1954 TOUR OF USA CAPITOL WASHINGTON, D.C. & DISCUSSION OF BRANCHES OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT XD14594

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color educational film from the Standard Oil Company “Welcome to Washington“ presents a tour of Washington, D.C. Copyright is 1954, in other words during the Eisenhower administration. The film was shot by Tom Draper and produced by John Bransby Productions of New York. Opening titles: An Esso Picture - Esso Standard Oil Company presents “Welcome to Washington“ (:07). Spinning globe of planet Earth revolves (:48). Map of Europe showing the various capitols (1:08). United States as it looked in the Colonial Era (1:31). The capitol city of the United States at one time or another was in the following cities: Philadelphia, PA, York, PA, Lancaster, PA and Baltimore, MD, Princeton, NJ, Annapolis, MD, Trenton, NJ and NY, NY (1:42). A ten mile square section of Maryland and Virginia, on the Potomac River, would be the new capitol city. The land in Virginia was retu