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This film, presented by General Electric, is produced by AvCom in 1964 and promotes the benefits of rapid transit in various metropolitan cities including Toronto, Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston while promoting the upcoming development of San Francisco’s new rapid transit project now known as BART.
Trains driving on various railroads (00:08). “Rapid Transit” title banner (00:44). “The Vital Link In a Balanced Transportation System” written on screen (00:53). A game of American football (01:11). Two train carriages passing on parallel tracks (01:24). Track running (01:32). A horse race (01:37). A Jaguar D-type and a Maserati 300s racing (01:41). A turtle walking on grass (01:43). A highway with slow-moving traffic (01:50). People strolling through crowded city-streets (02:00). Tall buildings and the construction of more still (02:14). Workers in the city walking (02:26). A train driving (02:33). A full parking lot at a bus terminal (02:39). Many people walking from the ‘West Park’ train station in Cleveland, Ohio (02:58). Children entering the train station (03:02). Passengers exiting the train (03:07) and boarding the train (03:09). The train driving (03:10). People exiting from an underground station (03:23). Scaffolding attached to a building for renovation (03:35). A skyscraper (03:39). A train driving through a suburb (03:42). Suburban detached houses (03:48). Rail tracks going below the city’s surface (04:00). People walking through a mall (04:05). An apartment community named Green Ridge (04:10). Attached house being built (04:12). The signs of other newly built apartment communities (04:14). Views from the window of a moving train (04:20). Tall apartment complexes (04:29). A train driving under a bridge (04:37). Urban scenes (04:40). Views from the window of a moving train (04:48). A full parking lot at the bus terminal (05:05). A suburban resident, Joe Corby, parking his 1964 Dodge Polara car at the bus terminal, to use public transportation into the city (05:16). A wife drops off her husband at the bus terminal in a 1964 Chevrolet Corvair car (05:27). A man arriving in a feeder bus to the station (05:41). A woman driving into the city in a Chrysler 300 car (05:51). Passengers in a train (06:05). The train driving alongside the cars on express rail tracks between highways (06:12). A busy train station (06:24). A game of croquet (06:42). A barbecue (06:44). Children playing in a pool (06:49). A woman jumping from a diving board (06:52). A family drives their car to a store (06:56). Shea Stadium, the baseball stadium where the New York Mets played (07:04). Scenes of the game (07:13). Golf players on a course (07:19). “O’Keefe Centre” mall (07:24). A public pool (07:41). A train driving (07:46). A crowded train station (07:52). The parking lot of the bus terminal (07:56). Suburban houses (08:08). Scenes from downtown Toronto (08:17). Trains driving on different tracks (08:23). People walking in and out of trains and stations (09:06). The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California (09:17). The San Franciscan Bay area (09:24). Cable cars driving through the city of San Francisco (09:27). The Bay harbor (09:31). “Rapid Transit District” written on screen (09:37). Highways crowded by traffic (09:42). “Information Program” written on screen (09:44). “Financing” written on screen (09:52). Scenes from San Francisco’s Bay area (10:02). A man driving and smoking a cigarette (10:24). Boats sailing in the bay (10:33). Trains driving on tracks (10:42). People walking through stations (10:55). The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and an overlayed illustration of USA (11:01). Apartment buildings and passing trains (11:22). People walking through the city (11:36). A barbecue (11:37). Trains and train tracks (11:41). “Rapid Transit” title banner (12:00). “The Vital Link In a Balanced Transportation System” written on screen (12:06).
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Негізгі бет ” RAPID TRANSIT ” 1964 GENERAL ELECTRIC SUBWAY & COMMUTER RAIL PROMO FILM BART SYSTEM 98525
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