GiveYour1954 Handy (Jam) Organization movies prelinger moviesandfilms Advocacy film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Interstate Highway System. 1954 1954 Infrastructure: Roads and highways;Car culture: General;Manifest destiny http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 1 2002-07-16 00:00:00 2002-07-16 00:00:00 2005-01-13 09:36:44 General Motors Corporation, Department of Public Relations Sd C 24:07 EXPRESSES NEED TO MODERNIZE AMERICA'S ANTIQUATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM. SHOWS FRUSTRATED DRIVERS (WHO TURN INTO SHEEP), EXCELLENT STREET AND HIGHWAY DRIVING SEQUENCES. CITY SKYLINES AND COUNTRY SCENICS. Well-made corporate propaganda advocating better roads and highways; part of the lobbying process that led to the passage of the Federal Aid-Highway Act of 1956, the authorization for the Interstate Highway system. 12:25:40:02 Drawing of trafic light with yellow caution light colored in, then red, then green Film titles Aerial shot of expressway, camera pans up road until it gets to aerial view of interchange Fades to VS/CU cars driving, CU of traffic light turning red, quick shot of cars stopping Camera zooms into detailed highway map of United States Pans areas, most notably Poughkeepsie, New York VS cars driving on highways CU white-walled tire & wheel of red car driving on dirt road Sign: ROAD ENDS BRIDGE UNSAFE Shot of road from moving car - dirt road Sign: DEAD END STREET Shot of paved road from moving car Signs: ROAD REPAIRS AHEAD; ROAD CLOSED; SLOW; DIPS; DETOUR; NARROW ROAD; ROAD CLOSED; REPAIR SLOW ZONE 12:28:54:12 CU waving red flag MCU highway maintenance men working on road out of back of yellow pickup truck VS men working on dirt road - sweeping CU man leaning out car with cigarette hanging out of mouth 12:29:33:14 CU shovelful of black tar (looks like caviar) CU man's face leaning out car window CU Smoothing down black tar CU red flag CU yellow truck & orange tractor on road MCU white truck driving down road CU from back of 1 large tire of tractor VS tractor & white truck alternating until 2 vehicles meet on road 12:30:56:12 Yellow school bus enters from left VS schoolbus - opening doors, picking up kids, interior CU Main Street-type road; from window above street man peers out VS/CU Cars moving down street 12:31:53:11 CU adding machine Shot of parking lot MCU Man in window, sign: FREE PARKING Shot from above of town intersection CU cars driving through town VS of mother & young daughter in car, intercut with things they see - i.e. book return bin, fire hydrant, etc. Mother misses parking space; someone jumps in ahead of her 12:34:57:02 CU watch on wrist CU man's hand pressing car horn MCU back of produce truck VS produce market area with lots of vehicles (this is downtown San Francisco, in an area which is now known as the Golden Gateway or Embarcadero Center) CU flock of sheep, fades into traffic jam VS cars inching upward VS/CU individual faces of people caught in traffic jam (voiceover is all about their attempt to escape the troubles and anxieties of urban life by migrating to the suburbs, but they get caught in a perpetual traffic jam..."what's a citizen to do?") 12:37:17:18 Camera pans to headline for GM "Good Roads" Essay Contest VS literature on contest VS typewriters typing CU letters being poured out of mailbag LS B/W footage of man at podium before crowd, CUT TO man (Robert Moses, winner of contest) standing up as crowd applauds. He walks to podium CU Award to Robert Moses CU Moses speaking at podium VS roads & overpasses being built View from above of town with lots of cars 12:39:44:24 Camera pans row of orange parking meters MCU outside of tiered parking lot CU sign - MUNICIPAL PARKING MCU Parking lot (full) VS people working on road 12:40:30:11 View up at cars on overpass VS Cars driving, people sitting on promenade (Brooklyn Heights Promenade built over Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), various other buildings and facilities designed around the automobile Camera zooms up to toll booth of New Jersey Turnpike VS cars on turnpike AUTOMOBILES TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAYS ROADS STREETS TRAFFIC DRIVERS FANTASY ANIMALS FREEWAYS DRIVING CITIES RURAL AREAS SCENICS SKYLINES FRUSTRATION EMOTIONS HORNS GESTURES PARKING ECONOMICS HISTORY GENERAL MOTORS SHEEP MEN WOMEN CHILDREN DETROIT NEW YORK MICHIGAN General Motors Corp. (sponsor) Traffic (congestion) Traffic Congestion Urbanism Development Cities (U.S) Cities (U.S., aerials) Aerials (cities) Aerials (freeways) Freeways Bridges Roads Streets Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Brooklyn-Queens Expressway New Jersey Turnpike Los Angeles (freeways) "Stack, The" (Los Angeles) Chicago New York City Brooklyn, N.Y. Los Angeles, Calif. Moses, Robert Interstate highway system Highways Animation Tunnels Los Angeles (aerials) Parklabrea, Los Angeles, Calif. Maps Scenics Driving Roads (potholed) Roads (bad) Potholes Construction crews Workers (construction) Public works Infrastructure Traffic jams Sheep Surrealism <BR> United States 470 MovingImage 1954 08183 2008-01-18 21:59:17 ARossi tracey - this item may have been damaged on 2009-04-28 when 2 catalogd main processes ran simultaneously and is checking item