Construction Equipment

• Table Of Contents:
• (1) The American Road (1953) – 37 Minutes
• (2) Builders Of The Broad Highway (1960s) – 21 Minutes
• (3) Conquering Roads (1937) – 9 Minutes
• (4) Building A Highway (1937) – 10 Minutes (5) Open Road (1960s-70s) – 30 Minutes

Product Description
With more and more Americans buying automobiles every year since 1908 when Henry Ford & Ford Motor Company began mass production of the Model T, it is no surprise that more and more roads and highways needed to be built too. This films collection is a window into the history of the construction of Americas amazing roads and highways systems. Covers America’s storied transportation history and is packed full of great footage of early road construction equipment as well as vintage automobiles including some of the world’s first cars. Table Of Contents: (1) The American Road (1953) – Documents America’s transportation history with a focus on the development brought about the automobile. Stresses the importance of roads and highways. Includes footage of the Henry Ford, himself, and lots of vintage cars including Ford’s Model T – 37 Minutes (2) Builders Of The Broad Highway (1960s) – Highway building from the ground up and inside out. Everything you want to know about how highways used to be built over fifty years ago – 21 Minutes (3) Conquering Roads (1937) – This film discusses some of the new types of roads that will need to be built such as interstate highways, traffic circles, divided highways, and cloverleafs – 9 Minutes (4) Building A Highway (1937) – Very simplistic yet elegant film that documents early highway construction and the highway construction equipment necessary to build highways such as, bulldozers, road scrappers, and pavers. Great footage of vintage earth moving equipment – 10 Minutes (5) Open Road (1960s-70s?) – Beautiful footage of road and highway construction with great narration synthesizing America’s transportation and automobile history. Focuses on how steel is needed and made for roads, but discusses everything from making engineering highway bridges to earth moving equipment to the citizens who drive on the finished roads – 30 Minutes

History of Road & Highway Construction In America Films DVD: 1920s-60s Earth Moving & Bulldozer Road Equipment Films