Engineering Films -
7-DVD Box Set

Disc 1:
Vintage Mechanical Engineering Films (1950s - 1960s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Two (2) classic life insurance films focused on career opportunities
and the benefits life insurance companies provide to the surrounding
communities.

Title #1:Mechanical
Engineering at Dupont

Production Date:
1960

Running Time: 21
minutes

Brief Description:
Vintage Dupont recruiting
video with excellent footage of Dupont factories and plants with a focus on the
role of there mechanical engineers.

Title #1:To
Enrich Mankind

Production Date:
1955

Running Time: 22
minutes

Brief Description:
A historical look at how
machines have improved the quality of life for humans from the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.

Discs 2 & 3: Vintage
US Highways Construction & Planning Films (1930s - 1970s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD:
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.

Topics Include:

American Roads & Highway Development

Interstate & Highways Engineering & Planning

Highways & Economic Growth

Urban Sprawl & The Takings Clause

History of Building America's Roads & Highways

US Highway & Road Construction

Highways & America's Economy

Urbanization & Urban Sprawl

Early Earth Moving & Paving Equipment

Henry Ford's Model T

Disc I:

Title #1:
American Road



Production Date:1953

Running Time: 37
minutes

Brief Description:
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. Strong emphasis on the freedom that owning a personal
automobile provides to Americans.

Title #2:
Builders Of The Broad Highway

Production Date:
1960's

Running Time: 21
minutes

Brief Description:
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.

Title #3:
Conquering Roads

Production Date:
1937

Running Time: 9
minutes

Brief Description:
With the number of Americans purchasing automobiles growing astronomically
during the 30's the need for road improvement was essential to America's
growth. 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.

Title #4:
Building A Highway

Production Date:1937

Running Time: 10
minutes

Brief Description:
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.

Title #5: Open
Road

Production Date:
19602-70s

Running Time: 30
minutes

Brief Description:
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. Shows how with heavy machinery man can now shape the
earth to make roads instead of shaping roads around the contours of the land.

Disc II

Title #1: Freedom
of the American Road

Production Date:
1955

Running Time: 27
minutes

Brief Description:
Henry Ford introduces this brilliant film that documents traffic problems when
traffic jams were in their infancy. This propaganda film was made to encourage
citizens to demand more government spending on road maintenance and for new
roads to be built because of the dangers of traffic jams and the cost of
traffic. The importance of roads for the American economy and communications are
also thoroughly discussed.

Title #2: Highway
Hearing

Production Date:
1956

Running Time: 29
minutes

Brief Description:
Town meeting with citizens and highway engineers about the development of a new
bypass going around the town of Connersville. This film brings up the issues of
takings clauses (the highway will new lots of farm land to build on) and how
highways effect local economies. A very informative and fair film that looks at
both sides of the argument.

Title #3: America
On Wheels

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description:
"This is the story of an American Revolution - - the coming of the
automobile." A fun and interesting short film about some of the first cats ever
made.

Title #4: Key To
Our Horizons

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description:
Discusses the importance of the motor car to the American worker and how one out
of every seven workers works in the automobile industry. This film was made when
Americans owned 50 million cars.

Title #5: To New
Horizons

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description:
General Motors film made for the 1940 world's fair that promotes roads as one of
America's new horizons on the path to success. "Progress on all the highways of
human activity leads us to more opportunities for employment and an ever
widening range of goods made evermore plentiful."

Title #6: Your
Permit To Drive

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description:
This film teaches people to respect automobiles and to understand that driving
is a privilege because after all, "the automobile....brought with it a new way
of life, a new standard of living, a standard of living matched by no other
nation in the world."

Title #7: Give
Yourself The Green Light

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description:
Amazing propaganda film aimed at encourage citizens to ask for more a new
interstates to promote the economy and new jobs. "We are running out of
roads....we didn't dream big enough."

Title #8: Big
Delivery Wagon

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description:
The importance of roads to the Heinz company. A bizarre and really fun film
about highways and ketchup.

Disc 4: Vintage
Airline Engineering & Design Films (1950s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Classic airplane design and engineering films featuring footage of the
North American F-107A. Design aspects for airplanes are discussed as well as
radar and navigation systems.

Title #1: Dial D
For Design

Production Date:
1950's

Running Time: 29
Minutes

Brief Description:
A behind the scenes look at airplane engineering and development. Technical and
design aspects of airplane engineering and design are at discusses at length in
this fascinating airplane engineering film.

Title #2:
Sentinel In The Sky

Production Date:
1955

Running Time: 15
minutes

Brief Description:
Animated
classic about the development and importance of radar to navigation systems for
airplanes.

Disc 5: Classic Bridges
Films (1930s - 1950s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This compilation features films about the marvels and, sometimes,
disasters of bridge building and engineering. From the notorious Tacoma Bridge
collapse to the opening of the famous Golden Gate Bridge, these films explore
the wonders and beauty of bridges.

Title #1: Tacoma
Fire Dept: Tacoma Bridge

Production Date:
1940s

Running Time: 4
minutes

Brief Description:
This film includes very rare footage of the Tacoma Bridge collapse in 1940. The
bridge shakes and bends until this civil engineering design disaster crumbles to
the ground. This film is silent.

Title #2: San
Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge Groundbreaking

Production Date:
1932

Running Time: 7
minutes

Brief Description: President
Herbert Hoover gives a speech at the groundbreaking of the San Francisco -
Oakland Bay Bridge construction. This film is silent.

Title #3: Golden
Gate Bridge Opening

Production Date:
1936

Running Time: 4
minutes

Brief Description:
Automobiles race across The Golden Gate Bridge on
opening day of the famous bridge in San Francisco. This film is silent.

Title #4:
Bridging San Francisco Bay

Production Date:
1937

Running Time: 16
minutes

Brief Description:
US Steel produced this wonderful film about the construction of the San
Francisco - Oakland Bay Suspension Bridge.

Title #5: Amateur
film: Golden Gate Bridge

Production Date:
1939

Running Time: 10
minutes

Brief Description:
This silent amateur footage includes a brief glimpse of the new Golden Gate
Bridge during the San Francisco Worlds Fair Exposition. The film includes
scenes from all the bay city.

Title #6: Bridge
for the Yaque

Production Date:
1950s

Running Time: 14
minutes

Brief Description:
This film explores bridge building by US Steel in the Dominican Republic.
Aspects of bridge engineering and design are discussed as this film presents the
importance of bridges to society.

Disc 6: Automobile
Engineering & Design Films
(1940s - 1960s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This is an interesting look at the American automobile engineering
industry of the early to mid 20th century. Many of the films discuss the
marvels and importance of American engineering across the board and often make
reference to hydro power as another great American engineering accomplishment.
Strong emphasis on how engineering creates a more efficient productive and
happier America.

Topics Include:

American Automobile Engineering

Early Car Stylist & Designers

American Engineering & The Economy

Title #1:
American Engineer

Production Date:
1956

Running Time: 27
minutes

Brief Description:
Film takes a look at, "Engineers, men of energy, masters of dynamics."
Discusses advancements in American engineering such as hydro power, automobile
engineering, precision volume manufacturing and much more.

Title #2:
American Look

Production Date:
1958

Running Time: 28
minutes

Brief Description:
How an engineer goes through many layers of refinement improvement and
revision to produce new sleek more efficient productive and beautiful designs.
Shows some of the work of early American auto engineers.

Title #3: Styling
& The Experimental Car

Production Date:
1960's

Running Time: 16
minutes

Brief Description:
How the concept of the modern car was