| The City | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 11284 |
| Catalog #: | 490322 | |
| Clip Number: | 490322-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NTOWNS-007 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Suburbia | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CITY PLANNING: New Towns | |
| Description: | 17.49.23-Shot of young men playing Baseball, two put hands on the handle of the bat to choose sides. Shots of the spectators of this intra-town ballgame. A home-run ball rolls into a marsh where a toddler retrieves it. A boy is unsuccessful fixing the flat tire of his bike, which means he's missing a few innings of the game in progress. In celebration after the game, members of the winning team chase down their pitcher, tackle him, strip him to his drawers, and throw him in the lake. Shots of kids at play on a playground with slide, swings, see-saws, and monkey bars. The boy from before is still trying to fix that flat tire. Next, we see he's fixed the flat, gets his bag lunch from mom, joins his mates to go for a ride, passes a young couple working contentedly in their garden, They end up down at the swimmin' hole. 17.53.48-series of shots emphasizing the clarity and relaxed pace of life in a New City. A man sits in the yard to read the paper, while wifey bathes the baby. Shots of libraries, gardeners. Shot of a woman loading clothes and soap into a washing machine, which has thankfully left her free time to join the other wives of the neighborhood for bridge and gossip, which the announcer notes is "good for the complexion" [gag, barf, retch]. Shots of people [mostly women] doing the grocery shopping. Shot of line of boys with their Radio Flyer wagons outside store, hauling home the groceries like good sons. 17.55.33-Excellent shots of PRINTING PRESSES, announcer talks about the importance of the press to build local society around. Shots of people riding buses and driving cars to work, shot from car of a broad, tree-lined parkway that constitutes the commute in this heaven-on-earth. Shots of workers entering factories, the announcer praises the spirit-building character of work here. | |
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