Synopsis
This Moving World” (c.1940) is a black-and-white Fisher Body Division of General Motor Corporation promotional film produced by Wilding Picture. A screenplay by Al Weeks, the film discusses the “business of going places” and traces the development of transportation from the Stone Age to Charles Lindbergh’s historic nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and into “Present Day.” Film opens, title page/ opening credits ( 0:10 ). Montage various modes of transport like automobiles, large passenger ships, trains, planes, bridges ( 0:40 ). Mechanics working on engines/ other contraptions, boy meets with uncle who works at shop to discuss automobile body he designed for contest; Boy ponders history of transportation ( 1:17 ). Two “cavemen” from Stone Age struggle to move large rock, stumble upon invention of the wheel ( 2:55 ). “Present day,” uncle pulls out book from drawer “An Outline History of Transportation from 1400 B.C.” by Archibald L. Bouton ( 6:55 ). Other historical examples of wheel/ modes of transport by land among other cultures relying on animals/ humans to transport goods i.e. what appear to be Indian dockworkers carrying dry goods on head, donkeys, elephants sort through wood logs, men traverse desert landscape on camels, nomad family transport home with camels through Mongolian desert, Roman-style chariot ( 7:46 ). Transport by water i.e. men stand on simple log rafts in river, kayak battles white waters, Egyptian Felucca, Greek and Roman warships called…
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Details
- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Stock Footage