| A Road For All Seasons | ||
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| Catalog #: | 448075 | |
| Clip Number: | 448075-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 1509 | |
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| Location: | Board Room & Country Roads | |
| Year Shot: | 1979 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Roads & Highways | |
| Description: | For the most part this film takes place in a staged municipal meeting between several older, casually dressed men. The meeting's subject? The financial and structural dilemma between gravel, asphalt, and concrete roadways, of course (they settle on concrete for their own roads). The following are just a few shots involved... 0' to 100'.......... the meeting begins; they discuss the topic and the possible solutions; the meeting moderator/speaker (also narrator) talks and shows charts and graphs re. each base type's fiscal benefits. 100' to 200'.......high angle wide LS of a school bus driving on a country gravel road and kicking up a duststorm in its wake.... CU's and MS's of the meeting's male attendence... travelling LS of a cracked and worn cement country road... 200' to 300'......subjective travelling MS of a deteriorated asphalt country road... charts and graphs of road service life and maintenance costs of asphalt and cement concrete roads. 300' to 400'...... subjective travelling LS of a cement concrete country road on a sunny day... MS of a "Speed Limit 35 MPH" sign and a posted weight sign.... MS of a dog walking (away from camera) on a lonely country road 400' to 500'.......montage: construction of a cement concrete road from the scarifying stage to cement mixing to mechanical and hand paving to joint sealing; includes fascinating ECU's of cement being mixed and a high angle LS of a large paving machine in operation. 500' to End......subjective travelling LS of a car throwing dust and rocks onto car behind on a gravel country road... MS of man inspecting the shattered windshield of his pickup truck... MS of pickup truck driving through a limited access country road | |
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