Longtime roadie Kathy Anderson produced this film for the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Okla. Using Route 66 as a springboard, it shows how highways evolved in the United States.
You’ll probably see a few familiar faces:
The American Dream, The American Drive from Kathy Anderson on Vimeo.
Anderson explained more of the project:
This video was produced for the Transportation Museum in the City of Elk City’s Museum complex. This complex is made up of a number of smaller museums, including the National Route 66 Museum. The City wanted a video to play in the adjoining theater area that touched on specific aspects of transportation and Route 66 in order to put into context a number of items they had on exhibit.
The City contacted me and then I got together with Thomas Repp, who is not only a writer and author, but also publisher of “American Road” magazine. Thomas wrote the script as well as flew down to Oklahoma to do the on-camera and v/o. He also provided graphics and the other people interviewed in the video. Pam Chase was contacted to be assistant producer. She handled the on-location shooting as well as got the editing underway. In addition to producer, I also did the archival footage research and much off-line editing. Post production was done at Critical Mass. Please see end credits.
In just 16 minutes, it’s an excellent primer of the history of U.S. highways.
Really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting it. That is Blue Whale’s Blaine Davis with his mother and little sister and a very big snake in one of the photos about the resurgence of Route 66, isn’t it?
Fantastic film. I also really enjoyed watching this. It makes me want to jump in the car and hit the open road, 2-lane road that is.