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Series: Films
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AE 401
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Early Sign Manufacturing, circa 193816 mm, black & white, silent Short film demonstrating road sign construction. Includes
intertitles. Production: unknown
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AE 408
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Eau Claire Sand & Gravel Company, 1929
16 mm, black & white, silent
: Short film on road and bridge construction in the small towns near
Eau Claire, including Thorp, Withee, Stanley and Black River Falls.
Features footage of various construction companies working on roads,
including F.F. Mengel Company, Vogt-Mengel Company, and Alfred Brown
and Company. Footage also show a Wisconsin Highway Commission
Inspector and an inspector identified as “Buzz”
Cernaghan. Includes intertitles.
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CC 697
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Medians in Wisconsin, circa 1960s-1970s16 mm, color, silent Shows various types of medians on Wisconsin highways. Production: Presented by Wisconsin Highway Commission
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CC 695
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On the Record, 1955 February 916 mm, black & white, sound Kinescope television press conference moderated by Roy Vogelman with
guest Harold L. Plumber, Chairman of the State Highway Department.
Plumber is interviewed by a panel comprised of George Roggerson
(Wisconsin State Journal), Allen Oscar (editorial services, UW
Extension), and Lloyd Woodruff (Assistant Director of Bureau of
Government of UW Extension). Produced: Roy Vogelman
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CC 413
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Plans for Progress, circa 1960s
16 mm, black & white, silent
: Possibly a workprint containing footage of road and bridge
construction throughout the state. Footage of families and groups of
people disembarking a Greyhound bus and waiting for a train,
possibly at the old depot in Madison, Wisconsin. Footage ends with
an airplane departure and aerial views of bridges, highways and
airports.
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CC 699
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Roads and Loads, 195016 mm, color, silent Scenes of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad, possibly on West
Washington Avenue in Madison. Unedited footage of various farm and
other manufacturers of consumable products and the vehicles and
roads that bring them to us, including milk producers, Blatz beer,
quarries, etc. Shows soil composition and testing at the State
Highway Commission Office and testing. This is possibly a
workprint. Production: by W.F. Steuber
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AE 414
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The Road to Prosperity, circa 1960s-197216 mm, color, sound Short film on the interstate highway's impact on the United States
economy. Production: Presented by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau
of Public Roads
Producer: William E. Hall
Writer/editor: S. Paul Klein
Narrator: Peter
Jamerson
Photography by: George W. Crum and Charles H.
Ritter
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AE 400
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Tree Transplant Program, 196916 mm, color, silent Unedited footage of tree harvesting and replanting in the Eau Claire
area. Possibly an early workprint. Production: State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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