“ THE BIG WIDE HIGHWAY ” 1955 CORONET CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONAL FILM INTERSTATE HIGHWAY MD10074

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1955 color educational film from Coronet, produced in collaboration with educator Margaret Keysler Hill of the Reading Clinic at the State University of Iowa, takes a leisurely look at a father and son’s trip from a farm to a market to sell turkeys, in a soothing short aimed at young audiences whose understanding of the world around them is still taking shape (TRT: 10:13). The film was made roughly a year before President Eisenhower’s campaign to install interstate highways nationally. Opening titles: “A Coronet Film” (0:08). We meet Sammy and his father, farmers taking turkeys to market in a 1940s International KB series pickup truck. Mother waves goodbye to the flannel-clad father and his son (0:33). The truck drives a rural gravel road, with a silo visible in the background. The truck turns onto a paved road (1:12). Passing cars and trucks on a highway (1:5