Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas)
Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas) is a short film from 1937 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Full of GREAT stock shots of 1930s manufacturing, research laboratories and industry
Lowell Thomas sitting at desk in studio Art card: map of United States with various shots matted in
There are no new frontiers within our borders. To what new horizons can we look now? Where are tomorrow s opportunities? What s ahead in America for you and your children?
Men and women walking towards light, indistinct rapture space (great shot) Lighted question mark in sky (good) Dramatized Commissioner of Patents in 1844, speaking to camera and telling us that human improvements must end. Old clipper ship (reenacted) Old railroad engine (reenacted) [more shots unlisted return and list them] VS scientists in industrial research labs: glassware, test tubes, scales, etc. CU test tube held in front of camera LS oil wells in Pennsylvania, supered over news piece on Col. Drake s oil discovery Gasoline auto engine supered in vignette over refineries and other images Pan over huge oil refinery VS large oil refineries Wipe out to gas station CU nozzle entering gas tank [more shots unlisted here return to this] CU vanishing cream and other petroleum byproducts coming out of petroleum drum MS researchers in scientific library LS draftsmen in drafting room Scientist talking about problems: why we can see through glass, what is friction, what makes grass green VS African American workers picking cotton in field various supers over picture at bottom with statistics about extractive production Pan over wheatfield CU airplane propeller rotating and speeding up LS old freeway interchange Entrance to West Side highway from street level below (New York City) Aerial of West Side highway in Manhattan, New York City Hammer hammering lens CU television screen, hand adjusting knob underneath [more shots unlisted here return and log] Optical showing various ingredients rotating in front of camera, montage of synthetically produced goods (good, kind of abstract) Montage of research, design, engineering, industry, transportation (good)
CU brass plaque RESEARCH LABORATORY| Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas) | |
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| Produced by | Audio Productions, Inc. in collaboration with National Industrial Council |
Production companies | Audio Productions, Inc. in collaboration with National Industrial Council |
| Distributed by | Audio Productions, Inc. in collaboration with National Industrial Council |
Release date | 1937 |
Running time | 9:57 |
| Language | English |
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