AT THIS MOMENT 1954 USA RAILROAD INDUSTRY ADVOCACY FREIGHT TRAINS VS. HIGHWAYS FILM XD31204

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website This color film from 1954, a sponsored film about the importance of the railroad industry in America, is framed around the narrative of railroad workers talking in restaurant. Television producer John OShea (Bill Kennedy) is directed to Scottys, where the crowd inside includes waitress Kelly (Pat Englund), newspaper editor Bill (James Gregory), and Scotty himself (Jock MacGregor). A railway worker sees in a trade magazine that a TV program about railroads is in the works, and this leads Bill to opine aloud about what such a program should include. His narration is interspliced with footage of the rail industry in action. Sitting quietly in the corner, John OShea just so happens to be the producer of that TV show, but he doesnt let on. No one is the wiser until Scotty, Bill and Kelly recognize him on the television a few weeks later, and sure enough, the program