam, other dams, Bonneville Dam. Electric towers. Woman & child into home. Robotic machine making glass tumblers. Glass bottles, colors put into industrial tanks. Various machines. 01:03:19 NYC Times Square neon signs. 01:03:27 Capitol building (several shots). NYC public library, Trinity Church & Wall Street. Farm workers, other professions working in offies. NYC buildings, streets. Pedestrians. Small town and people in line with Saving Bond pitch. People past tall buildings. East River & Williamsburg Bridge; Mt. Rushmore. Fred Waring choir singing “This Is My Country” behind. 01:04:57 School kids, Lincoln Memorial, flag flying in CU (good shot). Students leaving school or University. Empire State Building. Farm scenes, mountain scenes with canoe and waterfall. Statue of Liberty. Map with people shaking hands across it. 01:06:01 Stylised city with men in silhouette walking towards it - surreal. The End. Post-WWII Americana Propaganda; Myths; Capitalism; Stereotypes; Patriotism; Patriotic; 1940s Technology;

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