13171_7315_gas_rationing2
1944
“What? No gas... in America?!”CU on sign reading “NO GAS TODAY”. Camera pans over to a couple sitting in a convertible at a gas station while the husband complains about the gas shortage. ELS of oil fields /wells/drills. MCU of the couple as the husband complains in anger. Shots of army ship on the ocean firing from cannons. ELS of explosion in the distance on the water from the ship’s POV. Downward ELS of cars driving on a highway. Footage of two police officers taking a 40 MPH sign down to replace it with a 35 MPH sign to save gas. MCU of Harold L. Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, speaking about the issue. LS of Times Square and Broadway empty because cars do not have gasoline.