Esso Promotional Film Meet North Carolina Travelogue 68034 (1946)

Synopsis

This 1946 color travelogue film about North Carolina was presented by the Esso Standard Oil Company and is a John Bransby Production. Scenes of the Blue Ridge Parkway include three 1946 Dodge Deluxe cars (:45- 1:17 ). A 1946 Ford Super Deluxe convertible drives down the winding curves ( 1:18 - 2:43 ). An animated map is shown ( 2:44 - 3:29 ). A play is reenacted on Roanoke Island ( 3:30 - 4:40 ). Bath was the first permanent settlement ( 4:41 - 4:53 ). The University of North Carolina opened in 1725, with its old well meeting place ( 4:54 - 5:23 ). A pylon on Kill Devil Hills marks the Wright Brothers flight ( 5:24 - 5:40 ). The State Capital building is shown ( 5:41 - 5:57 ). A street car trolley moves through Greensboro ( 5:58 - 6:18 ). Tobacco cities are Winston-Salem and Durham, home of Duke University ( 6:19 - 6:42 ). A ship moves through Wilmington Harbor. Asheville, located between two mountain ranges, has the Biltmore House chateau ( 6:43 - 7:30 ). A tourist takes out a cigarette and lights it ( 7:31 - 7:53 ). African American and white sharecroppers gather tobacco leaves, lash them to stakes to dry, then in a barn to cure. Once golden, they are taken to market. The auctioneer is heard auctioning off the leaves, which are then processed ( 7:54 - 10:17 ). A machine rolls the cigarettes and a woman gathers them off a moving conveyer ( 10:18 - 10:55 ). The cigarette papers are made from the Davidson River near Brevard, shown in production ( 10:56 - 11:35 ). Large…

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Running time

31 minutes

Language

English

Collection

Ephemeral Films

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