1960s TRANSPORTATION BY TRUCK & TRAIN SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD 13324
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This color educational film shows how products are made in one area and brought to another by trucks and trains. There is no copyright at the beginning or end of the film so the date of the production remains unclear however based on research this is circa the late 1960s.
No opening titles. A tank railroad car is shown. A refrigerator car is shown. Men round up cattle. A truck trailer is shown for Southern Pacific. Freight cars for a railroad go by. A map of the USA is shown, first Buffalo, NY then Portland, OR. A room is shown, furniture is there and then slowly goes away, rugs fold up and chairs leave, the room is now bare (:06-2:38). Trains and trucks on the move followed by a ship and then an airplane. Horse and wagon is shown. A man pushes a chair by wheelbarrow and on his head by hand (2:39-3:27). A truck moves logs out of the forest. A box is placed onto a freighter and brought to a store. A truck delivers a desk to a house. A train slowly goes down the tracks. Close up of the train tracks as a train moves, POV from the train's eyes (3:28-4:30). A map of the USA which shows where a lot of the main train tracks are located. This then dissolves into highways and then streets showing that trucks can take over from the trains to get to your hometown. Tractor trailer truck goes down the highway. A trailer backs up into a spot. Men remove furniture from a truck. Food truck, cement truck, automobile carrying truck (4:31-6:26). A truck drops dirt at a construction site. A gas truck supplies gas to a gas station. A milk truck and a milkman on delivery. Various trucks go by (6:27-7:12). furniture appears, via stop motion photography, into a room. Rugs and clothes appear (7:13-7:45). Train sits idle on the tracks, another moves down the track. Long shot held on moving freight train. Back to the room where it is bare and then full (7:46-8:33). End credits (8:34-8:40).
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The most interesting thing about this partial film (which is missing the first several minutes; possibly the first reel) is the number of companies that were common in those days but now no longer exist.
Loved seeing the P.I.E. Kenworth needle noses!
That Jeep based belt loader at 2:52 was pretty cool!
Germans proved you can load more then cattle onto those train cars......
Where is Tommy? I was waiting to see how he liked his new room.
I'm almost certain this wasn't a railroad produced movie. The title screens are missing, but the narration and pace are typical of the Encyclopedia Britannica educational films of the 50's and 60's. I watched what seem to me now to be hundreds of these when I was in school. The newest vehicles are the 1961 Chevys being loaded on the transport truck, so I'd guess 1961 to 1962 as the movie's date. None of the railroad locomotives are newer than a GP-9, so that would also put the movie around 1960. No railroad would have permitted so many trucks to be shown, and an SP produced film would't have allowed the UP and ATSF locomotives to be in the film. Even the freight car with Bobby's stuff would have been a brand new SP box car, not a beat up old Reading car. I'll bet a Trump Buck this was an EB film. :-)
Sar Jim who gives two shits who made it. Just watch it and take from it what you will. You putting to much energy into an educational short made decades ago.
GP9s were built about 1954. Based on your analysis I think 1960 is about right. Definitely not a railroad produced film
@@rapman5363 Encyclopedia Britanica did indeed make a good educational film in 1954 called THD FREIGHT TRAIN and it was revised in the 1970s. This looks like something from Coronet Films
The end title states Churchill Films, an educational distributor of the 1960s.
@@rapman5363 Your response suggests you should watch the following educational film, "Remedial English Composition for the Behaviorally Challenged".
So cool to watch! Thanks!
Just retired from a freight company! No more busy wheels for me! The end!
Nice
Pfffft. Doc Brown's locomotive can go anywhere when it travels in the air.
the narator has done many films he even was the criminal nagler in the original dragnet movie
I was comfortable up until all that furniture started moving around on its own. Poltergeist. Scary.
It was like watching Bewitched!
I thought that tank cars carried tanks, and refrigerator cars carried refrigerators. And flat cars carry shoes?
They carry punctured tires....😁
Was this film censored for our protection or are there just big empty holes in it?
This appears to be the second half of some educational film; the front seems to have been lost. As to the gaps in the film, that is the result of "splices". This film (probably in 16mm) was an educational film, probably shown in some school district. It was loaned out from the film library to various classes over many years, and shown many times. Film projectors (especially when operated incorrectly) were very hard on the film, and could easily break it. When the film broke, usually one or more frames of the image would be lost. Sometimes the film would tear lengthwise, and if not caught quickly you could lose several feet of film. The broken film would be cut cleanly between frames, and the ends spliced together with glue or tape. This resulted in a skip in the film image, and a skip in the audio offset by about half a second. A splice could be fragile if poorly made, and it was common for a jam to occur on a splice. So you could get several splices close together. The result was the hash that you saw.
I don't want to get derailed here with comments.
Think of it more of being side-tracked...
I take it this film was made for primary school children. Gee, even teachers today dont know what trains are!
Now show us how much stuff in the bedroom was made in the U.S.
Absolutely NOTHING!
When this was made, probably almost all of it.
@@Aviation.Safety. Well, be glad they do. If they didn't, you wouldn't be wearing any clothes, because those are imported from the same place.
So.... let's change the question at 1:45 to ask "what if we removed everything from Tommy's room that was made in China?" I think the result would be the same... except the wood for the lamp would still have come from the USA... and it would have exported to China to be made into the lamp stand....
Im a railroader and we hate trucks
Too damn trucks on the interstate highways anyway
Frieght by rail is way better. All these customers need box car service but all i see is old tracks and out of service tracks that are abandon
@@TheCaptainD44 we lost our railroad in 1994, victim of the 1993 floods, and every grain kernel has to be shipped out by truck, constantly having roads getting resurfaced
Narration for kindergartners
Kindergartners were rarely shown films in school in those days. This was probably for something around the 3rd or 4th grade, that is usually about when schools talked about the transportation and infrastructure system.