America—Yesterday and Today

Duration: 10 min

Genre: Social Science

Creator: National Industrial Council

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: A screen editorial showing how the primitive hand labor of yesterday has been transformed into the machine industry of today, regardless of scoffers who always insisted that the new things "would not work." Individualism lauded as cause of past, present, and future progress. Formerly released as "Let's Go, America. Part I."

Metadata Source:Bell & Howell Filmosound Library Catalog of Educational Motion Pictures, 1942