# 1920s EDUCATIONAL FILM “ TRANSPORTATION ” HORSES TROLLEY CARS TRAINS 79704

This silent film from the 1920’s was to be shown in classroom as a teaching tool. It shows various methods of transportation across the globe including modern methods as well as more primitive methods. It was edited by Don Carlos Ellis (:12). Footage opens the film of city streets with inhabitants in traditional 1920’s style attire as a trolley or streetcar / tram rides through the streets (:45). A steam locomotive pulls a train round a bend along a large hill (:52). An American style steam engine with a prominent spark catching chimney takes a pit stop at in a rural location (1:10). A close up shot of the 1920’s steam engine follows (1:20). A third train moves from Brownsville to Port Isabel, Texas (1:30), most likely on the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway. A man is seen atop a horse riding over a wooden bridge as many still used horses as a form of locomotion (1:51). Mules ride down steep jagged and rocky terrain with packs atop their backs (2:06). A one-horse carriage is seen alongside a trolley (2:25). This is followed by a man and woman in a two wheeled cart pulled by a small donkey (2:40). Natives and burrows move down a dirt road with large packs (2:55) and some are seen carrying the packs atop their heads (3:00). Scenes from the Arctic or Alaska show a man amidst huskies as they begin to drag a dog sled forward (3:08). In the Andes, llamas are loaded up with cargo (3:20) and a heard of free llamas follows (3:45). Oxen drag forward Cambodia cabs in India…

- Kind: Educational
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/79704-transportation-mos)
- 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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