Cities - How They Grow (Second Edition)
Cities - How They Grow (Second Edition) is a short film from 1952 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
A study of our increasing urban population. Departing from the usual statistics and the sociological problems which are a result of the cities' growth, we learn that by observing what the workers of the city do, we can find out why the city grew.
| Cities - How They Grow (Second Edition) | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Encyclopaedia Britannica Films |
Production company | Encyclopaedia Britannica Films |
| Distributed by | Encyclopaedia Britannica Films |
Release date | 1952 |
Running time | 10:00 |
| Language | English |
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A CITY IS DEFINED & AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO SHOW THAT IT CONSISTS OF 2 KINDS OF PEOPLE - "BUILDERS" & "FILLERS". ASPECTS OF GREAT CITIES SHOWN; WHY CITIES DIE & ARE KNOWN AS "GHOST TOWNS".
Many stock shots that need to be logged.
21:01:26:29 1950s urban people crossing street, camera pans from people up high-rise building, probably in New York City.
21:01:50:05 High-angle 1950s cars on highway driving away from camera toward big city in distance.
21:02:19:26 VS covered wagons; river boat with two large smokestacks producing trails of black smoke.
21:03:03:04 Antique head saw at old-fashioned sawmill cutting log in two.
21:03:14:08 Pan up large pipes of 1940s to 1950s oil refinery; VS steel mill.
21:03:41:05 Great shot of large cattle farm; sheep herded into livestock transportation train car.
21:04:18:24 VS workers, men and women, working in cotton mill; machines spooling cotton yarn; CU machinery.
21:04:36:24 Reenactment of immigrants around 1900 waiting to be examined at an immigration entrance facility; MS doctor holding stethoscope examines the eyes of an immigrant wearing hat with shabby beard.
21:04:45:24 CU harvester combine tractor plowing through field of grain.
21:05:04:17 CU freight train pulls away from camera, train produced enormous cloud of smoke.
21:05:11:21 Low-angle LS the White House, backs of family and older couple with backs toward camera walking toward the White House; map highlights features of Washington D.C. city planning, the wheel and spoke design.
21:06:30:18 Aerial of highway in New York City metropolitan area.
21:06:35:09 Great high-angle shot large crowd of 1940s men circled around watching an extremely violent street fight.
21:06:39:07 Street scene in poor New York City neighborhood; kids playing in the street, mothers and young girls watching over babies in strollers; great shot of poor New York City brick buildings, clotheslines hanging over fire escapes, woman standing on fire escape taking clothes off clothesline.
21:06:44:22 Aerial Manhattan in 1940s; VS street level crowded New York City streets in late 1940s.
21:07:01:02 4 New York City street kids hanging out in back alley, one smoking a cigarette while the others play cards.
21:07:07:06 LS area of heavy industry, numerous smokestacks, extremely polluted smoke-filled air, train crosses frame in foreground.
21:07:13:10 Police officer writes a ticket to a man in a 1940s car.
21:07:18:22 VS voting poll in 1940s; shot shows White men, women, and an African-American man entering poll booths to vote.
21:07:29:23 Hoover Dam.
21:07:41:05 Generators in 1940s power plant; pan from electricity substation s transmission lines, along power cables transmission tower, cut to telephone line; CU disembodied arms of female telegrapher, typing out telegraph.
21:08:06:21 Engineers working on 1940s United Airlines plane on runway; United Airlines plane taking off runway.
21:08:24:00 1940s construction workers putting up wood frame of wall in house in long row of houses under construction in suburban housing development; cut to lush upscale suburban neighborhood with no road, only sidewalk cutting between houses.
21:08:35:01 Pan up art deco skyscraper, probably the RCA building (now the GE building) in Rockefeller Center, mid-town Manhattan, New York City.
21:08:42:28 Great shot construction worker tosses glowing hot nail to skyscraper construction worker; CU glowing nail hammers into steel beam; two construction workers precariously perched on steel beam of skyscraper frame, one man drills into steel beam.
21:08:54:00 Great shot highway in 1940s.
21:08:59:10 Three 1940s girls playing jump rope in park.
21:09:06:09 Great LS Queensborough bridge.
21:09:19:04 Two 1940s women walk out of a Free Public Library.
21:09:21:29 MS 1940s woman working at desk in large office stamping papers.
21:09:28:17 Front of movie theatre in 1940s.
21:09:33:06 CU disembodied musician hand pressing notes on fingerboard of violin.
21:09:37:24 Great shot man and woman doing rehearsing ballet dance routine.