Modern Commerce (1928, silent)

Description: Survey of 1920s-era transport of goods including use of sail ships, navigation with sextants, and major routes and ports.

From title screen: A Film Lesson in "World Geography"

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Subjects: 1920s,Commerce,Transportation,Boats and boating,Shipping,Geography

Tags: passenger liners; ships; navigation; logistics; sailing; crew; skippers; captains; sextants; longshore activity; goods; llamas; vicuñas; Straits of Magellan; Panama Canal; sugar; coffee; passenger ships; Coast Guard ships; ice floes; glaciers; filmed from boat; ship's captain; waves over the bow; icebergs; maps; intertitles; cargoes; locks; ports; aerial view of locks; alpacas; scratched film; The End title; geography

Film Sponsor:

Creator: DeVry School Films

Credits:

Distributor: DeVry School Films

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1928

Geographical Location: USA; Canada; Halifax, Nova Scotia; New York City, New York; New York; Nova Scotia; Panama; Peru; Molendo, Peru; Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Genre/Form: educational, silent

Language: eng

Rights: "Copyright, MCMXXVIII De Vry School Films Inc"

Film Format: 16mm film

Element:

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 399