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Your Permit to Drive
(1951)
Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Safety: Driving;Car culture;Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Duration: 00:10:17 Popularity (downloads): 122 |
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To New Horizons
(1940)
Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the 'Futurama' exhibit in GM's 'Highways and Horizons' pavilion at the World's Fair, which looks... Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Futurism;World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40;Infrastructure: Highways; Duration: 00:22:59 Popularity (downloads): 1117 |
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Caught Mapping
(1940)
How road maps are drawn, field-checked and printed. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Cartography;Geography;Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Duration: 00:08:51 Popularity (downloads): 188 |
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Building a Highway
(1948)
Major steps in the construction of a two-lane (pre-Interstate) highway. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Duration: 00:10:18 Popularity (downloads): 318 |
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American Road, The (Part II)
Shows development of transportation in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing growth of automobile industry, roads and highways. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Duration: 00:08:36 Popularity (downloads): 303 |
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American Road, The (Part I)
(1953)
Shows development of transportation in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing growth of automobile industry, roads and highways. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Duration: 00:17:38 Popularity (downloads): 293 |
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American Road, The (Part III)
Shows development of transportation in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing growth of automobile industry, roads and highways. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Duration: 00:11:55 Popularity (downloads): 264 |
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Give Yourself the Green Light
(1954)
Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways; Car culture: General; Manifest destiny; Duration: 00:24:07 Popularity (downloads): 327 |
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Safe Roads
(1935)
Driving is compared with running a railroad train. With excellent images of steam-era passenger trains. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways;Safety: Automotive; Duration: 00:07:37 Popularity (downloads): 1097 |
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Conquering Roads
(1937)
Highway engineering and development in the pre-Interstate era. Genre: Ephemeral Keywords: Infrastructure: Roads and highways;Land use;Civil engineering; Duration: 00:08:48 Popularity (downloads): 1040 |
