Begins with sunlight coming through the leaves on a tree; in lower left corner a timeline begins. Cuts to WS of a building with columns in a valley, timeline begins 1 AD. PAN down the column and out to the landscape, timeline continues 1650. Zoom out from a clock tower. Cut to an Amish couple in a horse and buggy, the man nods at the camera, timeline at 1850. A couple in a car make a turn down the road, timeline 1930. Cuts to a busy highway turn off, timeline 1966. People ride down an escalator, timeline 1999. A crowded sidewalk. PAN of a brick building with balconies and yellow grass, a chain link fence in FG. Several parked cars sit in a parking lot surrounded by apartment buildings. A car and engine are being modeled, they rotate on their platform. A double Decker truck transports cars down a freeway. Cuts to under a bridge where hundreds of cars are parked and locked in crates. Dissolves to a lake under a rusted bridge. PAN up of a watercolor painting of a tower. Cuts to painting depicting the Industrial Revolution. Painting of an Amish man holding the reigns of 2 horses that pull the plow. Painting of the engine of a train. Painting of a town square, a train, and a park by the sea.
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