This Is New England (1940s)

Promotional film by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company about New England in the 1940s. 1940s, New England, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, promotional films, industry, manufacturing, waves crashing onto rocky coast, rivers, rapids, forests, hills, farming, fishing industry, shipbuilding, map showing trade to and from New England during colonial era, development of industry and manufacturing since colonial era to present day, industrial revolution, leather goods, rope making, spinning, weaving, metal, watermill, various goods created by New England craftsmen, Bunker Hill Monument, expansion of railroad throughout New England, plants, factories, steam plants, hydroelectric power plants, power system, power lines, transmission towers, deepwater ports, cargo being unloaded from cargo ships and loaded onto trains, raw materials being transported by rail, Cedar Hill Yard, factory workers working on machines and manufacturing goods, metal worker, textile mills, leather and hide industries, paper industry, pulp and paper mills, brass and copper industry, building components for construction industry, clocks, watches, speedometers, silversmiths, hardware, gun making, manufacturing of metal parts, aircraft manufacturing, defense, shipbuilding, rope making machine, commercial fishing, Boston Fish Pier, fish being unloaded from trawlers, scientific research, commercial and technical laboratories, plastics, typewriters, sewing machines, goods being transported on railroad, Massachusetts State House, Providence, Industrial National Bank Building, Rhode Island State Capital, cargo being transported by New Haven railroad

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