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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221144-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1958
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 08:59:07
TC Ends: 09:10:13
Duration: 00:11:06
Animated titles w/ book pages turning; ‘This is the story of the early days of railroad transportation in America as pictured by the artists of the time & told in the words of railroad men’. 09:00:04 Narrator describes history of railroad development over montage of portraits some animated depicting early 19th Century life w/ folk music: Pioneers inc. Lincoln - flatboats on Mississippi - canal construction - horse-drawn carriages attached to rails. Animation showing development of steam engine. Stevenson’s Rocket. Dates over map of United States: 1840, 1850, 1860. Early US locomotives & hazards.Modifications to English design. Changes to farming & cities. Locomotives in motion. Railroad disasters. Iron replaced by steel. US History; Travel; Transportation; Public Transport; Commerce; Economics; Animation; 19th Century History; Technology; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.