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WWII - 1944, Canada Homefront: Film - Trans-Canada Express

Reel Number: 250224-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: Canada

Location:

TC Begins: 21:13:37

TC Ends: 21:22:10

Duration: 00:08:33

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, Canada Homefront - Railroads Titles. 21:14:04 Montage: LS Passenger train thru Canadian Rocky Mountains. POV thru forests, passing trains, thru stations, thru cities. 21:14:59 Pan Saskatchewan wheat fields, grain elevators & small town & pedestrians. Railroad station & train arriving w/ kids running to watch. Unloading bags, passengers / travelers boarding, conductor looks at watch & train leaves. 21:16:31 MCU Men watching / operating model railroad trains. Children watching movie; Buster Keaton gags & stunts from The General. 21:17:35 Montage: LS across city & smoking railyards; roundhouse turntable turning large locomotive. CUs wheels, moving turntable. Engineers & mechanics working, signing in. Maintenance crew loading water, coal into engine, washing & leaving. No. 6403. Setting watches; crews relaxing smoking, playing cards, reading. 21:19:50 Montage: Women working in rail shop. Men walking on top of freight cars. Trains in & leaving railyard, workers hopping on & off, engineer in cab, message handed on pole, man operating switch handles in control tower. 21:20:30 Montage: Intercut night & daytime runbys; CUs, POVs, Dramatic lighting of steam engines, freight & passenger trains, soldiers looking out moving train; passing convoy in harbor in winter, CUs troops laughing, talking. 21:22:02 The End WW2 Workers; Wartime Transportation; Traveling; 1940s; Railroads; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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