XD8873 " Megalopolis: Cradle of the Future " 1962 EB Educational Film on the Social Conditions of the Northeastern Seaboard's Urban Sprawl - PeriscopeFilm

XD8873 ” Megalopolis: Cradle of the Future ” 1962 EB Educational Film on the Social Conditions of the Northeastern Seaboard’s Urban Sprawl

EB-Meg/calo Police, “Distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica International Ltd. London”, 1962, Eastman color? Pink fade

“Produced in collaboration with the Twentieth Century Fund and based on the Fund’s survey, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States… Describes the densely populated area extending from New Hampshire to Virginia that is characterized by intense economic activity and educational and cultural preeminence. Points out the problems of transportation, air polution, provision of tax-supported municipal services to non-resident workers, overlapping governmental units, and meeting the needs for more schools and parks. The choice for the area is chaos or betterment. Megalopolis is ‘truly our modern frontier'”

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