# Airport America

Advocates increased airport construction, especially in rural America. Describes the centrality of general aviation to the U.S. economy. Many aerials of American townscapes, farms throughout Steam train Couple cranking and driving old cranked automobile (supposed to be 1903) Rutted road Crowded LA freeway – many cars in one direction, few in another The “Stack” near downtown LA Old barnstorming pilot; well-dressed couple gets out of old biplane Passengers at North Platte airport VS crowds at airport Passengers greeting plane Skeletons of new terminal buildings under construction VS aerials and street-level shots of small American towns (good) Aerial small-town airport Old yellow-cab station wagon pulling in at small-town airport VS small-town airports Sign: Vicksburg Airport, Vicksburg, Miss. VS small private planes at small airports Man whitewashing lines on stones to form control boundary at small airport Aerials of rural airports Construction and survey crews at small airports (VS) VS harvestable crops (wheat sheaves) VS wheat harvesting with 2 combines and trucks Man painting cropduster – sign “South Carolina Aerial Surveying Service Inc.” VS man starting engine on biplane VS biplane cropdusting CU pilot with goggles looking into and onside of camera which is placed in cockpit of cropduster (good obsessive image showing cropdusting) Farmer paying check to pilot Airplane lands in field to deliver spare part to harvesting combine (music same as Goodbye Mr. Roach hatching…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1954
- By: Film Originals; National Association of State Aviation Officials
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0316AirportAmerica)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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