"CALL OF THE OPEN ROAD" 1957 ODE TO THE AMERICAN ROAD TRIP NEW JERSEY TO CANADA XD55094
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This fascinating, seemingly amateur-made film is entitled “Call of the Open Road” (1957). It was made by Hugh Randolph / Hugh Randolph Productions. (Randolph was a member of the SMPTE, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a professional organization.) This movie, which also can be seen as a paean to the American road trip, is narrated by Mary Harker and John Barry, and features music "by Erickson". Other credits are given for the soundtrack, which was recorded onto the print using a magnetic stripe (as opposed to via optical sound).
(0:20) Opening credits and shots of license plates (2:50) Wide shots of the New Jersey Turnpike and toll booth as cars drive by, motels and inns frequented by travelers, and close-ups of various state license plates (4:22) Driver training is shown at high schools introduce future drivers to safe driving. Cars are driven competitively through skill-based courses (5:05) Horses and cattle in the countryside to waves crashing on an unnamed beach as people fish and bring their boat in (7:20) A harvested corn field to yellow and red trees of the fall season lined up by the side of a road (8:38) Cars driving by for the American Hill Climb auto race on Eagle Rock Ave. in West Orange, NJ, an event that originally started as a test of different vehicles’ power and endurance as they climbed up a hill (9:52) Snowfall with trees in the background (10:41) Ice boats skimming the surface of a frozen lake (12:26) Close-ups of flowers blooming during springtime. Cherry blossoms in Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ (13:19) People rest on the park’s grass and ride boats on the lake (14:05) Sailing into Tangier Island in Virginia, a small island comprised of descendants of colonial settlers (15:15) Front yards on the island serve as private cemeteries for the immediate families. Due to the size of the roads, locals commute on scooters (16:30) The remaining buildings of Deserted Island in Monmouth County, NJ, including shops, a furnace, and collapsed homes (18:27) Niagara Falls. Visitors stand around and view the scenery (19:32) A whirlpool after the river passes the falls. The Rainbow International Bridge leads into Canada (20:11) On the Canadian side with the Horseshoe Falls and a decorated plaza in Ontario (22:07) Lambert Castle in Paterson, NJ (23:00) Gingerbread Castle, based on a Grimm brothers fairy tale. Includes fairytale figures such as Humpty Dumpty on a wall (24:14) Gillette Castle State Park in East Haddam, CT (25:20) Philipse Castle in Westchester County, NY (26:10) The Gettysburg Battlefield. Various shots of Lincoln statues, memorials, battlefields, canons, and graveyards (28:15) The seaport of Mystic, CT, including churches, shops, the docks, and homes (30:17) The Charles W. Morgan ship, the last of an American whaling fleet that included more than 2,700 vessels (30:35) The Joseph Conrad, an iron-hulled sailing ship, originally launched as Georg Stage in 1882 and used to train sailors in Denmark (31:13) The Trolley Museum in East Windsor, CT that preserves trolleys from various American cities. Trolleys carry riders and drive across the tracks (32:50) The taillights of cars on an unnamed freeway illuminate the road as the sun sets.
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A truly great nation America is.
Was.....
The people are still great, it's the government that needs an attitudinal adjustment
@@Truth_Hurts528 ,
As long as the Constitution of the United States exists America is still great.
It's true that both the Democrats and Republicans and the Woke NPCs have done much to damage the US she still has the bones of the greatest country to ever have been created.
@@barto4678 ,
True.
@@freedomforever6718 They need the Major Payne treatment, but people won't stand up. I have no kids or grandkids, but if my fighting and dying could make America better for the future generations, then I'm ok with that. Hopefully I can at least take a few of them out before they kill me. It's coming time to decide if we want to die on our knees begging for our lives, or on our feet fighting for our lives. Hell, even if we fight and lose, at least we can say we fought.
omg! ... at 5:42 .... "The cattle reclined suspiciously"... rotflmao .... THE CATTLE RECLINED SUSPICIOUSLY. That is priceless! Right up there with "It was a dark and stormy night".... omg....
Seen that gingerbread castle many times, Humpty is still there but the site is a complete ruin.
Reminds me of those films you would see at film clubs back in the day. We had one at university as late as the 1990s. People got together to discuss films, film--making ,et, and there would be opportunities for members to screen their stuff and receive usually constructive criticism. In the days before non-linear editing and Premiere Pro, stuff like titles and synchronised soundtracks were time-consuming. TH-cam has a fascinating Kodak training film (th-cam.com/video/e_JOKl7tJ7c/w-d-xo.html) somewhere, from the early 70s showing the convoluted process for editing film with magnetic soundtracks. Though it was so much more of a chore, you did get a ton of satisfaction from the finished product!
Editing the film itself is actually a much more intuitive process than software because it relies on the muscle memory of using your hands and everything from cutting vegetables to writing letters to driving a (classic) car comes into play, constantly practicing subconsciously. It doesn't take long to become proficient at it, even less if you already have some of that classic muscle memory built up. Linear editing systems such as those using video tape are also inherently more intuitive because of the knobs and sliders used on the hardware. Dimmer switches, stereo tone and volume knobs, so on and so forth.
The syncing was done by ear, which really once you develop that ear for it is much easier than trying to match timecodes to the decimal deliberately. Not sure if i'm preaching to the choir here but as someone who was born in 1994 and came of age with windows vista software video editing and a taste mostly for stuff from before i was born that has consumed my life, this side of the whole thing doesn't seem to get talked about much, nor does the continued availability of new manufacture medium, mechanism and media that is of comparable quality to the originals. You can shoot, develop and edit a 16mm film and have the edit finalized onto filmstock for projection today if you are so inclined. You can shoot, edit and print a videotape just as easy.
Gotta love a cow that wears a padlock on it’s head!
Ahh the good old days when you have drivers ed as part of your high school curriculum, now they just through them the keys and hope for the best.
20 seconds of scratched leader? should have been trimmed out. Also, that music sounds something for beatniks to smoke "reefer" by. Dig it, Daddy-O!
Someday, our science will have progressed so far we will be able to tease amazing information from all those scratched leaders.... except the ones we trimmed out.
First, what do I win? A 57' bel air please!
'57 Imperial convertible please
@@braininavatnow9197 With a little skill & an adapter plate, that '74 Pinto engine, hanging off-of the trans axle of a V.W. Beetle, makes for a most exiting rail buggy!
@@braininavatnow9197 "Esslinger Engineering Inc" sold that stuff.
There were more General Motors cars on the roads back then than anything
@@braininavatnow9197 Or any in 1957.
@@braininavatnow9197 Saw a Beetle convertable ~17:30.
We don't need any stupid diverging diamonds or bicycle lanes, just these cars on our roads and that's why America is the best
Diverging diamonds can save lives and bicycle lanes promotes bike safety and so they aren’t on the sidewalk or in car lanes. Bicycles can be a better alternative than driving if the distance you want to go is too short for a car but too long to walk.
Laughin my sox of
Back when America was CRIME FREE❤️🔥 when AMERICANS LOVED, AND RESPECTED AMERICA❤️🔥
OUR FLAG AND OUR HISTORY❤️🇺🇸
God bless America...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Nice to meet you.yo- incredible !see you later.👍
2:00 is all i can take with that annoying counter and black box obscuring and distracting the video. may as well tape over that Bye Will not even comment on another video if i get sucked in.
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We need to have driver's ed again. People coming on to the highways especially the interstate merge into traffic. That doesn't mean bully your way in jump in front of the car as far up as you can. You pull in behind the car that's driving the traffic on the road doesn't merge with you he merge with them! But then what do we expect that me me me generation now has kids driving! Now let's not say it's everybody out there doing this although sometimes it seems like it. And just because you drive a little car that you think is quick remember send me big trucks compared to your low car that you park in the back of their pickup beds can move pretty quick to. So many of them are from the me generation as well and they liable just to run your butt over. I don't recommend math fact I detest road rage. But if each one of us drives as if the other guys in lunatic then the traffic would flow much smoother. Niagara falls been there a couple of times it's interesting how much difference it was back in 1950 something. Remember life is no simpler than than it is now. I mean he had MacArthur headed to invade China. He had china p*** over into what we now call North korea. He had a man and there were no women there. He had a soldiers in the tanks at the reservoir who were overwhelmed. They had put four dead bodies on top of them to see that survive so the bayonet when you come to all the bodies and get them as a head outside. Because your tanks became ice chest. So yeah life is simply back then. No it wasn't. Memorial story is that's all work together in a positive way and look forward while not forgetting our past so we don't be stupid the same way again.
..We need to have driver's ed again, with Auto Insurance discounts for those who pass!
@@lilblackduc7312 yes you're right! Of course the idea is that people would become better drivers as well. I don't understand why they just throw a 16-year-old into 2 to 4,000 pounds of steel capable of causing massive damage. Without any basic education. You take safety classes if you're into guns. You know for hunting and what have you. Heck when we're all very very young they potty train us well like I said you're right driver's ed is needed and the discounts would be nice
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Maybe you & I just think using 'too much common sense' for today's culture? 😁
@@lilblackduc7312 Amen!! Now that common sense is so scarce would it make what used to be called common sense uncommon Sense now?