“ TWELVE DECADES OF CONCRETE IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE PART II ” 1960s PORTLAND CEMENT PROMO XD95795

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This film titled “Twelve Decades of Concrete in American Architecture - Part II The Search For A New Architecture” is a 1960s informational film about the history of concrete in American architecture from the 1920s to the 1950s. The film is one of a series presented by Portland Cement Association, and portrays many different architectural designs and styles of schools, theaters, churches, cathedrals, state buildings, company buildings, hospitals, and other unique architectural constructions made of concrete.

Credits (00:12). “Twelve Decades of Concrete in American Architecture - Part II The Search For A New Architecture” title banner (00:19). The host and narrator introduces the film (00:26). The First Baptist Church in Bakersfield, California (00:56). The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles highlighting pre-Columbian motifs (01:19). The Parthenon Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, a duplicate of the Greek Parthenon using reinforced concrete (01:47). The Precious Blood Church in Los Angeles highlighting the decorative low pier buttress (02:22). The Grace Cathedral in San Francisco highlighting its gothic style and flying buttress (02:50). The host and narrator speaks about the California School Rebuilding program following the Long Beach earthquake in 1933 (03:30). Huntington Beach high school highlighting the detailed arches (03:54). Hawthorne elementary school highlighting simple walls and the bell tower (04:13). Venice high school highlighting the modified spanish architectural style and impressionist style grills (04:50). Hollywood high school highlighting the flat roof without overhang, rounded corners, and sculptures cast in plaster molds (05:12). Jefferson high school highlighting vertical and horizontal accents (05:42). The Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany (06:16). NBC’s Hollywood Studios highlighting the grouping of the building and the wall surfaces (06:29). The Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building in San Francisco (06:49). The old La Crosse Wisconsin Tribune Building highlighting its round corners and the flat roof (07:19). The sheep-poultry barn at the Minnesota State Fair (07:36). The Agriculture Horticulture Building at the Minnesota State Fair (07:40). The 4-H Building at the Minnesota State Fair (07:42). Town of Lake Water Tower and Municipal Building in the town of Lake Wisconsin (07:44). Community Building Complex of Boone County in Belvidere, Illinois highlighting its parabolic arches and column decoration (07:49). The Coast Guard station at Cleveland, Ohio (08:06). Lake County tuberculosis sanatorium in Illinois (08:25). The former Municipal Asphalt Plant in New York City highlighting its parabolic flow (08:50). The Hersheypark Arena in Pennsylvania (09:15). St. Paul Hippodrome in Minneapolis (09:27). The Alabama Department of Archives and History building highlighting its Greek revival style (09:35). The Annie Pfeiffer Chapel at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida (09:45). The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (09:59). The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, highlighting its 9-sided concrete frame and intricate molded tracery (10:29). Credits (12:05).

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