The City (1962)

[Music] [Applause] [Music] this freight train is speeding toward a large city it passes farmland and small towns along the way then it comes to the growing outer edge of the city where there are rows and rows of suburban homes it passes the residential district where thousands of people live it passes the industrial districts where many of the people work in factories and Mills and finally the train arrives in the heart of the big city trucks also bring to the people of the city the goods they need and want they bring food for there isn't enough room in the city to grow vegetables or raise cattle from every direction people and goods pour into the city boats bring other material to the city when the city is near water for a city needs bricks and steel and glass to build tall buildings like this to house the offices of thousands of businesses in the Heart of the [Music] City cities like this have grown on the same location where perhaps only a fur Trader's cabin once stood or where two roads crossed and they continue to grow it needs more and more people to manufacture things and perform different [Music] Services as more and more people arrive the buildings get taller and taller and closer and closer together more and more people need more and more stores and a single department store in a big city is like dozens of different smaller stores all put together to house the thousands of people who come to live and work in the city enormous towers of Apartments rise into the sky and Men build these towers with their hands from steel that has been made in Mills by other men and from Stone cut out of quaries because the center of a city is so crowded the only Direction left in which to build is up but away from the crowded Center on a neighborhood street which may look like a street in any small town the day begins like everywhere else with Father going off to work and then his son starting off for school this is Joey and he lives with his family in their own house down the block are apartment buildings where a dozen families live a little further down is an even taller building and across the next street is the building where his friend's family lives with hundreds of other families here one set of Apartments has been set on on top of another and another set on top of that this one building has more people living in it than may live in a single small town is that you Joey come up 28 please all right Joey never gets tired of riding in the fast elevators it takes only seconds for Joey to reach the 28th floor [Music] from the balcony he can see the top of his own house and the swimming pool below he can see the park and the tall buildings in the center of the [Music] city a city is made up of many smaller neighborhoods near the homes are apartments and stores and shops near the tall apartment building is a bicycle [Music] shop a sign painter Works outside a [Music] restaurant there is a grocery store next door the people of a neighborhood depend upon these businessmen where they Supply many different kinds of service the traffic is heavy so there is a police officer to help direct it trucks pass carrying goods to stores and to people's homes fast trains carry people over the crowded streets between the [Music] houses and underneath the tall buildings [Music] but in a neighborhood you can usually walk to where you want to go and Joey and Bob arrive at [Music] School Joey's father drives down a wide Expressway to his [Music] job his car radio tells him about the traffic conditions ahead the carress expressway East and West Bar moving and Southwest Highway is okay east and west found from cico to Western and right now we're flying just passing over many many people come in from every neighborhood from suburbs all around the city even from smaller towns miles [Music] away because a city is so big its problems are big too some of the problems of big cities are studied in the city hall here the city mayor and neighborhood Representatives try to solve these problems and make plans for the city's future the city council decides for example where new housing will be built these models show what it will look like it agrees that areas like this that have fallen into Decay must be removed for a city is a living thing and like any living thing it can grow old but men are able to tear down the old to make room for the new thus a city constantly changes and [Music] grows the city council must also provide men and equipment to protect property firemen may use boats to help put out fires when the city is located near water the city council decides that new highways must be built for the ever growing number of cars bringing people to the city to live or work or just to visit it provides men and equipment to keep the streets and highways clean and to remove the Refuge it provides bright lights for the streets and purchases electricity to light those [Music] lights it provides pure drinking water people who work hard need parks and playgrounds and places to swim some play baseball others prefer to watch they go to a ballpark While others can see it on [Music] television some like to draw others like to see paintings in museums a big city is full of places you can go you can study the past or ride a roller coaster in factories and Mills the people of a city build things they make products for their own use as well as for people in other parts of the country these products leave the city on trains and [Music] Jets by boats and in trucks this then is a city it's a place where many products are [Music] made it's a center of learning and [Music] [Applause] [Music] art many different neighborhoods each like a small town in itself are joined together to make up this larger more exciting Community the city [Music]