Transportation: Bus, Truck, and Taxi (1946)
1946 · Ephemeral film · 10 min
Synopsis
Jobs moving people.
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Details
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Occupations: Transportation
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Women, pay no attention! · Spuzz · 2005-08-08
Fun little Your Lifes Work! film that this time, focuses on what you need in order to work in the transportation industry, more specifically, The Bus, Trucking and Taxi companies. Lets go over the primary first requirement shall we? 1) Be a male. This is probably the most sexist Your Lifes Work Ive seen yet. Its hilarious how the narrator pauses for effect on the He when mentioning the first requirement on being a Bus driver. You can be a bus driver, cab driver, mechanic, dispatcher, executive, the skys the limit! But you have to be Male! Male! Male! As a matter of fact, we get a tinge of…
★★★ · Vehicles Aplenty · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-12-14
Shots, shots and more shots of streetcars, trolleys, trucks, buses. The director has to vary the shots so some are overhead, some at ground level, some are taken at a crooked angle. If you like old vehicles, you may like this short. It's a little blah otherwise. There's nary a belligerent passenger on any of these bus and streetcar routes, nor anyone doing something moronic on the road. The film is shot MOS over narration.The narrator's familiar from NBC Chicago but I can't name him.
