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{{Filmjr |title=Going Places |embid=0021_Going_Places_21_19_38_00 |embsv=archiveorg |desc=Industrial film about the logistical problems that rush
hour traffic jams pose to cities, and how well-designed public
transportation / mass transit systems can solve these problems. Good 1950s
car traffic. Filmed in Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), and possibly elsewhere. Many jump
cuts, color is muddy.

[On-screen timecode].

00:00:00:00 CU "caution - children at play" street sign.
00:00:02:00 Boys in street playing pepper baseball game, playing catch
and riding bicycles.
00:07:00:00 Two boys slowly riding bicycles in street crash in head-on
collision; the two boys angrily shove each other as other
children watch. [Bicycle accident, children fighting].
00:00:40:00 Car traffic on busy street, two shots.
00:00:46:00 CU old-fashioned 1950s streetlight, a green "Go" sign is
lowered and a red "Stop" sign is raised.
00:00:49:00 Car accident / crash: POV car sppeding toward rear-end
collision with another, and impact; the two driver men
yell out of their windows, get out and angrily argue with
each other; CU the angry mouths of the two arguing men.
00:01:11:00 Careless pedestrian man walks across street while reading
newspaper, oblivious to the cars that stop sort of running
him over.
00:01:36:00 Montage of reverse-motion / backward motion (film is
printed in reverse): car driving backwards, VS; motorcycle
cop driving backwards; dropped shopping bags fly back up
into man's arms; girl jumping rope backwards; man walking
backwards; etc.
00:03:27:00 ZO family washing its 1950s car in driveway.
00:03:37:00 TD the George Washington Bridge to the bumper-to-bumper
rush hour commuter traffic crawling across; a few other
shots of bumper-to-bumper traffic on highways probably
leading into NYC. Good shots.
00:04:03:00 TD EXT facade of "Prudential" office building.
00:04:17:00 Architect / engineer works on a technical drawing at
drafting table with a grease pencil / China marker.
00:04:41:00 VS slow-moving and bumper-to-bumper traffic on busy city
streets and highways, at least one shot is of the West
Side Highway in NYC; PAN shots of parking lots filled to
capacity are inserted here and there. Good shots.
00:04:58:00 Demolition man pushes down on plunger; construction site
ground explosion.
00:05:53:00 Car traffic on city street drives slowly past CAM, CU LA.
00:07:18:00 NYC subway: two "GG"-line (now the "F" and "G" lines)
subway trains going into and coming out of tunnel at one
end of the Ninth Street Subway Viaduct bridge in Brooklyn,
a short stretch of above-ground subway track.
00:07:57:00 Bus stops at city corner, a few commuters get on and off
the bus; CU hand dropping token into the fare box; bus
riders take their seats.
00:08:42:00 Montage of buses, trolleys / streetcars and one shot of a
short commuter train on city streets; one of the buses
says "Kings Highway" on it - Brooklyn / NYC scenes?
00:09:58:00 A bus moves through a car wash.
00:10:15:00 Public transportation dispatcher control room.
00:10:28:00 Passengers and engineer in above-ground commuter train,
VS.
00:10:43:00 LA trolley / streetcar on city street turning a corner
past CAM.
00:11:01:00 VS man driving his convertible car down traffic-congested
city street; CU various street signs which he passes.
00:13:05:00 HA car pulls into parking spot.
00:14:00:00 VS buses driving on city streets, one says "Kings
Highway", another looks like it says "Holland Tunnel" -
NYC?

21:30:04
CU Trolley operator
21:30:09
Trolley operator
POV Tracks, controls
21:31:05
CU Traffic sign - Keep to Left
21:31:06
CU Traffic sign - Keep to Right
21:31:07
CU Traffic sign - Do Not Enter
21:31:11
Driver POV - One Way sign
21:31:13
Driver looking confused
21:31:16
Cartoon of overlapping street signs *
21:31:27
Driver getting out of car in front of "Dead End" sign *
21:33:20
Traffic Jam

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