Synopsis
Produced to garner support for the 1956 Federal Aid-Highway Act, the law that enabled the Interstate Highway system. After a small town learns that it is to be bypassed by a new freeway, highway officials and politicians help to convince residents that the freeway is actually in their interest. The film ends as it began, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stretch of highway.
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Details
- Running time
- 14 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- HighwayH1956
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Infrastructure: Roads and highways
- Car culture: General
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Think of the Children! · Christine Hennig · 2005-03-05
Another 50s film about highways. This one shows a fictional town called Connorsville, whose citizens are all up in arms because the proposed superhighway will bypass the town. But our friendly highway engineer convinces them that the bypass will make their town better rather than worse, and soon everybody is smiling about it at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. This film was obviously made to convince small-town folk just like the ones in the film to let their towns be bypassed by the Interstate. Whether it actually helped or hurt them can be seen today. One would hope that they werenât as easily…
★★ · Hearing Loss? · Spuzz · 2003-07-25
Another one of these 30 minute films about an issue that features differing points of view which go into a meeting, view a film, debate and finally agree to something. Wait a minute, this sounds a LOT like "Atomic Energy as a Force for Good!" made the previous year. Anyways, we begin with the opening of a highway, and the dedication of it. The mayor, the planners get on stage and start talking, then the mayor invites a real cutie of a woman on stage. We dpn't know the identity of this woman until 3/4 of the way through, until that time we're speculating the mayor is rather openly picking up…
