Summary

00:00:24;06 Launch of a 1950s era rocket at an unknown desert location. 00:02:59;08 Animation illustrates the James Watt early steam engine. Footage of an early B&O Baltimore and Ohio steam locomotive pulling two railroad passenger cars. Various steam locomotives, electric train, and diesel powered trains. CU image of a train engineer in the cab of a train locomotive. Point-of-view POV of train engineer as train travels down a single track railroad. 00:04:26;07 Animation illustrates early gasoline engine. An early automobile, man hand cranks early auto. Automobiles traveling on freeway or expressway in the mid-1950s. Various scenes of automobile and roadways. 00:05:17;18 Construction and industrial scenes; CU of a construction bucket as machine loads a dump truck, train pulling long line of open railroad cars, scene of a large industrial plant. Traffic in a large city. Low aerial view of a large railroad harbor terminal or switching yard. Ocean going cargo ships. O0:06:00;17 Street scenes of people, traffic, and buildings in a large American city in mid-1950s. Different modes of transportation in a large city, expressways, city bus transportation, city taxi cab service, elevated train service, subways, and commuter trains. Trucks and truck terminal in a large American city. 00:06:57;01 An approaching passenger train. Point-of-view POV of automobile driver as automobile passes through a highway tunnel. Point-of-view POV of train engineer as trail approaches a railroad bridge over water railroad bridge spanning a river or body of water. 00:07:51;18 Tug boat with with a backdrop of a city skyline of tall buildings in BG. Large ocean going ships. Activities on a passenger cruise ship in the 1950s. 00:08:26;22 A United Airlines UAL DC-6 passenger plane in flight, Mainliner 300. Passengers departing plane by mobile stairway on tarmac. 00:08:37;03 Rare historic footage of the Boeing 367-80 Stratoliner prototype Registered as N70700, the first of all Boeing jetliners. This aircraft was first flown on July 15, 1954. After serving as a testbed for a multitude of projects, it was retired to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center MASDC at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona in 1969. 00:08:56;12 An electric street car, a passenger train, a freight train, and a Dixie Highway Express truck. Automobile on a busy multi-lane city street. A tugboat, cargo ship, passenger ship, cargo ship and an atomic powered submarine running on the surface. Launch of a rocket from a desert location.

Source Bridgeman Images
Footage Number 6287337
Title Development Of Transportation
Description 00:00:24;06 Launch of a 1950s era rocket at an unknown desert location. 00:02:59;08 Animation illustrates the James Watt early steam engine. Footage of an early B&O Baltimore and Ohio steam locomotive pulling two railroad passenger cars. Various steam locomotives, electric train, and diesel powered trains. CU image of a train engineer in the cab of a train locomotive. Point-of-view POV of train engineer as train travels down a single track railroad. 00:04:26;07 Animation illustrates early gasoline engine. An early automobile, man hand cranks early auto. Automobiles traveling on freeway or expressway in the mid-1950s. Various scenes of automobile and roadways. 00:05:17;18 Construction and industrial scenes; CU of a construction bucket as machine loads a dump truck, train pulling long line of open railroad cars, scene of a large industrial plant. Traffic in a large city. Low aerial view of a large railroad harbor terminal or switching yard. Ocean going cargo ships. O0:06:00;17 Street scenes of people, traffic, and buildings in a large American city in mid-1950s. Different modes of transportation in a large city, expressways, city bus transportation, city taxi cab service, elevated train service, subways, and commuter trains. Trucks and truck terminal in a large American city. 00:06:57;01 An approaching passenger train. Point-of-view POV of automobile driver as automobile passes through a highway tunnel. Point-of-view POV of train engineer as trail approaches a railroad bridge over water railroad bridge spanning a river or body of water. 00:07:51;18 Tug boat with with a backdrop of a city skyline of tall buildings in BG. Large ocean going ships. Activities on a passenger cruise ship in the 1950s. 00:08:26;22 A United Airlines UAL DC-6 passenger plane in flight, Mainliner 300. Passengers departing plane by mobile stairway on tarmac. 00:08:37;03 Rare historic footage of the Boeing 367-80 Stratoliner prototype Registered as N70700, the first of all Boeing jetliners. This aircraft was first flown on July 15, 1954. After serving as a testbed for a multitude of projects, it was retired to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center MASDC at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona in 1969. 00:08:56;12 An electric street car, a passenger train, a freight train, and a Dixie Highway Express truck. Automobile on a busy multi-lane city street. A tugboat, cargo ship, passenger ship, cargo ship and an atomic powered submarine running on the surface. Launch of a rocket from a desert location.
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