- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of interstate highway construction in Georgia set to "The Day They Built the Road," with words by Rod McKuen and music by Anita Kerr, from their 1967 album The Earth
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- McKuen, Rod
- Date of Original:
- 1948/1981
- Subject:
- Interstate Highway System
Roads--Design and construction
Roads--Songs and music
Transportation
Monologues with music - People:
- McKuen, Rod
Kerr, Anita - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This is a series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of interstate highway construction in Georgia. The audio consists of Rod McKuen reading "The Day They Built the Road" with music by Anita Kerr, taken from their 1967 concept album The Earth with the San Sebastian Strings. Footage opens with cars and trucks on a finished highway and earthmoving equipment loading dirt into a truck. A shot of a single house surrounded by trees on a hill pans down to a road under construction. There are contrasting shots of an open grassy field bordered by trees, a stream, and earthmoving equipment on a steep hill. The camera lingers on a close-up shot of yellow flowering plants with bees. A field with flowering shrubs and wire fence in the foreground is shown, followed by an upward-looking shot of the sun shining through pine branches. The final minute of footage cycles through additional shots of nature, construction equipment, the house, and highway traffic.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn40355
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn40355
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn40355
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn40355/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn40355, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of interstate highway construction in Georgia set to "The Day They Built the Road," with words by Rod McKuen and music by Anita Kerr, from their 1967 album The Earth, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0854, 55:51/60:26, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 4 mins., 35 secs.): color, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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