SERIES: Wilding Picture Productions
Abstract
This series contains prints of industrial films produced by Chicago-based Wilding Picture Productions.
Inclusive Dates
circa 1949 – 1961
Series identifier
S.2015-08-0002
Extent
23
reels
Subject
Creators
Wilding Picture Productions
(was created by)
Wilding Picture Productions was founded in 1914 by Norman E. Wilding of Detroit. In 1937, the company opened a Chicago office in the old Essanay Studios on Argyle St on Chicago's north side. By the 1950s, Wilding was one of the world's largest producers of industrial films, with customers including Ford, Chrysler, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, General Electric, United States Steel, Aluminum Company of America, and Standard Oil. Bell & Howell acquired Wilding in 1967, and closed down its Chicago production facilities in 1972. The Wilding Pictures Productions library does not survive intact.
Series Items
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Items with Viewable Media
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SERIES: Wilding Picture Productions
- Big Idea
- The Bill Snyder Show
- The Bill Snyder Story
- Blue Flame
- Bright New World
- Broad Land Narrow Water
- Deep Roots
- Design for Learning
- Fire Magic
- Glamour Queen
- Good Business
- Greatest Go on Earth
- Here's Where You Come in
- The House That Faith Built
- It Happened Tomorrow
- Midstates Quartet
- Miracle in Paradise Valley
- The New Paul Bunyon
- The System
- Time of Crisis
- View from the Mountain
- The Waiting Harvest
- The World Next Door: Sports