# Cities: How They Grow (Second Edition)

A study of our increasing urban population. Departing from the usual statistics and the sociological problems which are a result of the cities' growth, we learn that by observing what the workers of the city do, we can find out why the city grew. A CITY IS DEFINED & AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO SHOW THAT IT CONSISTS OF 2 KINDS OF PEOPLE - "BUILDERS" & "FILLERS". ASPECTS OF GREAT CITIES SHOWN; WHY CITIES DIE & ARE KNOWN AS "GHOST TOWNS". Many stock shots that need to be logged. 21:01:26:29 1950s urban people crossing street, camera pans from people up high-rise building, probably in New York City. 21:01:50:05 High-angle 1950s cars on highway driving away from camera toward big city in distance. 21:02:19:26 VS covered wagons; river boat with two large smokestacks producing trails of black smoke. 21:03:03:04 Antique head saw at old-fashioned sawmill cutting log in two. 21:03:14:08 Pan up large pipes of 1940s to 1950s oil refinery; VS steel mill. 21:03:41:05 Great shot of large cattle farm; sheep herded into livestock transportation train car. 21:04:18:24 VS workers, men and women, working in cotton mill; machines spooling cotton yarn; CU machinery. 21:04:36:24 Reenactment of immigrants around 1900 waiting to be examined at an immigration entrance facility; MS doctor holding stethoscope examines the eyes of an immigrant wearing hat with shabby beard. 21:04:45:24 CU harvester combine tractor plowing through field of grain. 21:05:04:17 CU freight train pulls away from camera, train…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1952
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0544_Cities_How_They_Grow_Second_Edition_14_19_59_02)
- 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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