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Show Oily MODERN HIGHWAYS IN MOTION PICTURE (Prepared by the United States Department of "Agriculture.) The achievements of the Western road builder in battering down gigantic gigan-tic barriers and overcoming seemingly Insurmountable obstacles to make accessible ac-cessible to the public the natural wonders won-ders of the West ami to aid development develop-ment of Western communities through the medium of modern highways is the story told in a new United States Department De-partment of Agriculture motion picture, pic-ture, "The Iload Goes Through !" This film, replete with spectacular road construction shots, with the scenic grandeur of the national forests as i lie background, shows roads being cut through the giant timbers of the Mt. Baker National forest, blasted through wails of solid rock along the precipitous precipi-tous shores of Lake Crescent on the Olympic peninsula of Washington and cleared through the tangled mass of trees blown down by heavy winds in the now famous Olympic storm zone ; carved into the ledges of precipices a thousand feet above the blue waters of the Pacific along the route of the Roosevelt Memorial road In Oregon ; bridged over roaring glacial torrents on the vertical sides of Mt. Hood, and the building of a road over historic Donner pass, California, "The Road Goes Through!" reaches its climax in scenes devoted to the Cuyama project In southern California where the task of piercing this valley became the heaviest construction job In the West. Here the highway engineer engi-neer found himself facing every problem prob-lem known to the road builder, and many new ones but breaking down barrier after barrier, the skill and ingenuity in-genuity of the engineer triumphed and the Cuyama road went through ! "The Road Goes Through V is one reel in length. Copies may be borrowed bor-rowed for short periods, or may be purchased at the laboratory charge. A complete list of the department's films, with information on the method of distributing them, is given in Miscellaneous Miscel-laneous Circular 27, which may be obtained, ob-tained, as long as the supply lasts, on application to the department at Washington. |