GREYHOUND BUS LINES FREEDOM HIGHWAY 1950s SCENICRUISER PROMOTIONAL FILM 57274
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Made to promote Greyhound Bus Lines and its coast-to-coast service, FREEDOM HIGHWAY was produced by Jerry Fairbanks, a seasoned Hollywood filmmaker, and directed by Harold Schuster. The film features the GM PD-4501 Scenicruiser, operating from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., and follows the stories of several passengers - including the journey of a Boy Scout headed to Washington, a budding romance between two warm blooded passengers, and a mysterious man who just might be the "Unknown Soldier".
The film is chock full of historical incidents including the discovery of gold in California at 5:20, to an Indian and cavalry battle that starts the film, and images of the Alamo at 16:00 and the Boston Tea Party at 23:00, and the Colonial Congress at 23:40. Gettysburg is seen at 28:50, and there is a re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln's address at 30:55. The film ends with images of Washington, D.C. and the veteran's memorials at Arlington Cemetery including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
In addition it features imagery of the USA, including the bus riding through the Golden Gate at 4:10 and Market and Sutter streets at 5:20. The bus cruises to the route of the Pony Express at 10:00, and rides into Reno at 12:30. At 18:00 Chicago is shown, along with a re-enactment of the great fire that leveled the city (borrowed from a feature film). At 20:27 the Key West highway is shown.
The GM PD-4501 Scenicruiser, manufactured exclusively by General Motors for The Greyhound Corporation, was a three-axle monocoque two-level coach used by Greyhound from July 1954 into the mid-70's. 1,001 were made between 1954 and 1956.
The Scenicruiser became an icon of the American way of life due to its presence throughout the USA in cities and along highways and popularity with the traveling public. The name was a portmanteau of the words "scenic" and "cruiser". The high-level design concept of Scenicruiser resembles some of the rolling stock of the passenger-carrying railroads of the United States and Canada, particularly their popular stainless steel dome cars. This type of two-level motorcoach body was common in the late forties in Western Europe, including Great Britain where it was known as Observation coach.
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Go Greyhound, break your engagement, and marry an NFL All-Star!
For a minute I thought this was “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”…..whose the real killer?
check out 'riding the dog', a doc describing a coast to coast bus tour [1989]
I saw it. And they feature a small part of this film in it. Made me tirelessly find what it was and am glad I did! Very chipper.
CHECK OUT FROM LAS VEGAS TO LAS ANGELS.
Have seen 2 of these 1950's Greyhound tour videos now and both had guys trying to pick up women.
That was considered acceptable at the time.
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And what a fine way to meet your next wife!
Yes I just saw the other one!! With the cowboy who shows up at the end to meet the woman he thought he lost?
@@altfactor is someone trying to prevent you from hooking up with a woman? Is it the woman?
Angie Dickinson. Wow.
YEP 👍GREAT VIDEO.
Marshall Thompson, too.
Maybe it's time for some of our congress persons to see this through to the end. Not to mention a former president devoted only to himself. He wanted to give himself the Medal of Honor for being an infantile self-absorbed buffoon.
I actually met the sonofabich once, over 30 years ago, on an Amtrak. A food service worker said to him, "Now you're gonna keep your hands to yourself today, right senator?"
Another passenger said, "Yeah, he's a really nice guy but don't let him near your kids."
Every scene where they reflect on history im like...oh god not another genocide scene. 😷😭🙃
Like we get it! The interstate is paved with the blood of natives show us the damn bus.
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EXACTLY! I was wondering if anyone else would notice that.
Waldo deserves happiness too.
Wow. This sounds like my life. It was 1963 when I was a boy scout who wrote an essay for the local American Legion on "Why I'm Proud to be an American." My prize for winning was an all-expenses paid trip to the boy scout jamboree in Washington, DC, and a day at the World's Fair in NYC. That trip changed my life. History wasn't just words in a book, it really happened.
Sadly a bygone era sir. However, I don't think it's hopeless, I feel folks can be brought around. Not ready to give up yet. It starts with all of us, setting the example.
@@LynxStarAuto same thing I say. It starts with us being the change we wish to see.
While they are on the bridge, why are there rolling hills in the view outside those large picture windows? Wouldn't it be the bay? Or Alcatraz?
If they filmed this during the present day, they'd be picking up and dropping off passengers at some abandoned gas station on the edge of town.
When history was more like a Randolph Scott movie than a David Attenborough documentary. 🤠
What a strange way to promote a bus line. I didn't realize I'd be getting a full blown history lesson.
History is a beautiful thing. Also, the way Greyhound promoted their trips was similar to an amusement ride. They sold you on the history, and beauty of the countryside. It was more than just scenery. America has a very rich history. Yet we take it for granted, and in today's bizarre times we are even trying to cancel it.
@@LynxStarAuto not so much “cancel” it as attempt to make up for the gross denials of freedom to natives and to minorities. American history is mostly a history of how cruel white christians are.
Wow, golly gee wilikers...a real Scout. This has to be the most expensive commercial in history. A tasteful tome to the War Between the States and a proud tear jerker ending.
I love it, the Non "PC" America not divided and we knew what sex we were and what was a woman !!! 😆 Semper Fi
Be proud son, we killed the First Nation Redmen, took their land, killed the Brownmen took their land and sent the flower of our youth half way around the world to kill Korean Yellowmen. "Gee willikers mister I wish I could have been there", "maybe I could get a medal too"! In due time son, Vietnam's right around the corner.
Legend has it the Boy in the film went missing in action north of Cam Ranh Bay in 67 in Vietnam.
@@whereisthedollar no surprise...thanks.
Nice. Very interesting history.
Would of gotten there more comfortably on the new Union Pacific streamliner!
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Or the The California Zephyr , that's for sure.
Thank god we had the Greyhound Scenicruiser to teach us about history and breaking up with nerds.
Would HAVE (would've). No such thing as would of, should of, could of....
THE YEAR 1954 I WAS BORN. THAT BUS ROLLED OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE THAT YEAR.
Never marry a guy named Waldo!
I Love it, the Non "PC" America showing the history at the start of this without worrying about it 👍
What's the name of the song at the 2nd minute?
Strong resemblance to "The Beaver" "Do you like gladiator movies, Jimmy?"
I know Tex was a legend but good lord, I couldn't take too much of that
I full timed PD4501-653 from 1990 thru 2000!