movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Southwestern States
- Year
- 1950
- Abstract
- Exploitating vast spaces Some good shots, but mostly a typical circa 1950 film treatment of a high school geography textbook subject. Only 10 cities over 100,000 population in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona combined! Note how oil fields are mapped consistent with the US - Mexico border, how Texas produced up to a quarter of the world's petroleum, and how the oil from fields on Indian lands were the backbone of Oklahoma's economy. Cities new and clean and without smoke. An interesting moment in history.
- Notes
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Produced: N/A
Sponsor: N/A
Run Time: 22:00
Audio/Visual: Sd, b&w - Keyword
- Oil fields;United States;United States
- Theme
- Oil fields -- United States
- Review
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Exploitating vast spaces
Some good shots, but mostly a typical circa 1950 film treatment of a high school geography textbook subject. Only 10 cities over 100,000 population in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona combined! Note how oil fields are mapped consistent with the US - Mexico border, how Texas produced up to a quarter of the world's petroleum, and how the oil from fields on Indian lands were the backbone of Oklahoma's economy. Cities new and clean and without smoke. An interesting moment in history.
(Reviewer: Steve Nordby) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F