1900-1969AUTOMOTIVE
CU OF HORSE'S FEET PULLING WAGON. WAGON GOING THRU MUD. CARRIAGE DRIVING AWAY. GOES UP TO FARMHOUSE. MAN WITH AX. HANGING LAUNDRY. CHILDREN RUNNING UP TO FARMHOUSE. COLONIAL TIMES. PREACHER LEAVES CHURCH. TRAIN STATION. CONDUCTOR LOOKS AT POCKET WATCH. TRAIN TRACKS GOING OFF INTO DISTANCE. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY STREETCARS, CITY STREETS. FIREMEN SLIDE DOWN POLE. FIRE WAGON. STATUE OF LIBERTY. CAMELS. BEACH. BASEBALL PARK. KIDS PLAYING IN FIRE HYDRANT WATER. BICYCLE RIDING. MAN FALLS OFF BICYCLE. BICYCLE WHEEL. EARLY CAR BEING CONSTRUCTED. SAILCAR. EARLY ENGINE. RACE CAR. STREET CLEANER. HORSES. FORD CARS BEING CONSTRUCTED. ASSEMBLY LINE. FAMILY GETS INTO CAR. GIRLS BOUNCE IN BACK SEAT. SIGN WITH CITY NAMES ALL OVER IT. RURAL STREET. CARS IN REDWOOD FOREST. PEOPLE PICKING FLOWERS. GUY WITH PICNIC BASKET. PEOPLE RUNNING DOWN BEACH. CAR DRIVING SNOW. CAR DRIVING ON RAILROAD TRACKS. MOTORCYCLE COPS CHASING CAR. CIRCA 1915-25. FACTORY. HOT MOLTON METAL. BIG MACHINES. HENRY FORD. HOME MOVIES. ICE SKATING. TRACTOR. PEOPLE DANCING A BABY. DIGGING WITH CHILDREN. CAMPING. TENT. WASHING FACES. WASHING UP AT STREAM. AMUSEMENT PARK RIDES. ARMY JEEP. WAR FOOTAGE. BOMBS BEING DROPPED FROM PLANE. NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. HIGHWAYS. AERIAL VIEW. BRIDGES. TRACTOR IN FIELD. PLANTATION-LIKE HOUSE. SCHOOL CHILDREN GETTING OFF BUS AT SCHOOL. CONSTRUCTION WORKER IN HARD HAT DRIVING CAR. MUSTANG. POV OFF A CLIFF. POV OF CAR DRIVING ON BRIDGE. FORD SYMBOL.
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| 00:52:37 14.4 |
CU WHEELS OF WAGON AND HOOVES OF HORSE PULLING THE WAGON ON COUNTRY DIRT ROAD. WELL DRESSED MAN AND WOMAN IN TURN OF CENTURY DRESS SIT IN BACK AS PASSENGERS, ON 2 HOUR RIDE TO TRAIN STATION FOR TRIP TO CITY WHERE THEY INTEND TO LIVE.
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| 00:53:30 67.4 |
MAN WITH AX STOPS CHOPPING WOOD TO WATCH CARRIAGE PASS BY. WOMAN HANGES CLOTHING ON OUTSIDE CLOTHES LINE.
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| 00:53:46 83.4 |
CARRIAGE PASSES OLD SCHOOLHOUSE WHERE COUPLE IN CARRIAGE WENT TO WHEN THEY WERE KIDS. HE CHECKS VEST POCKET WATCH. 2 BOYS RUM TO AND ENTER FARM HOUSE.
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| 00:54:23 120.4 |
WOMAN SEES OFF DOCTOR ON PORCH OF HOUSE AFTER HIS VISIT. HE LEAVES IN HIS HORSE AND BUGGY.
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| 00:54:53 150.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS TRAIN STATION. GROUP ARRIVES AT STATION. IS MET BY CONDUCTOR WHO TAGS THEIR LUGGAGE BEFORE MAN REMOVES IT FROM HORSE AND CARRIAGE. BOTH HE AND CONDUCTOR LOOK AT THEIR POCKET WATCHES.
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| 00:55:47 204.4 |
SHOT OF TRAIN TRACKS GOING OFF IN THE DISTANCE
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| 00:55:59 216.4 |
MONTAGE - GOOD SHOTS EARLY CENTURY BUSTLING CITY LIFE (NEW YORK). HORSE AND CARRIAGES, BUSINESS DISTRICT, TENEMENT HOUSES.
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| 00:56:03 220.4 |
GOOD SHOTS EARLY CENTURY DRESS. WELL-DRESSED MEN WEARING DERBY HATS, WOMEN WITH LONG DRESSES, FLOWERING HATS, BOY SELLING NEWSPAPERS ON STREET CORNER, STREETCAR WITH "BROADWAY" WRITTEN ON ITS SIDE.PASSES BY
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| 00:56:25 242.4 |
POLICEMAN PLACES CALL TO FIRE DEPARTMENT OVER CORNER CALL BOX.
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| 00:56:29 246.4 |
GREAT SHOTS FIREMEN IN LONG UNDERWEAR, JUMPING OUT OF BEDS AT FIRE HOUSE, SLIDING DOWN POLE, MANNING THEIR HORSE DRIVEN FIRE ENGINES.
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| 00:56:41 258.4 |
PEOPLE GET OUT OF THE WAY AS HORSE DRIVEN FIRE ENGINES GALLOP DOWN CITY STREET.
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| 00:56:52 269.4 |
MONTAGE - SHOTS OF BUSTLING CITY STREETS WITH BOYS PLAYING STICK BALL, CROWDS AT STREET CORNERS CROSSING COBBLESTONE STREETS, PUSH CARTS,TROLLEY CARS, ELEVATED SUBWAY TRAIN
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| 00:57:16 293.4 |
GREAT SHOTS TURN OF CENTURY CROWDS GATHER OUTSIDE BASEBALL STADIUM WITH SIGN "BASEBALL TODAY" "NEW YORK VS CHICAGO"
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| 00:57:25 302.4 |
AMUSEMENT PARK (CONEY ISLAND ?) , PEOPLE CROWDING ONTO ROLLER COASTER, SHOOT THE SHOOT AND OTHER RIDES.
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| 00:57:40 317.4 |
MONTAGE CROWDS ON BEACH (CONEY ISLAND ?) IN COVER0ALL TYPE BATHING SUITS OF EARLY TIMES.
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| 00:57:49 326.4 |
CITY KIDS COOLING OFF UNDER FIRE HYDRANT.
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| 00:58:02 339.4 |
MEN, WOMEN, IN EARLY CENTURY DRESS RIDE BICYCLES ALONG COUNTRY ROADS. MAN FALLS OFF BIKE ON COUNTRY ROAD, OTHERS STOP TO HELP. ZOOM IN ON BICYCLE WHEEL (VOICE OVER "THE BICYCLE WHEEL HAD A GREATER DESTINY"
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| 00:58:49 386.4 |
CU BICYCLE WHEEL IN DETROIT WORK SHOP, BEING WORKED ON MAN CALLED HENRY FORD, WHO IS BUILDING HIS "QUADRICYCLE".
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| 00:59:10 407.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS REENACTMENT OF FORD BUILDING HIS QUADRICYCLE WHICH IS POWERED BY GASOLINE ENGINE HE BUILT HIMSELF.
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| 00:59:39 436.4 |
MS "FORD" PUSHES HIS CARRIAGE OUT OF GARAGE AT NIGHT, TO TRY IT OUT ON THE EMPTY, QUIET, COBBLESTONE STREETS..
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| 01:01:01 518.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS MEN (WHO HAD THE COURAGE TO DRIVE THEM) RIDE IN EARLY FORD MODEL CARS. CAR STALLS, MEN GET OUT TO LOOK UNDER THE HOOD.
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| 01:01:30 547.4 |
2 MEN AND WOMAN RIDE IN SAIL POWERED CAR, WICH REACHES 50 MPH.
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| 01:01:46 563.4 |
MONTAGE CU REENACTMENT FORD, OTHERS, WORKING, ON LARGER GASOLINE ENGINE, PUTTING IT INTO RACING CAR CALLED THE "999".IT WAS THE FORERUNNER OF CARS TO COME.
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| 01:02:26 603.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS THE "999" RACE CAR BEING TESTED ON TRACK. IT SET WORLD RECORD FOR SPEED FOR YEARS TO COME. A MILE A MINUTE.
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| 01:02:42 619.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS CITY TRAFFIC WITH CARS BEING A MORE FREQUENT SIGHT. BY 1903 THERE WERE MORE THAN 1000 MANUFACTURES IN THE U. S. IN THAT YEAR THE "FORD MOTOR COMPANY" WAS FOUNDED .
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| 01:03:15 652.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS MAN DRIVING THE 39 MPH MODEL "A" FORD. COST $850.("A OT OF MONEY FOR THOSE DAYS").
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| 01:03:23 660.4 |
MAN IN MODEL A FORD DRIVES UP TO COUPLE (EARLY CENTURY DRESS) WAITING AT ENTRANCE TO MANSION. CAR STALLS JUST AS THEY ARE GETTING IN. DRIVER GETS OUT, TO CRANK START THE ENGINE. (CRANK IS LOCATED ON SIDE OF CAR.
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| 01:03:51 688.4 |
AFTER STARTING THE CAR DRIVER GETS IN, BUT THE COUPLE WERE NOT "DARING ENOUGH" TO DO SAME. HE RIDES OFF WITHOUT THEM.
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| 01:04:10 707.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS FARMER WITH HIS HORSE OUTSIDE BARN, WATCHES EARLY CENTURY CARS PASS BY ON FARM ROAD. "THEY WERE FOR CITY PEOPLE, NOT FOR HIM". MECHANICAL CONTRAPTIONS SEEMED OUT OF PLACE IN THE COUNTRY.
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| 01:04:36 733.4 |
ONE DAY FRIEND IN CAR DRIVES UP TO FARMER. FARMER LOOKS OVER CAR. FRIEND SHOWS HOW IT WORKS. FARMER IS IMPRESSED UNTIL HE LEARNS IT COSTS $850.
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| 01:07:59 936.4 |
BACK IN DETROIT FORD TRIES TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PRODUCE CARS AT A LOWER PRICE . VARIOUS SHOTS MEN IN FORD SHOP WORKING ON CARS. EACH MAN WORKED ON A CAR UNTIL IT WAS FINISHED.
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| 01:08:07 944.4 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS SHOWING HOW FORD DEVELOPED THE "ASSEMBLY LINE". WHICH STARTED WITH A BURLY MAN PULLING A CAR FROM STATION TO STATION, WITH A ROPE AND FINALLY ON CONVEYOR BELTS.
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| 01:08:48 985.4 |
MONTAGE THE ASSEMBLY LINE IN ACTION. THE CARS BEGAN TO COME OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE AT RATE OF 1 EVERY 49 SECONDS. NOW EVERYBODY CAN HAVE ONE AT A LOWER PRICE. ($350) .
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| 01:09:14 1011.4 |
NEW (MODEL "T" ?) CARS DRIVING OUT OF FORD PLANT.
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| 01:09:34 1031.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS FAMILY AND LIVELY KIDS JUMP INTO BACK SEAT OF MODEL 'T', FOR RIDE , (WHICH BECAME A NATIONAL PASS TIME). DAD CRANKS IT UP AS TEEN SON CREATES THE SPARK FROM THE DRIVING WHEEL..
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| 01:10:24 1081.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS FAMILY RIDING ON 1 LANE DIRT ROAD THROUGH COUNTRY SIDE, UNTIL THEY MET ANOTHER CAR COMING THE OPPOSITE WAY. CAUSING THEM TO BACK UP AND MAKE ROOM.
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| 01:10:58 1115.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS, CARS RIDING ON BUMPY AND MUDDY ROADS. TRUCK GETTING STUCK IN MUD, UNTIL THEY STARTED TO MAKE THE ROADS BETTER. MONTAGE WORKERS BUILDING ROADS FROM COAST TO COAST..
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| 01:11:44 1161.4 |
ABOVE VIEW CARS RIDING ON NEW ROADS, WIDE ENOUGH FOR TWO CARS GOING EACH WAY. CITY PEOPLE START RIDING TO THE COUNTRY AND FARM PEOPLE START RIDING INTO THE CITY. WHOLE SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY BEGAN TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH EACH OTHER.
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| 01:12:28 1205.4 |
CITY MAN, LOST IN COUNTRY, STOPS TO READ ROAD SIGNS. CAN'T MAKE THEM OUT. FARMER RIDES UP IN HIS MODEL 'T', GIVES INSTRUCTIONS, MAKING THINGS MORE COMPLICATED..
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| 01:13:17 1254.4 |
MS 2 WOMEN DO STREET CORNER FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SHOPPING IN CITY, CLIMB INTO THEIR MODEL 'T' AND DRIVE OFF.
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| 01:13:35 1272.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS PEOPLE SHOPPING, DOCTOR MAKING HOME VISITS IN HIS MODEL 'T. ' SAVING TIME, SPEEDED UP BUSINESS. VARIOUS SHOTS MODEL T'S FILLING UP AT GAS STATIONS.
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| 01:13:58 1295.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS PEOPLE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY. "NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEOPLE TO TRAVEL INEXPENSIVELY AROUND THE IR OWN COUNTRY IN THEIR OWN CARS.
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| 01:14:36 1333.4 |
MAN VISITING NATIONAL PARK IN MODEL 'T', FEEDS BABY BEARS FROM HIS CAR. FAMILIES CAMPING, HAVING PICNICS IN PARKS, GETTING AWAY FROM HEAT IN CITIES. THEIR MODEL 'T' ALWAYS NEARBY.
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| 01:15:06 1363.4 |
MONTAGE PEOPLE ENJOYING, PICNICKING, ON BEACH, DOING THINGS THEY COULD NEVER DO WITHOUT THE MOTOR CAR. 2 LITTLE KIDS EXPLORING, ENJOYING BEACH, SURF.
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| 01:16:08 1425.4 |
MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS MODEL 'T' TRAVELLING IB SNOW, ON BRIDGES, MODEL 'T' RIDING ON RAILROAD TRACK TOWARDS CAMERA. RIDING ATOP HUGE CROSS COUNTRY PIPE (OIL ?).
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| 01:16:22 1439.4 |
(MOVIE SCENE) POLICEMAN TRYING TO STOP SPEEDING MODEL 'T' IS ALMOST BOWLED OVER. GETS ON HIS MOTORCYCLE, JOINED BY 2ND MOTORCYCLE COP. CHASES CAR OVER ROADS AND COUNTRYSIDE BEFORE FINALLY STOPPING IT. ON HILLY ROAD.
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| 01:16:55 1472.4 |
AS POLICEMEN PHYSICALLY PULL MAN OUT OF CAR, THE CAR STARTS TO ROLL DOWN HILLY ROAD, MAN RUNS AFTER IT, PHYSICALLY STOPS IT. HE GETS BACK IN AND SUCCESSFULLY EVADES POLICEMEN.
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| 01:17:21 1498.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS LARGE FACTORY BUILDINGS WITH TALL SMOKING SMOKE STACKS. SPARKS FLYING FROM BLAST FURNACE.. MACHINES MASS PRODUCING CAR PART..
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| 01:17:50 1527.4 |
GOOD SHOTS LONG LINE OF CAR BODIES MOVE TO ASSEMBLY LINES, THERE THE WORKERS ATTACK THEM TO CHASSIS.
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| 01:18:01 1538.4 |
CU VARIOUS SHOTS FORD FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM, ZOOM IN FORD WALKING DOWN WALK TOWARDS CAMERA. WALKING WITH WIFE SARA IN GARDEN, LAUGHING WITH FRIEND OVER CARTOON..
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| 01:18:34 1571.4 |
FORD ICE SKATES ON ICE COVERED POND WITH GRAND KIDS. FORD TINKERING WITH STEAM ENGINE.
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| 01:19:05 1602.4 |
FORD RIDING FARM TRACTOR. FORD IN OFFICE HAVING CONFERENCE. FORD AND FAMILY MEMBERS TAKE OFF IN CARS FOR CROSS COUNTRY TRIPS (AN ADVENTURE IN THOSE DAYS).
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| 01:19:41 1638.4 |
FORD DOING COUNTRY DANCE WITH WIFE.. FORD POSES, PLAYS WITH GRANDCHILDREN, INCLUDING HENRY FORD II. FORD TAKES RIDE IN OLD QUADRICYCLE WITH WIFE SARAH..
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| 01:20:49 1706.4 |
FORD CAMPING WITH OLD FRIENDS, INCLUDING EDISON AND OTHER GREAT INNOVATORS,
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| 01:22:03 1780.4 |
FORD , EDISON AND OTHERS WHO MADE LIFE BETTER FOR US, SIT AROUND LARGE DINNER TABLE EATING.
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| 01:22:12 1789.4 |
FORD SPEAKS INTO EAR OF THE DEAF EDISON.
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| 01:22:58 1835.4 |
BUSTLING CITY SHOTS WITH HEAVY CAR TRAFFIC, MODEL T, TROLLEY CARS , PEDESTRIANS. WELL DRESSED WOMAN ENTERS NEW LINCOLN LIMO AT ENTRANCE TO MANSION. LIMO PASSES MODEL T MAKING IT LOOK LIKE A COUNTRY COUSIN.
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| 01:23:54 1891.4 |
SHOT OF MODEL ,T, BEING ASSEMBLED. IN MAY 1927, THE 15 MILLIONTH MODEL 'T' CAME OFF ASSEMBLY LINE. HENRY FORD DECIDED TO STOP PRODUCING IT.
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| 01:24:12 1909.4 |
VARIOUS SHOTS OLD FLIVERS, MODEL T BEING TOWED AWAY ON TRUCKS. TAKEN APART AT PLANT, DISASSEMBLED AND CRUSHED. NEW MODELS WERE BUILT.
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| 01:25:28 1985.4 |
MONTAGE ROARING TWENTIES, SPINNING CAR WHEELS SUPERIMPOSED OVER PEOPLE DANCING THE CHARLESTON, ETC.. CAR STYLES CHANGING WITH THE TIMES.
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| 01:26:03 2020.4 |
TWO ARMY MEN RIDING IN JEEP OVER ROUGH TERRAIN. VARIOUS WW2 WAR SCENES.. BOMBERS DROPPING BOMBS, BATTLESHIPS FIRING CANNON, ETC.
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| 01:26:35 2052.4 |
LS ATOM BOMB EXPLOSION RESULTING IN MUSHROOM CLOUD.
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| 01:26:54 2071.4 |
CU MODERN WHITE WALL TIRE ON CAR SPINNING. MONTAGE ABOVE VIEWS MODERN AMERICAN HIGHWAYS AND ROADS. JAMMED WITH TRAFFIC. SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACROSS RIVER.
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| 01:27:36 2113.4 |
MODERN 1960S AMERICAN CAR RIDING ON HIGHWAY THROUGH COUNTRYSIDE. LS TRACTOR IN FIELD, CAR PASSES BOY RIDING N HIS TOY CAR ON SIDEWALK. VAR PULLS INTO DRIVEWAY OF SUBURBAN HOME.
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| 01:28:06 2143.4 |
LS SCHOOL COMPLEX. CHILDREN EXITING BUSES. HARDHAT WORKMAN BEHIND HIS WHEEL ARIVES AT WORK IN HIS CAR. HE NOW DRIVES TO WORK.
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| 01:28:31 2168.4 |
WOMAN LOADS GROCERIES IN BACK OF STATION WAGON. LS HIGH RISE HOUSING PROJECTS.
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| 01:29:01 2198.4 |
MODERN AUTO PASSES MODEL T FORD ON HIGHWAY.
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| 01:29:46 2243.4 |
FORD LOGO SUPER-IMPOSED OVER BRIDGE ROADWAY.
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