The traffic light may be a device that you have never even thought about ? but have you ever tried to drive without them?! They are a crucial element of our automobile centered society and provide automated traffic coordination on the millions of congested American roads. Seeing Green is a vintage educational film from 1937 about some of the earliest models of traffic lights and how they were developed.
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Seeing Green
Seeing Green
Produced: 1937
Length: 9 Minutes
Speed with safety is the rhythm of all modern transportation. All over the world the control of traffic with safety is of the utmost importance. And how do we control that traffic safely? Automatic traffic signals. Seeing Green, shows the wonder of the traffic light, explaining how they help all over the world, focusing on what they mean for the United States. There are all sorts of traffic lights: ones with words, ones that look like little houses, ones that have amber lights that mean go, and ones that have four progressive lights, depending on the city and state. Mostly shot in black in white, towards the end of the film, it switches to color to emphasize how stop lights are evolving. Seeing Green shows not only the importance of the traffic light, but how traffic specialists attempt to standardize safety lights to ensure speed with safety.
