The Seaboard Air Line Railroad presents a Dudley Pictures Corporation film, “New Horizons”, from 1948 produced and directed by Carl Dudley. The film promotes the growth of industry, agriculture, and railways along the southern seaboard in North America. It is photographed by Edwin Olsen and Edward Hutton, S.S.C., edited by Norman Suffern and Ernest Flook, and written by Herman Boxer.

Credentials (00:08). “New Horizons” title banner (00:16). Three young girls in dresses smelling flowers (00:33). A boy picking cotton (00:40). A beach (00:47). Blue Ridge Mountains (00:51). Statues and monuments on the Southern Seaboard (00:54). A statue of Princess Pocahontas (01:15), Captain John Smith (01:23), General George Washington (01:25), and Thomas Jefferson’s house (01:28). The Cape Henry Memorial (01:34). A young boy sitting in a tub of cotton (01:49). A group of people sitting in a garden having drinks (01:54). A floral landscape (02:09). A horse carriage riding through a village (02:16). A statue (02:19). A woman combing her hair (02:22). Another woman putting a flower behind her ear (02:28). Large chimneys (02:35). Pedestrians walking around (02:42). A carpenter sawing wood (03:05). A tractor on a field (03:10). A university campus (03:13). Bird’s-eye view of an urban area with a stadium (03:19). Footage of different things along the southern seaboard, including construction sites, agriculture, container transportation, and the seaboard railroad (03:25). The industry of natural resources, showing a quarry, the distribution of minerals, and the employees in said facilities (04:00). The agricultural industry, showing crops and forests (04:17). The Seaboard Railroad (04:29). Orange and grapefruit tree fields (04:39). The transportation of harvested fruit (04:55). Young girls eating the fruit (05:02). Watermelons are loaded for transportation (05:05). Other crops include bell peppers, tomatoes, and carrots (05:11). A man walking through a tobacco field (05:20). An agriculture auction (05:29). Barrels are rolled into a train car (05:44). Cigarettes are stacked at a factory (05:49). Livestock, including dairy cattle, herds for meatpacking, hogs, and poultry (06:01). A cotton field (06:25). The transportation of harvested cotton (06:38). Cotton-pickers working in the field (06:47). Scenes of industrial plants (06:59). The industrialization of raw materials including iron ore, coal, clay, cement, gravel, phosphate rock, granite, and limestone (07:15). Forests (08:01). Trees being cut down (08:14). Logs being cut and transported (08:23). A textile factory (09:00). A chemist mixing chemicals (09:15). A table set with plastic cutlery (09:22). Plastic used in cellophane and camera film (09:25). A woman trying on a suit (09:42). Crude gum is obtained from pine tree and separated from turpentine through the process of distilling (09:51). Trains driving on the Seaboard Airline railroad (10:20). A book titled “Daily American Railroads” (10:39). The first page shows the “Raleigh” 1836 locomotive (10:44). Trains driving on the Seaboard Airline railroad (10:55). A map highlighting the railway system’s main lines (11:19). Views from the capitals, seaports, the principal cities, and vacation resorts along the railway system (11:34). A train driving (11:43). The Prime F. Osborn III convention Center in Jacksonville (11:52). Commuters in a train station (11:58). A restaurant in a train car (12:01). A family playing chess in a train car (12:05). A freight train (12:09). A Silver Meteor passenger train introduced in 1939 as the first diesel powered streamliner between New York and Florida (12:37). Men working in loading, transit, and unloading of freight (13:10). An “Agricultural Department” sign (13:32). A corn field (13:38). An “Industrial Department” sign (13:54). Two men holding a blueprint (14:00). Views of the wood industry (14:08). Vacationers biking and strolling down a beach promenade (14:28), horseback riding (14:30), and golfing (14:35). Horse racing (14:41). Glass bottom boats (14:45). People swimming (14:50). The Fountain of Youth historical attraction in St. Augustine, Florida (15:10). A sailing boat (15:18). Waterskiing (15:27). An industrial plant (15:47). Young girls in dresses (16:04). A textile factory (16:13). Agriculture (16:20). Two chimneys (16:39). A beach (16:45). A forest (16:51). A cotton plantation (16:55). Views of cities, towns, villages, and countryside in the South (16:58). Trains driving (17:20). “The End” written on screen (17:38).