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Valley town

United States, 1940
film

The story of how machines made a “boom” town with factories running at top speed, stores crowded with shoppers, money flowing freely - and of how ..

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Men at work

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The Machine: master or slave

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Key to progress: machines in the service of men

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A Touch of the terminals

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Mechanisation in small foundries

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Change and employment

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The City

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Boomtown

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A Matter of survival

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America on the edge of abundance

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Boys in the age of machines

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Ideas at work

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Into the machine age

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Day after day

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The Man on the assembly line

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