https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9055877d-22cc-47ee-99ea-b8ec6fa955c0 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD This 1950s silent film, a promo made for the Flaherty Spread-master, a piece of road construction equipment known as a chip spreader. It was made by Flaherty Manufacturing Inc. The film shows road construction in different locations in the US, such as in Bryan, Ohio and somewhere in Texas. The film primarily shows Flaherty asphalt pavers in action building rural roads, highways and possibly an airport runway, while sometimes showing the construction crews and other construction equipment in action. 0:09 an asphalt paver in action in a desert location, 1:10 road construction in a forested area, 1:56 asphalt pavers paving a new road, 2:52 construction equipment holding up traffic on a road, 3:10 asphalt paver renewing a road surface, 3:40 asphalt pavers paving a road while going uphill, 4:58 overview of drum rollers and motor graders, 4:09 asphalt being paved onto a new road in a drier area, 4:56 construction truck of Northwest Materials Inc. Bryan, Ohio, 5:06 a road being repaved in a Suburb presumably in Bryan, Ohio, 6:16 asphalt pavers repaving part of a country road, 7:08 close up of the asphalt paver, 7:49 close up of asphalt paver in action, 9:36 workers manually working on the road, 9:42 asphalt paver adding the top layer after the workers are done, 10:25 the construction foreman standing in front of the equipment, 10:31 asphalt paver adding different layers, 11:23 overview of the finished road with drum rollers driving over it, 11:40 a Texas Highway Department pickup truck with workers around it, 11:50 drum rollers flattening the road, 12:06 trucks loading asphalt onto asphalt pavers. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLEcxBw_JI Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:17:11 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9055877d-22cc-47ee-99ea-b8ec6fa955c0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.