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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