TRAVEL IN AMERICA IN THE 1840s STEAMSHIPS, CANALS, STAGECOACHES & TRAINS (B&W Version) PH56094

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1957 black and white educational film about 1840s travel in the U.S. was produced by Coronet Instructional Films. The educational collaborator was Lewis Paul Todd, Ph.D., author and former Professor of Social Studies at New York University. The film’s narration begins in New York in 1840, where the narrator is working as a blacksmith under his grandfather’s watchful eye. The sound of hammer on anvil is heard (:42-1:20). A stagecoach arrives, having lost a rim from a wheel (1:21-1:53). Stagecoaches were also used in the late 1700s. Depicted are men dressed in capes and tri-corned hats (1:54-2:04). Two horses pull an open carriage. Such vehicles caused roads to be built, connecting towns together (2:05-2:20). Back at the blacksmith shop, the boy rolls a wooden wheel with a metal rim, shown up close as a symbol of how these vehicles travelled. The repaired wheel