# Airport America

Film about the evolution of the aviation industry and development of regional airports throughout the United States. Discusses usefulness of airplanes to farmers, ranchers, families, vacationers, fish and wildlife services, and pipe and power line patrolmen. Advocates increased airport construction, especially in rural America. Describes the centrality of general aviation to the U.S. economy. Library of Congress Card Number Fi54-333 Partial shot list: Many aerials of American townscapes, farms throughout Steam train Couple cranking and driving old cranked automobile (supposed to be 1903) Rutted road Crowded Los Angeles freeway – many cars in one direction, few in another The “Stack” near downtown Los Angeles Old barnstorming pilot; well-dressed couple gets out of old biplane Passengers at North Platte, Nebraska 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, Mississippi 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…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1954
- By: Film Originals
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Airport_America)
- 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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