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13169_10686_earth_movers2

1950s
B&W

A film about the changing machinery and industry in the United States. Giant crane. POV shot from crane operators cabin (at the time one of the biggest land moving vehicles ever built). Machine which hacks down underbrush and scrub (the ‘Bushwacker’). Trackless train runs on rubber tires. Three tractors plowing a field with men walking behind. Ditching machine which prepares for pipe laying.