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Ephemeral film · 21 min

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A peek into Depression-era life in the Ohio river valley. Opens with scenes filmed in a Coca Cola bottling plant showing uniformed workers preparing product for shipment. Quiet main streets, neighborhood stores and run-down service stations follow, focusing on local advertisements and billboards. With children in a general store gazing at a glass case of candy, people lunching at a barbecue spot, and white jacketed soda jerks at a drugstore lunch counter. With a long sequence showing an…

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21 minutes

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