1950s HIGHWAY / FREEWAY CONSTRUCTION FOOTAGE CAT D9 BULLDOZER, 633C ELEVATING SCRAPER XD42255

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This untitled, uncredited black-and-white silent home-style movie chronicles the process behind constructing a highway and connecting roads. Likely dating to the late 1940s or early 1950s, the film, which is set in a rural area of what is likely the United States, depicts the different steps behind constructing a highway from clearing the land to pouring and flattening the concrete. The film features lots of scenes of the machinery involved from what appears to be a CAT 633C Elevating Scraper to a CAT D9 Track-Type Dozer among others. Film opens, aerial view from small plane of agricultural farmland below; Close-up of highways running through vast fielded areas (0:08). Partially cleared field, what appears to be CAT 633C Elevating Scraper drives over soil (1:02). CAT D9 Track-Type Dozer follows a CAT 633C around field area (1:42). Young boy stands to the side and excitedly observes the large tractors at work, runs into field and climbs into the CAT D9 (1:50). Close-up as perhaps father shows young boy how to operate the machinery (2:16). Number of tractors, bulldozers, and earthmovers drive through flattened area, move and overturn soil (3:26). Shot of cement plant seen across the road, cement kiln towers over 1940s/1950s-era cars parked nearby (4:31). Crane guides scoop shovel down into gravel, gravel dropped onto loading hopper, falls onto truck waiting below (4:48). Scene changes to beginnings of highway being paved, area packed with various pick-up and construction trucks, workmen set down wire screens and heavy steel track across road; Hammer in big steel stakes to hold track (5:07). Bucket attached to pulley system and concrete mixing truck drops concrete mix along road (5:32). Machine that cuts grooves into concrete (6:14). Young boy from earlier runs across work area and climbs into what appears to be similar to Adams 1950’s Motor Grader (6:24). POV from driver’s seat as motor grader drives along worksite (6:05). Return to aerial view, shots of completed highways and stretches of road winding through rural area (6:55). Film ends (7:56). Motion picture films don’t last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we’ve worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you’d like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit