Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology. Charts the progress of science and technology in the United States during the 1920s: automobiles, aviation, radios, telephones, milk production, home appliances, etc.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
DO NOT USE Opening Titles
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
TLSs urban streets congested by too many Ford Model A, Packard cars and stakebed trucks. Panning LS Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan, long queue of visitors entering for walking tour of facilities; TLS tour group entering building. Great MS/TLSs Ford employees constructing cars on assembly line. MS tour group exiting building. Traveling shots Ford plant. MS tour group on tour bus circling Ford plant. LS/TLSs steamstacks at plant. TLS people getting off tour bus. TLS crowded city street.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
DO NOT USE Still photos
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
TLS small trucks on rough country road. Fantastic road construction montage: MS/TLSs construction workers paving roads in countryside, using steam shovels, horse-drawn carts, shovels, steamroller, brooms, etc.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Great montage of extensive hydroelectric dam construction, ending with interior & exterior shots of finished, fully functional hydroelectric dams in operation.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
Excellent montage of Western Electric company workers (linemen) laying & installing telephone cable under, on and above ground. MS telephone operators working switchboard.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
DO NOT USE Stills of people-- including President Herbert Hoover -- listening to crystal set radios through headphones, then through gramophones & tube radio sets. Stills of early television broadcast productions & receiving equipment.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
MS interior of a refrigerated milk truck, blast of cold air shooting over stacks of empty glass milk bottles. MS/TLSs milk production: filling station, glass milk bottles being filled; date stamping, stacking crates; manually milking cows. MS milkman opening residential service door, replacing empty milk bottle w/ full one. MSs fat happy babies.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
DO NOT USE Stills of early refrigerators in kitchens. Illustrated print ads of happy families eating well, eating marketed products.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
TLS United States Postal Service truck pulling up to curb, postal worker getting out. MSs postman (mailman, mail man) delivering mail to doorstep, ringing bell, woman getting mail. MS elderly white man depositing Air Mail into slot. MSs postal workers sorting mail with help of early automation. TLS U.S. Mail truck at Ford Airport. TLS/LSs early air mail monoplanes (sponsored by Ford Motor Company) taking off; MSs air mail pilot alighting plane, posing for cam. MSs wealthy white people boarding a small commercial airline plane. MSs propeller spinning. TLSs Ford monoplane taxiing, taking off. MSs airline passengers sitting in wicker chairs aboard plane, looking out windows, includes one shot of elderly man who may very well be oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. Air to air shots of early commercial plane in flight.