These films helped paved the way to paving America. This propaganda films collection explains to audiences how roads and highways will lead America to economic success. The theory goes as follows, "progress on all the highways of human activity leads us to more opportunities for employment and an ever widening range of goods made evermore plentiful." After all, "the automobile....brought with it a new way of life, a new standard of living, a standard of living matched by no other nation in the world." Table Of Contents: (1) Freedom of the American Road (1955) - Henry Ford introduces this brilliant film that documents traffic problems when traffic jams were in their infancy - 27 Minutes (2) Highway Hearing (1956) - Town meeting with citizens and highway engineers about the development of a new bypass going around the town of Connersville - 29 Minutes (3) America On Wheels (1950s) - "This is the story of an American Revolution - - the coming of the automobile." A fun and interesting short film about some of the first cats ever made - 7 Minutes (4) Key To Our Horizons (1952) - Discusses the importance of the motor car to the American worker and how one out of every seven workers works in the automobile industry - 11 Minutes (5) To New Horizons (1940) - General Motors film made for the 1940 world's fair that promotes roads as one of America's new horizons on the path to success - 23 Minutes (6) Your Permit To Drive (1951) - This film teaches people to respect automobiles and to understand that driving is a privilege because after all, "the automobile....brought with it a new way of life, a new standard of living, a standard of living matched by no other nation in the world." - 7 Minutes (7) Give Yourself The Green Light (1954) - Amazing propaganda film aimed at encourage citizens to ask for more a new interstates to promote the economy and new jobs - 22 Minutes (8) Big Delivery Wagon (1951) - The importance of roads to the Heinz company - 12 Minutes
