12:37:44 Montage: pan across pine trees & lake or reservoir; MS dairy herd grazing on pasture; farm & cornfield; grain elevator; stockyard w/ beef cattle; railroad freight yard; steel mill; freight cars w/ tractors; city street scene w/ traffic. Narration: “all these reflect the wealth of the middle states of our nation”.
12:38:46 USA map showing six regions - zoom in on Middle States region Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Map shows routes of pioneers & Puritan settlers down Ohio river from Eastern states such as New England & immigration from Europe to Midwest - region held quarter of nation’s population by 1950s.
12:40:06 Montage: car past farm; female office worker at computer card printing machine; city street scenes w/ skyscrapers.
12:40:32 Map of economic regions of Midwest overlapping state borders: Industrial Belt, Corn & Hog Belt, Soybean Belt, Hay & Dairy Belt.
12:41:32 Dairy barn; farmer harvesting hay crop; dairy farming - milking cows w/ modern equipment. Woman puts cheese on table; cheese factory.
12:42:35 Combine harvester thru cornfield; corn fed to pigs / hogs in field. Large corn processing mill; producing industrial alcohol; bags of corn flour on conveyor. Soybean field. CUs.
12:43:48 Montage: Industrial scenes, factories, workers, train pulling coal cars. Open-pit iron ore mine, Minnesota. Ore train in pit; loading truck; loading ore carriers on Lake Superior of the Great Lakes. Cargo unloaded at docks.
12:45:05 LS City & freight train; cargo trucks. Cargo plane unloaded w/ hand-trucks.
12:45:30 Beef cattle herded into slaughterhouse / abatoir; INT carcasses hanging & moved. Oil tank cars; tractors loaded & flat cars w/ farm machinery past. Automobile production / assembly line; ca 1956 finished cars on delivery truck. Furniture production - man upholstering chair.
12:46:23 Map showing imports to Midwest from outside states ; CU map of Midwest states w/ exports. 12:47:11 Industrial scene. Large museum; children / kids in playground; school w/ kids running out.
12:47:35 Overhead of busy city street. Forest & lake, people painting by lake; CU Grant Wood painting, American Gothic of stern farm couple.
12:48:02 Old man w/ covered wagon pulled by oxen; Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois home & statue.
Farming / Agriculture; Commerce / Trade; Heavy Industry / Manufacturing; Consumer Goods; Economics; Regional Geography; 1950s;
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12:37:44 Montage: pan across pine trees & lake or reservoir; MS dairy herd grazing on pasture; farm & cornfield; grain elevator; stockyard w/ beef cattle; railroad freight yard; steel mill; freight cars w/ tractors; city street scene w/ traffic. Narration: “all these reflect the wealth of the middle states of our nation”. 12:38:46 USA map showing six regions - zoom in on Middle States region Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Map shows routes of pioneers & Puritan settlers down Ohio river from Eastern states such as New England & immigration from Europe to Midwest - region held quarter of nation’s population by 1950s. 12:40:06 Montage: car past farm; female office worker at computer card printing machine; city street scenes w/ skyscrapers. 12:40:32 Map of economic regions of Midwest overlapping state borders: Industrial Belt, Corn & Hog Belt, Soybean Belt, Hay & Dairy Belt. 12:41:32 Dairy barn; farmer harvesting hay crop; dairy farming - milking cows w/ modern equipment. Woman puts cheese on table; cheese factory. 12:42:35 Combine harvester thru cornfield; corn fed to pigs / hogs in field. Large corn processing mill; producing industrial alcohol; bags of corn flour on conveyor. Soybean field. CUs. 12:43:48 Montage: Industrial scenes, factories, workers, train pulling coal cars. Open-pit iron ore mine, Minnesota. Ore train in pit; loading truck; loading ore carriers on Lake Superior of the Great Lakes. Cargo unloaded at docks. 12:45:05 LS City & freight train; cargo trucks. Cargo plane unloaded w/ hand-trucks. 12:45:30 Beef cattle herded into slaughterhouse / abatoir; INT carcasses hanging & moved. Oil tank cars; tractors loaded & flat cars w/ farm machinery past. Automobile production / assembly line; ca 1956 finished cars on delivery truck. Furniture production - man upholstering chair. 12:46:23 Map showing imports to Midwest from outside states ; CU map of Midwest states w/ exports. 12:47:11 Industrial scene. Large museum; children / kids in playground; school w/ kids running out. 12:47:35 Overhead of busy city street. Forest & lake, people painting by lake; CU Grant Wood painting, American Gothic of stern farm couple. 12:48:02 Old man w/ covered wagon pulled by oxen; Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois home & statue. Farming / Agriculture; Commerce / Trade; Heavy Industry / Manufacturing; Consumer Goods; Economics; Regional Geography; 1950s; Glitch at 12:41:00 - 12:41:27 picture freezes.