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CHEVROLET MOTORS "AMERICAN HARVEST" 1951 AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION FILM MD43084

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  • Опубликовано: 31 май 2020
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    Originally released in 1951, "American Harvest" was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile. The film shows how important auto manufacturing and use are to the American economy while simultaneously showing the effects of the automobile upon the American landscape. John Forsythe's narration is accompanied by images of automobile manufacturing, the extraction and processing of raw materials including oil from the earth, and mid-1950s consumerism.
    This story is the life story of America production. Somewhere with someone on the job everything we have is started. Somewhere a farmer is ploughing the land and although he ploughs alone, he’s not alone. His life is tied with many others, everyone depends on him and he also depends on all of us as seen at mark1:20. At mark1:40, he is herding his cattle. Somewhere, someone sets off a blast to reach up to metals of rocks and set people off to smelting and blast furnace in mills and factories as seen at mark 2:00. From this many interdependent people come to fashion a product of human inventiveness from the bounty of nature. At mark 2:27, a farmer is seen with his wheat plantation. At mark 2:54 is a sugar farmer. He is seen with his sugarcane plantation. At mark 3:18, cotton is seen. It is a raw material for fabrics and plastics in the Alabama and throughout the whole south, also in Texas and California. At mark 4:12, cottons are also derived from goats. At mark 4:40, herds of cattle are seen here. They possess thick hard hides. A turpentine barrel in Florida and Georgia is seen at mark 5:52 which conveys wine to all. An oil field is seen at mark 6:15. The Oil refinery is seen at mark 6:50 where all the oil is been processed with help of different personnel. At mark 7:12, copper is been exploited for. Copper for batteries, for radiators and electrical systems form Colorado and New Mexico and also other exploitation of gold. At mark 8:04, a rusty powdery earth called iron ore or ferric oxide is seen. At mark 8:22, steel has its beginning. Here at mark 8:36 from the rusty earth comes the ores that have the beginning of irons and from these comes steels of many kinds. Here The different minerals are seen at mark 9:30. Here iron, chromium, tungsten, pure lead, gold are seen with their uses. At mark 10:17, all these metals are smelt.
    At mark 11:00, a lumberjack is seen cutting down trees. The trees fell are later processed as seen at mark 11:30. At mark 12:01 are highways for basic supplies of steel, gravels and concrete as seen at mark 12:04, and these products are flown for processing as seen at mark 12:16. At mark 12:20, is a Texto mills of Pennsylvania. Here, fabrics are processed. Corn is seen at mark 12:55. at mark 13:20, corn is been processed.
    Sand and flame make glass as seen at mark 14:50. It takes skilled men to grind and polish as seen at mark 15:14. The finished product is seen at mark 15:30. The processing of fine ores into finer steels is seen at mark 15:40. This requires great range of facilities. There are many jobs to be done along the line. The polishing, cutting and so on as seen at mark 16:40. The different steels from various countries are smelt here and then transported after been produced. At mark 18:00, is a phenomenal chain of transport. At mark 18:40, men with skillful and productive minds are seen here. At mark 20:00, the factories are seen.
    At mark 21:13, a life story of ten thousand engineers is seen with hundreds of supporting equipment and thousands of hundreds of supply. That is the story of production as the equipment dance to the mystery of the workers' hands. Each parts as seen at mark 23:15 are finished and they fits because someone built it that way. Hence automobile designs are made. At mark 24:40 is a great assembly of the end products. After this, the automobiles are inspected as seen at mark 25:00.
    At mark 25:50, the automobiles are transported. Life in America has been made easy for all so we can live where we want to. At mark 26:20, there are new businesses which have developed due to automobiles production. At mark 27:10, it has helped in education and has helped to create more work and money as seen at mark 27:33.
    Credits: Photographic direction: Gordon Avil, Pierre Mols and Robert Tavernier. Music: Samuel Benavie. Narrator: John Forsythe.
    This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFi...

Комментарии • 48

  • @brosefmcman8264
    @brosefmcman8264 Год назад +14

    The greatest time to be an American

  • @randyarock
    @randyarock Год назад +3

    Watching this and similar films here send me back to a classroom after lunch hour… I can even hear the projector running in that darkened classroom as we watched. 😊

  • @mitchdakelman4470
    @mitchdakelman4470 4 года назад +10

    American Harvest was the first of a series of 5 films and their updated versions, dealing with how great America was, and the jobs we had and manufacturing. Very up beat films made in Technicolor by Jam Handy Films for Chevrolet.

  • @ArmpitStudios
    @ArmpitStudios 4 года назад +6

    Neat film. The narrator is a bit slow, but it’s better than how so many of today’s narrators speed read their copy. Dig those factory workers-no robots to replace actual jobs.

  • @justsittinhere72
    @justsittinhere72 Год назад +2

    I remember that tune on our old black and white set...see the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet.

  • @TheWizardGamez
    @TheWizardGamez Год назад +3

    People really don’t appreciate the sheer scale of the economy. You buy a small trinket in Connecticut. And your paying the manufacturer who pays the producer, who pays their guys who go out and buy their own trinkets and things.

  • @butchortner6572
    @butchortner6572 Год назад +5

    That was fantastic.

  • @laserbeam002
    @laserbeam002 Год назад +3

    Even today I think there are people...mostly young people,..who think they can have the nice cars, fine clothes, beautiful homes, computers, big flat screen TV's without someone mining, farming and manufacturing those products or the components IN those products. Too many people today live in something akin to a bubble and have no idea where all the stuff they THINK they can not live without actually comes from.

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 4 года назад +11

    Similar films, echoing American pride and know how- while subtly promoting Chevrolet- were produced by Jam Handy through the 1960's.

  • @Sennmut
    @Sennmut Год назад +4

    What we once were and had, before everything was outsourced to Peking, or Somalia.

    • @laserbeam002
      @laserbeam002 Год назад +1

      Yep...and Mexico, China, Japan.

  • @kevinzebrowski6766
    @kevinzebrowski6766 9 месяцев назад +1

    Hell yeah

  • @clarencetrice4442
    @clarencetrice4442 Год назад +2

    IN 1946 after WW2 America 🇺🇸 went back 2 work ,working 24/7 putting America back 2 work and on its feet again making new cars ,trucks, tractors and anything else that was needed 2 get job done and the work alot of people hadn't had new cars trucks tractors in years back then everything went 4 the war effort 😊😊 OMG 7 28 2O23

  • @anneavanesian4438
    @anneavanesian4438 Год назад +2

    heavy sigh........................

  • @chairmanofthebored8684
    @chairmanofthebored8684 26 дней назад

    FINE AS FINE COULD EVER BE FINE

  • @ndrewgunnar
    @ndrewgunnar Год назад +1

    cars didn't connect us, they forced roads down to keep us apart. So frustrated that people are fooled by the industry

  • @DMBall
    @DMBall 10 месяцев назад +2

    The result of the American Harvest? An overpriced, flimsy, declining asset that will end up in a junkyard before much more than a decade is out, but not before draining the savings of the owner, or perhaps putting him in a hospital or graveyard.

    • @thomasgilson6206
      @thomasgilson6206 4 месяца назад

      Agree! One more vote for public transportation,

    • @tjlovesrachel
      @tjlovesrachel 3 месяца назад

      @@thomasgilson6206😂😂😂😂😂

  • @satanofficial3902
    @satanofficial3902 4 года назад +6

    Extreme disapproval for cutting down those redwoods. Those trees took hundreds of years to grow.
    Trees that have been around since the dinosaurs. And extincted by humans in hardly any time at all.

    • @satanofficial3902
      @satanofficial3902 4 года назад +3

      Runaway greed. Just gotta, gotta, gotta have that own personal slice of the greediness pie! And live... The Good Life... even as greed has killed the USA.
      This is most illogical.

    • @satanofficial3902
      @satanofficial3902 4 года назад +3

      "Making a living"... while creating death.
      I dunno... Isn't that an oxymoron or something?

    • @tapman1277
      @tapman1277 4 года назад +6

      @@satanofficial3902 Did you reply twice to your own comment?
      Pretty easy to preach greed in hindsight. I certainly don't like to see the felling of those old redwoods either, but it took the trials of yesteryear to get to where we are today. We've got a long way to go but we're slowly figuring it out, and unless you live in a cave nibbling on grass you can thank the so-called "greedy" people of times gone by for the amazing lives we live today.

    • @leegraves8878
      @leegraves8878 4 года назад +2

      The dinosaurs has only been gone a hundred years wow I was told millions.

    • @sarjim4381
      @sarjim4381 4 года назад +4

      The average logevity of a redwood tree is about 2,000 years. I think dinosaurs have been gone a lot longer than that, there are still lots of old redwoods arounf. Most old growth trees that were cut down had disease or rot, so they were cut down before they came down on their own, and while they were still useful. Redwods grow at about 10 feet a year, so some big redwoods will be around for a long time.

  • @joemarchinski914
    @joemarchinski914 Год назад +1

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      @chumbawaumbacumpa Год назад

      Your head must be shaped like the letter U.

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