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On The Track Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221580-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 06:15:31

TC Ends: 06:24:03

Duration: 00:08:32

On The Track Pt. 1 of 2 Association of American Railroads; Dudley Pictures, dir. Carl Dudley 06:16:05 Montage: Statue of Liberty, Mt. Rainier (?), Mt. Rushmore, Capitol, farm in fall, Niagara Falls, Manhattan skyline from under bridge, laundry from tenements, neon lights at night. 06:16:50 Pan as train crosses bridge; montage: grain harvest; large strip mining shovel, steel mill ext, steam passenger trains across western plains, 06:17:17 Large forming presses in auto factory (GOOD) 06:17:27 Railroad exposition & very early steam trains, engines pulls cars or wagons w/ people in costume inside & on top. 06:17:43 Montage: Prairie scene, waterfall, midwest & covered wagons pulled by horses past. Grain. Steel mill. Farmer & conestoga wagon. American Indian on horseback in costume. Covered wagon. 06:18:48 Railroad scenes from early train CUs, to modern w/ countryside, farms. 06:19:22 Montage: Chicago pan from lakefront to city skyline, CUs RR wheels running,five diesel streamline engines out of terminal, men loading handcarts of potatoes into railroad car; loading ship; men working on tracks in front of grain elevators, shovels in mine, steel mill, freight train along river. 06:20:24 Montage: Man eats dinner, woman models fur coat, coal cars, traffic on road, combine, family at dinner, box of fruit dumped, freight train runby, coal cars in yard, large open-pit copper mine & iron mine, logging w/ tree falling, beef cattle, cotton, oil tank cars slowly past, tractors on flatcars, train runby in snow 06:21:35 Montage: Grand Central Station & Penn Station ext & int. NYC. People boarding train, conductor & engineer check watches. CU streamliner locomotive depart & runby; women recline in carriage w/ magazine, runbys. Passengers in domeliner observation cars. Runbys & POV from inside car. 06:23:04 Recreation montage: People on horseback, dude ranch; AV crowded beach; sailboat; skiiers w/ falls; horseback riding in desert past Saguarro cactus; fishing below Rocky Mountain waterfall on large river, holding up fish in small stream. 06:23:36 Railroad runby montage. GOOD. Note: Brief shots but interesting & very good color. Railroad Industry; Transportation; Americana; 1940s; 1950s; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.

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