New Horizons
New Horizons is a short film from 1948 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
The "story of a new South whose roots are embedded deep in the honored tradition of the old." Shows the economy of the Southeast, white and African American workers, cities, and daily life, all in the context of railroad business and operations. Producer and Director: Carl Dudley. Script: Herman Boxer.
01:01:13:00 Low-angle Black boy picking cotton.
01:01:34:34:21 Washington Monument.
01:01:48:09 Group of teenage girls look up at statue of Pocahontas; pan up Pocahontas statue; statue of Captain John Smith; statue of George Washington; Monticello Thomas Jefferson s home; sign for Colonial National Historical Park Cape Henry Memorial First Landing Dune, large memorial cross in dune.
01:02:22:23 Little African-American boy wearing overalls and blue shirt looks up into camera as he sits in a pool of cotton, metal chain extends across cotton heap behind boy. Audio track Way down south in the land of cotton.
01:02:28:16 VS black servant at Southern mansion serves white folks in front yard seated in lawn chairs; low-angle shot older White man drinks mint julep then lights up cigar.
01:02:56:04 CU young brunette woman smiling in the sun while combing hair; CU young brunette woman places flower in her hair.
01:03:09:27 Great low-angle looking up two gigantic smoke stacks with white smoke pouring out of them; downtown Southern city in 1950s.
01:03:38:25 Shirtless builder in white overalls cutting wood with saw on construction sit, wood frame of house in background; Southern farmer driving tractor plowing land.
01:03:53:23 Aerial of southern university, football stadium; VS southern university.
01:04:11:16 Black workers picking fruit of trees, likely Georgia peaches.
01:04:33:16 Great shot of salt mine; industrial factory producing large amount of smoke; low-angle Black workers moving cargo out of train.
01:04:51:21 High-angle shot of farmer driving red tractor of green farmland.
01:05:03:21 Great shot black and yellow train with headlamp on speeds past camera at angle.
01:05:13:01 Pan over orchard; three Black workers on three ladders leaned up against orange tree pick fruit off Florida Orange tree; CU hundreds of bright orange Florida oranges.
01:05:33:08 White men load shipment of produce onto Pacific Fruit Express train car.
01:05:36:18 CU three attractive Southern women, not workers, smiling while picking peaches off of tree.
01:05:39:12 Black worker standing in bed of pickup truck passes huge watermelons to White men inside Seaboard Railroad cargo train.
01:05:53:24 Low-angle man wearing hat, shirt and tie walks toward camera between rows of large tobacco plants, man inspects leaves of plants; VS tobacco auction, CU auctioneer, men examining piles of dried tobacco leaves; African American men role large wood barrels into cargo train; woman wearing white gloves grabs cigarettes off of conveyor belt and stacks them on top of each other creating a wall of cigarettes.
01:06:54:08 Hundreds of chickens in cage stacked on top of each other.
01:06:59:17 White man walks through cotton field, examines the crop; huge quantity of cotton mechanically dumped into large wood framed contained painted red, Black man stands in cotton heap and distributes it throughout the container; low-angle Black woman picks cotton in field; LS 4 African-Americans picking cotton in field, rickety farmhouse in background.
01:08:24:10 Tractor drives through crop rows spraying mist of pesticides over the land.
01:08:47:24 CU automatic round saw blade cutting tree; LS tall tree falls to the ground; VS timber industry: African-American workers cutting timber with huge automatic saws, cranes stacking logs, wood carried up incline by conveyor, wood stripped of its bark in rotating cylinder.
91:09:33:18 VS inside textile factory; CU automatic loom with rayon fiber.
01:10:04:11 Great CU disembodied arms of film editor editing film; editor marks film with red pencil, winds film back onto real.
01:10:25:17 Black man dipping and scrapping pine tree for sap; man scrapes the crude gum from a small bucket; VS turpentine distillery; Black men rolling metal barrels of turpentine.
01:10:53:08 Great shot black, yellow and red Seaboard rain speeds past camera cutting across southern countryside.
01:11:13:06 CU cover of book titled Early American Railroads; disembodied hand opens book to picture of the Raleigh Seaboard locomotive of 1836; VS modern (1948) Seaboard Airline Railroad train.
01:12:17:00 Low-angle passing Seaboard train.
01:12:25:23 LS Jacksonville Florida s Union Station, 1940s taxis pull up to train station; people boarding train; luxurious dining car; father and son play chess in train as mother reads magazine; Seaboard freight train; red Seaboard freight train the Silver Meteor; VS freight train.
01:14:06:01 CU door reads room 230 Agricultural Department Seaboard.
01:14:13:03 Man wearing shirt and tie inspects corn stalks; man wearing shirt and tie walks through filed and inspects crops.
01:14:28:06 CU door reads room 233 Industrial Department Seaboard. VS two men looking over blueprints.
01:14:43:00 VS timber industry; wood craned onto conveyor; VS inside paper factory, woman stacks brown paper bags rapidly shooting out of machine.
01:15:02:23 VS on southern, probably, Florida beach; man sits down on beach chair under beach umbrella; three woman riding bikes on bike path along the beach; horseback riding by lake; man hits golf ball; woman makes long putt.
01:15:27:01 Low-angle from beneath rail of racetrack looking back at horses and jockeys rapidly approaching.
01:15:36:03 Great underwater shot, 4 women dive into water and swim toward camera; Man casually reads paper underwater; CU plaque reads Fountain of Youth ; group of middle-aged adults gatherer around a well, woman in yellow dress pours woman a glass of water.
01:16:03:27 Nauseating rocking camera shot of sailboat; VS speedboat pulls man on jet skis.
01:16:31:13 LS steam engine producing enormous amount of smoke pulls in front of factory with dozens of large smokestacks.
01:16:58:23 Automatic textile loom.
01:17:06:01 Man driving tractor harvests corn crop.
01:17:24:27 Low-angle shot looks up at two smokestacks producing white smoke set against blue sky.
01:17:40:27 Low-angle African American picking cotton.
01:17:57:12 LS train cuts across tranquil countryside leaving behind trail of black smoke; MS speeding Seaboard train; CU train engineer pulls horn; MS speeding Seaboard passenger train.| New Horizons | |
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| Produced by | Dudley Pictures Corp. |
Production company | Dudley Pictures Corp. |
| Distributed by | Dudley Pictures Corp. |
Release date | 1948 |
Running time | 17:54 |
| Language | English |
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