Our Shrinking World

Our Shrinking World

Rejissyor: Young America Films, Inc.. Shows the development of transportation and communication, and the resultant bringing together of the world. Great footage of technological developments in transportation and communication technology. Great metaphor for early globalization theory in image of the planet shrinking. 23:21:17:14 VS poor rural Chinese children breaking rocks with hammers. 23:21:32:02 VS Over fifty Chinese men pulling large roller to flatten land for airfield; great shot Chinese boy guiding the roller looks into camera with curiosity. Narration: “Yes a real highway, on airfield packed out of the same kind of ancient stones, mud and water, with which their ancestors once built a land barrier so that they could live in isolation.” 23:22:06:13 VS the Great Wall of China. 23:22:16:00 Great CU slowly rotating globe beginning with Africa in center of frame moving toward South America. 23:22:21:12 VS of natural barriers: “Broad Oceans” rolling tide at sunset; “High mountains” snowcapped mountains; “Endless desert” shrub spotted desert with long path or road splitting apart the landscape; “Forests and rivers” river cutting through mountainous forest; “Dense jungles”. 23:22:44:05 Two Chinese babies carried in two baskets by mother. 23:23:00:20 Donkeys carrying luggage. 23:24:10:27 Graphic animation of spinning earth in clouds shrinking, leaving a ring where its perimeter used to reach. 23:24:22:27 Covered wagons trekking through rocky terrain and plains. 23:24:30:22 Great VS of early steam train moving up to 15 mph. 23:24:58:12 VS steam river boats (on the Mississippi ?); big black smoke stack coming out of boat’s exhaust. 23:25:12:16 CU hand tapping out message on telegraph. 23:25:21:03 Woman talking on very early telephone. 23:25:30:18 Spinning globe with ring around it shrinks to leave second ring where former perimeter once reached. Narration over shot: “With these new forms of transportation and communication the earths vast distances were losing their power to keep people apart. Our world wa

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