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Bus Driver, The

Reel Number: 221599-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945,1946

Country: USA

Location: allegheny mountain,Harrisburg,New York City,NYC,Pennsylvania,Pittsburgh

TC Begins: 08:01:38

TC Ends: 08:12:19

Duration: 00:10:41

The Bus Driver Erpi Classroom Films 08:01:53 INT. LS NYC East Side Terminal waiting room. 08:02:04 Young boy, George, & his father buying ticket at ticket window. 08:02:17 Greyhound bus pulls into station, driver off looking at watch, into station. Clerk announces departures, CU speaker, people boarding give tickets to driver. 08:02:53 Black porter loads luggage. George & father board. 08:03:07 INT bus, people into seats. Driver starts bus, closes door; bus backs out & leaves station. 08:03:42 PoV thru city streets. CU steering wheel, signal switch, turn signals blinking, bus turns. 08:04:03 Pan across Manhattan as bus leaves Lincoln Tunnel. 08:04:11 High angles of driver steering bus. Bus along four-lane highway - traffic. 08:04:27 INT People. POV past truck traffic on two-lane road. Driver, POV past driver along highway. Bus pulls up at traffic light; driver checks pocket watch - 9:56am. Bus pulls away. POV. Car swerves in front of bus from side road; oncoming car passes too close. POV view ahead; looks to side mirror. 08:05:50 View from wing mirror as cars overtake. Bus behind concrete truck; along rural highway - farm boys & girls wave to driver from roadside. Driver inside cab. 08:06:40 Bus thru underpass as train crosses above. High angle passengers inside bus - CUs people reading, napping etc. Bus slows down to pass stalled car. CU foot on brake pedal. 08:07:27 Bus arrives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania & past Capital building; into bus station, passengers helped off, George shakes hands w/ driver. New driver takes over, exchanges paperwork. 08:08:25 Aerial of Susquahanna river & bus & traffic across. INT other bridges seen; new driver honks horn. Bus w/ destination Pittsburg pulls up at toll booth for Pennsylvania Turnpike; little traffic on highway as bus leaves; up hills & sweeping curves, ridge thru road tunnel marked ‘Allegheny Mountain’ - down to valley. Bus arrives at rest stop. 08:10:17 INT George & father ordering food at lunchroom / diner; driver checks tires & engine. 08:10:52 Bus on highway from in front; passengers, POV; CU bus wheel. 08:11:18 Bus crosses high bridge over industrial valley w/ steel mills, entering Pittsburgh. Passengers get ready to leave bus as it pulls into bus station. Arriving. George collects luggage - driver waves. Travel / Tourism / Travelogues; Public Transportation; Coaches; New Roads / Motorways; Thruways; 1940s. Journey; Americana; Post-WWII; Post-WW2;

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