Post-WWII - 1948, USA: Transportation In The U.S. Pt. 1 of 2

Post-WWII - 1948, USA: Transportation History And Economics Pt. 1 of 2 Titles. 17:46:06 High Angle / HA LS montage of modern parkway; NYC street scenes, traffic policeman / cop directing cars, POV out of tunnel, parkway. 17:46:29 HA Open western desert plains; railroad in distance. HA smoggy Los Angeles; boat in harbor & view from excursion boat, cargo ships at docks unloading & loading cotton bales. Great Lakes & ore carrier Edmund W. Mudge; unloading Sinaloa. Railroad ferry (?) side-wheeler L.S.Thorne underway: sternwheeler Jack Rathbone’ w/ Esso logo pushing oil / petroleum barge on Mississippi river. 17:48:17 Greyhound bus arrives at station; INT: MCUs HA modern clean bus station; passengers ticketed & boarding; bus along highway, on board & POV. Traffic past on highway. (GOOD) 17:48:55 Trucking industry / company w/ trailer backed to dock, cargo loaded in trucking yard. Trucks along street past camera inc. ‘Monark Kansas City’ and Apex - Shell gas station in BG. 17:49:31 Cargo airlines; planes at airport having cargo unloaded by men in white uniforms; CU ‘Slick’ painted on side of plane. Flowers unloaded. 17:49:57 Art Deco style airlines city terminal w/ world map mural. Interior w/ American Airlines lounge crowded w/ passengers, escalators, MS ticket agent & passengers. Passengers board Eastern Airlines plane. Special baggage & cargo capsule fitted onto underbelly of plane. AV American Airlines passenger plane over New York City; INT passengers in cabin w/ stewardesses. Woman in rest room; baby in cot. 17:51:23 Intertitle: Despite the recent growth of other carriers, the mainstay of US transportation is still the nation’s railroads. 17:51:32 INT NYC Grand Central Station intercut w/ Pennsylvania Station, passengers at ticket booths, ‘New York Central System’ sign. Passengers onto train w/ ‘Pennsylvania’ railroad sign just visible on carriage - INT carriage. Map of USA RR network. Conductor calls “All Aboard.” Futuristic streamlined locomotive past; POV of yard rails. Passengers in car, engineer in cab, POV, rails, porter w/ passengers in lounge. Train across bridge, Signalman watching train past, runbys of freight train & POV from top of moving cars. Switching operation & diagram of trains passing on track w/ electric communication signals visible. Model showing communications. Continued... Commercial Aviation; Technology; Industry; Travel; Post-WW2; 1940s; NOTE: Compilation / montage film - mostly brief shots w/ narration re history & economics of transport.