Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Midweek Matinee: Conquering Roads, 1937

Conquering Roads

All photos are frame grabs from video below.

The modern motor car demands equally modern roads. Here's how it's accomplished.

Conquering Roads

"What's wrong with this picture?" asks the narrator. Clearly, it's that the driver of the covered wagon is poking along in the left lane, forcing motorists to pass on the right. Next?

Conquering Roads

Today's big-city traffic requires proper planning. . .

Conquering Roads

. . .followed by state-of-the-art construction methods and equipment. . .

Conquering Roads

. . .to build really massive intersections.

Conquering Roads

"The new bridges, such as the Triborough Bridge at New York, will do away with the bottlenecks of traffic, and free drivers from delay, over miles of approaching roads."

Conquering Roads

Improved roads: All the better to spur sales of shiny new Chevrolets.

"With these new highways come new advances in engineering, new standards of comfort, new records of economy, and above all, the savings of man's greatest asset, time." Problem solved.

Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.



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