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1938 - USA, Daily Life: City, The R1 (1949 Spanish version)

Reel Number: 221725-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1938,1930s

Country: USA

Location: Massachusetts,New York City,NYC,Pennsylvania,Pittsburg,Shirley

TC Begins: 10:19:19

TC Ends: 10:31:14

Duration: 00:11:55

Titles. 10:20:46 Light patterns on water, tilt to grist mill & large water wheel w/ water turning. Barn & weathervane w/ plaque SIAS FARM, 1791. Water over wooden dam, boys swimming in slow stream. Horse, wagon & boy laying on his back next to barrel of apples; POV to sky thru leaves; past Shirley Village on stone. Pan village w/ church steeple. Boy off wagon, wagon along town street to blacksmith & farmer unloading wagon wheel & rim. 10:22:38 Turning metal rim, carrying into shed. 10:23:02 Women quilting; hand weaving on large loom; basket making; waterwheel at mill & gears. Man inspecting corn, grinding wheel & flour. Men scything hay. New England church, pan cemetery on hilltop & CU stones. Boy & dog running across field. 10:24:44 Blacksmith at forge heating rim; pounding to weld. CUs. Large steel mill interior & ext. Chimneys & smokestacks w/ smoke covering town / city on riverbank. Overhead of house chimneys smoking 10:25:50 Wooden houses on hillside w/ people on porches, walking up hillside stairs. Pan steel mill to houses above. People walking up / down stairs; CUs & MSs. Children run across railroad tracks; train runby. 10:26:57 Man w/ peg-leg carrying bucket of coal to house; Black man into shack; woman out w/ wash pan. Steel mill chimneys intercut w/ CU children; man washing in basin, woman at coal cook stove, chimneys & smoke, railroad steam engines. 10:28:22 Skyscrapers from below & tilt down to narrow streets, pedestrians out of subway, people hurrying to / from work. LS, MCUs, CUs. Crowds; elevated. 10:29:16 CU Women’s hands on typewriter keyboards; large office of women working. 10:29:32 Tilt down sides of skyscrapers, lower Manhattan. CU elevated subway train runby. 10:29:51 Montage: kids playing in street, traffic past. Woman, man, many eating at sidewalk stand, chewing. Woman filling many coffee cups; crowded diner w/ people hurriedly eating. CUs. Man slicing large loaves of bread, multi-slice toaster, sandwich making, automated pancake making, CU eating, chewing, drinking coffee. 1930s; Poverty; Americana Daily Life; Rural; City; Industrial Life; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2; Working Class; Middle Class; Agriculture; Agrarian; 1938; Health Hazards; Pollution; Ecology; Ecological Degradation; Machines; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Very good picture quality.

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