# An International Study of American Roads

An International Study of American Roads Produced: 1932 Description This moving image includes T.H. MacDonald, Chief, Bureau of Public Roads, who introduces the picture. Reel 1 shows Government buildings in Washington, D.C.; Mount Vernon and the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway under construction; maps showing the route followed by the touring international delegates; buses leaving Washington, D.C., and passing through Miami, Florida, and St. Simons Island, Georgia; antebellum mansions in the South; and a Black boy dancing. Reel 2 shows views of North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains; Virginia's Natural Bridge; Philadelphia's Independence Hall; Valley Forge; the Philadelphia-Camden toll bridge; the Holland Tunnel; the New York City skyline and crowds in the city; the recently completed Empire State Building; airplanes over the George Washington Bridge; boulevards in Westchester County; the Boston Post Road to New York City; Niagara Falls; Duluth, Minnesota, and iron mines nearby; a school children's pageant honoring the delegates; a war dance performed by Sac Indians In Iowa; Chicago's Lake Shore Drive; a University of Michigan football game in Ann Arbor; the Dodge Auto plant in Detroit; and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. Reel 3 maps the interrelation between Federal and State roads using North Carolina roads as an example. Charts depict the growth of auto registrations, 1900-1930. The moving image also shows the hand construction of roads, types of road machinery, and a concrete…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1932
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33-425-r1)
- 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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