Partners in Progress

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Partners in Progress is a short film from ca. 1954 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Many shots of laying telephone cable in different ways and stringing telephone line and splicing; lines of switchboard operators;

Shots: paddlewheelers; old part of Atlanta; aerials of Atlanta's business district; Building construction; bricklayer; pouring concrete from truck; sugar refinery; aluminum plant; grain elevator; shipbuilding; great shots of heavy equipment moving; steel manufacturing; man dialing phone in office; assembly line manufacturing; tire manufacturing; textile manufacturing; bon voyage wishers come down gangway from ocean liner; bon voyage streamers fly; passengers wave; ship is untied and casts off train yard; Delta Airlines jet taxing on runway; highways; aircraft building; man waving and giving OK sign out of jet plane cockpit; troops drilling and weapons training; soldier is shown in CU squeezing off few rounds on his M-16. radio antenna built on top of small mountain; Sign: SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, an atomic energy plant: truck with ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION on the side; traffic into plant being stopped and inspected; guard puts up hand in universal "Halt" sign; hundreds of people walking near the administration building [architecturally distinctive] [the plant covers 15 square miles]; building miles of 7-foot pipe for the millions of gallons of water the plant needs; telephone Southern Bell military attended telephone center; switchboard operators place long distance calls for soldiers; soldiers wait in lounge; when call is ready, the go to a booth to take it. soldiers place phone calls in booths; montage of people speaking on phone; farmer spraying crops on tractor; laying telephone cable with heavy machinery; soldering very large cables; laying underwater telephone cable with several tug boats and barge; giant coaxial cables are spliced together on the barge's deck by several men; CU inside cross-section of coaxial cable; excellent aerials; montage of shots of definite people who work at the telephone company; group shot of people who work for Southern Bell. "Where gracious living began, rivers echoed to the whistles of paddle wheelers transporting plantation goods to market. Cities and towns sprang up and they grew and prospered in the manner of the Old World, this was the Dixie of romance and leisurely life, a Dixie that still lives in memory. But today there's a New South a new tempo; the land of promise has become a land of accomplishment. . . . Business is booming. . . . In this day, the thunder of construction is melody to Dixie ears. " "Yesterday's countryside is today's suburb and tomorrow a community all its own." "And everywhere the telephone quickens the pulse of industry." "Water for security, weapon for defense." [at atomic plant]

"The South is the number one training ground for the nation's fighting men."

Partners in Progress
Produced byBeeland (Charles O.) Productions
Production
company
Beeland (Charles O.) Productions
Distributed byBeeland (Charles O.) Productions
Release date
ca. 1954
Running time
2 reels (?)
LanguageEnglish
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