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This derivative compilation of public domain U.S. Government video is Copyright (c) 2020 - Jeffrey Jones
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Over 170 minutes (over 3 1/2 hours) - seven (7) highest quality sources for these particular films available publicly - encoded to two (2) quality Verbatim blank DVDs - 100% guaranteed to work. Please see my 100% response!!
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CONTENTS
Included Films:
1. This Is My Railroad (1940s, color)
Southern Pacific Railroad
This film was edited and partly directed by Russel Meyer. After serving in the Army during WW2 as a photographer he was hired by Gene Walker to make his first foray into motion pictures with this promotional film for Union Pacific.
2. Wheels A-Rolling: 100 Years of Railroad Progress (1948, color)
Chicago Railroad Fair
Documentation of pageant at Chicago Railroad Fair (1948).
3. Mainline U.S.A. (1957, color)
Dudley Pictures Corporation
Railroad film with many images with shots of the American landscape. Photographer: Edwin E. Olsen. Narrator: Art Gilmore. Editor: Ernst Flook. Music: Howard Jackson. Writer: Herman Boxer and Carl Dudley.
4. The Last Clear Chance (1959, color)
Wondsel, Carlisle & Dunphy, Inc.
This engaging Kodachrome drama (formatted for television broadcast) from the Union Pacific ostensibly deals with safety at railroad grade crossings, but it's also about much more: youth's feeling of invulnerability; the highway patrolman as an authority figure; the look of the rural and urban West in the late 1950s; the urge to speed through a sparsely populated agricultural landscape; and the train's role as farmer's servant and potential killer.
5. New Horizons (1948, color)
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
The "story of a new South whose roots are embedded deep in the honored tradition of the old." Shows the economy of the Southeast, white and African American workers, cities, and daily life, all in the context of railroad business and operations. Producer and Director: Carl Dudley. Script: Herman Boxer.
6. Big Trains Rolling (1955, color)
Association of American Railroads
This film is all about railroads and how they keep the U.S. economy rolling.
7. Technicolor for Industrial Films (1949, color)
Technicolor Corporation
A film promoting use of Technicolor process to industrial film producers. Includes a nice locomotive scene.
