The Green City (1963, sound)

Description: "Shows how green space and open space is being thoughtlessly gobbled up by the urbanizing process. Demonstrates how development can take place without excessive destruction and illustrates various situations in different parts of the country. Describes man's changing environment and foretells the consequences if this change is permitted to take place without careful planning." - Library of Congress, The National Union Catalog, Motion Pictures and Filmstrips, 1963-1967

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Subjects: 1960s, Cities, Politics and government, Suburbia, Parks and monuments, Extractive industries, Environmental issues

Tags: New York City skyline; aerials; woods; fires; destruction; logging; bulldozers; backhoe; aerials of suburban sprawl; aerial of suburban shopping center; preservation; landscapes; suburbia; suburban housing construction; flyby Washington Monument; aerial Lincoln Memorial; World War II-era temporary government structures; Rock Creek Park; Glover Archibold Park; Coney Island; Breezy Point; dunes; Lake Michigan; Indiana Dunes State Park; crowded beach; "No Beer or Alcoholic Beverages Permitted on Beach" sign; "No Picnicking or Dogs" sign; bathing suits; swimsuits; swimming; beach balls; children; painting en plein air; beach scenes; driftwood; barbed wire fences; San Francisco cable cars; hills; horseback riding; "No Public Access to Beach" sign; "Property Owners & Guests Entrance to Beach" sign; "Sold" sign; soil conservation; climbing forest fire tower in Missouri; Missouri Conservation Commission ranger; forest fire control; seal lions; deer; Rockwoods Reservation, Missouri; Saint Louis suburban district; fire towers; children climbing fire tower stairs; field trips; students; cactus; saguaros; high desert; new housing subdivision; Tucson Mountain Park; fires; orange trees; farmland; orange groves; Stream Valley Park; new concepts in town planning; Washington, D.C. plan for year 2000; J.E.B. Stuart Park Advisory Committee; freeways; girls hopping rocks in a stream; climate change; Point Reyes land acquisition; The Conservation Roundtable; development; privatization; David S. Adams; For Sale sign; dogs; horses; music; trees falling; log burning; city planning; crowded beach; recreation; conservation; Point Reyes National Seashore; climate change

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Stuart Finley

Credits: Produced and Narrated by Stuart Finley
Photographed and Edited by Theodore Jones
Inspired by The Conservation Roundtable

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1963

Geographical Location: New York, New York; New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Indiana; San Francisco, California; Point Reyes Peninsula; Missouri; Tucson, Arizona; Los Angeles County, California; Maryland; USA; New York; Pennsylvania; California; Arizona; Point Reyes National Seashore

Genre/Form: educational

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: color

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code: triangle plus

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 829