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The Industrial City (1970)

1970 · Short film · 15 min

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This color educational film is about the new Industrial City of today. Detroit, Michigan is prominently featured. This film was released in January 1970 by Encyclopædia Britannica Films. Detroit Industrial Community. Iron and steel factories. Computers, pharmaceuticals. Numerous cars being moved onto truck transports. Automobiles on a train transport. Assembly line in a Detroit factory. Steel in tubes. Cars being pieced together. An engine is placed inside a car. A car is driven off the line. A plane takes off. A boat on a waterway. Arial shot of a highway (:06-2:52). A map of the United States. Cities: Milwaukee, WI, Chicago, IL, Gary, Indiana, Toledo and Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA, Toronto and Windsor, Ontario are mentioned. They all lie on major arteries of transportation. Detroit, MI in the early 1900s. People build cars. Eli Olds, Walter P. Chrysler and Henry Ford were the car building pioneers. Cars on an assembly line, mass production in the early 1900s. Moving assembly line sped up production. Old cars are built. The Ford Model T, Model T's drive. Immigrants worked in the factories. Polish immigrant section of Detroit. People leaving work in the modern day. Workers on the line. Spinning production wheels. Close on the giant Uniroyal Tires tire logo (2:53-6:52). People punch the keys of a computer keyboard. The assembly line of a car factory. People argue on the line. A union meeting. A speaker at the meeting. 1930s/1940s workers strike, men march on the picket…

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Running time
15 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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