This color educational film is about the Port Authority Of New York and was made in 1974.

Opening: No opening credits. A bridge into New York City, exterior of the Port Authority of NYC/NJ. A train races by, a shipyard, exterior JFK International Airport. Aerial shot of Manhattan Island with the World Trade Center towering above. Aerial shot of the Statue of Liberty. Long shot of the Statue of Liberty. A tugboat goes by Liberty Island. Close on a tugboat (:07-1:03). Inside the office of the Port Authority. JFK International Airport aerial shots. Close shots on planes lined up behind one another on the tarmac. A DC-10 and a 747 fly. A plane lands. People exit a gate and walk through the airport. A busy airport. People hug inside the airport. An airport worker chats with older patrons. Busy airport shots. Aerial shots of the JFK terminals. Nearby LaGuardia Airport. A plane lands at LaGuardia. Airtraffic control tower. Interior and exterior shots of LaGuardia airport. Newark International Airport. Aerial shots of Newark airport. Terminal interiors being worked on. Workers move wood. Inside the construction. More aerial shots of Newark airport. A car is loaded onto a cargo plane. Cargo is taken from an American Airlines flight (1:04-5:01). Slow moving traffic on a curve in NYC. Traffic moves through tolls getting into NYC. Toll worker takes the fee to cross the bridge. Cars go through the tolls. Cars go through tunnels. Videocameras can see traffic and problems in the tunnels. Numerous cars and trucks drive in the tunnel. Two level George Washington Bridge. Only 14 lane suspension bridge. Lots of traffic on the GW. The Bayonne Bridge, an arch bridge spanning the Kill Van Kull connecting Bayonne, New Jersey with Staten Island, New York. It carries both New York State Route 440 and New Jersey Route 440. It’s the fifth-longest steel arch bridge in the world (5:02-6:11). PATH, a Rapid rail line, moves down the tracks. Jersey City will house the headquarters of the PATH system. a small model is shown of what it will look like. Exterior shots of NYC with the World Trade Center in the distance. World Trade Center PATH center, a train stops, people leave. People take an escalator to the concourse in the WTC and all major subway lines (6:12-7:23). Aerial Liberty Island shot, WTC in the background. World Trade Center shots. Inside the twin towers. Office workers. A worker prints something in an office. WTC has product display areas for many countries. World Trade Institute has a curriculum. Exterior of the US Custom house. Exterior of the World Trade Center. Views from atop the WTC, see a lot of Manhattan from high atop. (7:24-9:35). Port Authority bus terminal exterior and interior shots. Busses drive fast down the highways. Painting of the expansion for the bus terminal. The Manhattan approach to the George Washington Bridge, the GW bus station. Closed circuit television shows your bus arriving (9:36-10:42). Giant ships on the high seas. Brooklyn waterfront where ships are all parked. Aerial shots of the port. Brooklyn port. Queen Elizabeth 2. Construction, workers build a port for a new, expanded Midtown Manhattan terminal. Paintings show the new terminal and how it will look and what it will contain, including 3 modernized piers. Newark Bay, Port Newark has been expanded. Ships parked. Cargo is moved on the dock. Cars drive off of a ship. Aerial shots of cars. Containers are brought to port by a giant ship. Containers are moved from trucks right to the ship and vice versa. Containers are moved by cranes (10:43-13:43). A tugboat in front of the World Trade Center at dusk. Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island. Bridge in NYC. Cars pass through a tunnel as does a subway. Cars and buses drive through nighttime NYC. Airport at night. George Washington Bridge at night. World Trade Center, lit like a Christmas tree, at night (13:44-14:45). Fade to black, no end credits (14:46-14:50).

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