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The Story of Wheat

An episode of John Nash Ott's weekly television program How Does Your Garden Grow?, focusing on the history of wheat production and its mark...
Kansas City Newsreel

Independently-produced newsreel featuring brief human interest stories. Subjects include: cleaning Pullman cars at the Kansas City Terminal Yards; ...
Odyssey

Film promoting Griffin Wheel Company telling the history of Griffin Wheels in the train industry. The film shows the cycle of wheels in action tran...
Chamption Papers Inc Imagination 10

Promotional film for a series of books published by Paper Division of Champion Papers Inc., describing how images in film are graphically translate...
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Test film for legal use for Griffin Wheel Company. Showed that Southern Pacific RR ran trains down the mountain without inspecting it.
Matinee

A band of mysterious performers show up in small-town Illinois for a magic show with a horrific twist.

Made for a class project at Colu...
Chicago Railroad Fair & Pageant

This educational film tells the history of carriage and locomotive transportation in the United States. The entire film is set outdoors near Chicag...
Durango/Silverton & Train;  Panning for Gold

An unedited travelogue documenting a trip to Colorado. The film includes scenes of a train ride, a visit to an old west town catered towards touris...
1942 circa: Downtown Chicago - Factory - Train - Construction

Home movie that begins with scenes of downtown Chicago and a suburban American Can Company factory. The film also includes footage of cars driving ...
Working on the Railroad

A short film on the model trains, intricate scenery and skilled hobbyists of the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. The mission of the San Diego...
1936: Scenes on the Western Pacific

B&W home movie of landscape scenes shot aboard a train.
1932: Veterans Day - Burns

B&W home movie of men and women posing near a California railroad station.
1932: Veterans Banquet

B&W home movie of well dressed men posing at a railroad station and dark interior setting, followed by a short sequence of men and women exiting an...
1931 (circa): Portland, Chinatown & San Francisco

Footage depicts a railroad trip from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco, California. Includes scenes of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 1930s.
1931: San Francisco Bay - Muir Woods - Western Pacific - Royal Gorge

B&W home movie of a west coast vacation. Includes footage of Muir Woods National Monument, scenes of San Francisco bay shot from boat and plane rid...
1932: SP Train out of Los Angeles Olympics

B&W home movie of a trip to Los Angeles, California for the 1932 Olympics. Includes railroad footage of the Sierra Nevada, an Olympic procession, a...
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