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Divided highways
Title
Divided highways [electronic resource (video)] / Florentine Films.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c1997.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (85 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Sept. 23, 2006.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
It has altered our sense of space, fueled our mega-economy, knifed into the hearts of thriving city neighborhoods, and changed the lives of millions of people in the 40 years it's taken to build. This program about the Interstate Highway System combines archival material, newsreels, and interviews to describe the impact of what has been called the world's largest public works project. The Interstate's effect on community, culture, regionalism, and freedom is considered, as are the ideals, motives, and methods of its builders who helped bind a nation together.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Florentine Films, 1997
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
10 & up.
Contents
America's Interstate Highway System (6:49)
Automobile: 20th Centurys Defining Technology (3:35)
First National System of Roads (4:42)
America On the Move (3:52)
Pennsylvania Turnpike (5:37)
Post-World War II Prosperity (2:27)
Automobiles and Changing Urban Landscape (3:39)
Eisenhower and America's Interstates (5:19)
World's Largest Public Works Project (3:21)
Highways and Public Education (5:28)
Clearance for Highway Construction (2:40)
Highway Planners and Racial Discrimination (5:25)
Highway Department vs. Citizens (5:04)
Boston's Beltway Controversy (6:09)
Transportation and Public Architecture (5:58)
America's Highway Communities (4:32)
America's Oil Dependency (1:57)
America's Freeway Culture (5:02)
Videorecording number
7204 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Florentine Films.
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