Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
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	Catalog #:	493235
	Clip Number:	493235-11
	Orginal Film:
	Timecode:	00:48:54 - 00:50:51
	Location:	United States
	Year Shot:	1920 (Estimated Year)
	Audio:	No
	Color:	No
	Headings:	COMMUNICATIONS: Telephone CONSTRUCTION: Dams & Levees CONSTRUCTION: Equipment INDUSTRY: Food, Dairy LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA MAIL: Misc. OCCUPATIONS: Mailman / Postal Carriers RETROSPECTIVES: 1920s TRANSPORTATION/AUTOMOBILE: Industry & Assembly TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Early TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Mail TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Passenger
	Description:	TLS United States Postal Service truck pulling up to curb, postal worker getting out. MSs postman (mailman, mail man) delivering mail to doorstep, ringing bell, woman getting mail. MS elderly white man depositing Air Mail into slot. MSs postal workers sorting mail with help of early automation. TLS U.S. Mail truck at Ford Airport. TLS/LSs early air mail monoplanes (sponsored by Ford Motor Company) taking off; MSs air mail pilot alighting plane, posing for cam. MSs wealthy white people boarding a small commercial airline plane. MSs propeller spinning. TLSs Ford monoplane taxiing, taking off. MSs airline passengers sitting in wicker chairs aboard plane, looking out windows, includes one shot of elderly man who may very well be oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. Air to air shots of early commercial plane in flight.

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