Keep On Rolling. The Dream of the Automobile

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Using archival footage, beautifully crafted contemporary animation, and interviews with astute cultural observers based outside the U.S., this program examines the implications of our love affair with the car. Viewers learn how, in just over a century, Henry Ford's innovations completely transformed human life, so much so that in some areas of the world cars seem more important than human beings. In the West, for example, an estimated sixty-two percent of urban space is now devoted to roads or car parks. Meanwhile, the average American home features a garage that would dwarf most bedrooms. The film also illustrates that devoting so much public and private space to an inefficient form of transportation has radically altered our relationship with the environment.