Synopsis
This black & white educational film from Louis de Rochemont "Making a Living Around the World" is part of a series of called "The Way We Live". This episode, "Trade and Transportation", focus around the way people sell or trade goods in countries all over the world. Copyright 1958. Opening titles: United World Films, Inc. presents The Way We Live - Making A Living Around the World - Trade and Transportation (:06-:27). Main Street USA, shops on the street including a delicatessen and a grocery store. Fruits and vegetables. Hardware store. Clothing store. French Bakery, a cobbler or shoe repair man at work. A cash register opens and money is exchanged. A little girl writes down trade in a notebook. A girl and her mother leave the store (:28-1:40). Map shows United States, Canada, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The map zoom in on the province of Quebec in Canada. French Canadian farmers at work. A man puts a heavy bag onto a wagon. Potatoes, apples and onions are loaded onto it along with eggs and chickens. Horse pulls the wagon with a father and son (1:41-2:54). Father and son arrive into town. A woman pays the man for some food. Next customer, father delivers eggs, woman pays with credit. At the end of the day, the pair return home. Country of the Netherlands aka Holland. Farmlands of Holland. A canal. A farmer uses a small boat to transport food (2:55-5:04). Boat uses a small cable car to go up and over into a larger canal. Some boats pass through locks. Small boats or barges…
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- Running time
- 17 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
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- Stock Footage