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_2
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Infrastructure: Roads and highways
- Car culture: General
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Highway Hornet's Nest · JayKay49 · 2012-05-07
Bet this scenario was played out 100's of times during that era. 20 years later it mattered not a bit whether the superhighway went through or around the city. After all, it was the exits that housed Mickey Dees and BK Whopper and eventually large scale stores with oodles of parking and lower prices to boot. And by that time, people loved going off at highway speed to the nearest large city - where they could satisfy ALL their needs. So in a way, this is how the inefficient stone age Mom & Pop stores became history in most areas. That map reminds me....Bypasses that were not limited access…
★★ · 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…
