LaVern A. Kohn Moving Image Materials, 1930-1940

Contents List

Container Title
AD 038
Miscellaneous footage, 1930s
Physical Description: 16 mm, b/w and color, silent, approx. 300 ft. 
Reel   1
Segment   1
7th Annual Tournament of the Oconomowoc Ski Club, Oconomowoc, Wis. Jan. 8, 1933
Scope and Content Note: Printed program for the tournament; the wooden ski jump ramp; skiers wearing numbers and waxing skis; skiers preparing to jump; skiers jumping; sequence shot from top of ramp as skiers jump; sequence from a distant vantage point of jumpers making complete runs.
Reel   1
Segment   2
Car race
Scope and Content Note: Racing cars being towed onto track in front of spectator bleachers; triple A spotter car; variety of points of view of the race; parking lot at car race track showing the people watching race from their cars; starting line with cars in stalls like a horse race; the race in progress.
Reel   1
Segment   3
Parade and duck release, Horicon Marsh [color]
Scope and Content Note: Parade footage: motorcycle escort; bands; marchers in World War I uniforms; Milwaukee area Boy Scouts; a truck carrying ducks in cages. Duck release footage: people holding ducks; ducks watched by crowd; speaker; crowd.
Reel   1
Segment   4
Century of Progress International Exhibition, Chicago, Ill., 1933-1934
Scope and Content Note: Briggs Manufacturing Co. exhibit showing "The Car of the Future"; exhibit hall from upper balcony showing various exhibits in hall including a exhibit about copper wire; exterior of exhibition grounds; exterior of the Ford Hall exhibit building; an man ice skating and jumping over barrels.
AD 039
Reel   2
Segment   1
Snow plows, Dodge County, Wis., 1935-1936
Physical Description: 16 mm, b/w, silent, approx. 300 ft. 
Scope and Content Note: Snowplows clearing road; trucks from the Dodge County Highway Commission; various methods used in snow removal; two trucks in tandem clearing snow; truck with a snow blower on the front; people stand at the edge of plowed roads by drifts; group of men.
CB 435
Reel   3
Segment   1
Highway work and construction in Dodge County, Wis.
Physical Description: 16 mm, b/w, silent, approx. 400 ft. 
Scope and Content Note: Road sign: "You are entering Dodge County. E.C. Nitschke, County Highway Commissioner"; road sign "Road under construction, drive carefully"; men working on road; road sign for Delton; crews spreading tar and gravel; steam roller smoothing surface; road sign for Iron Ridge; street signs: Herman Street, Pleasant Avenue, East Avenue, Highland Avenue, North Main Street; road grading; spreading gravel; covering gravel with tar; using steam rollers to smooth materials; surveyors with their equipment; trucks being loaded at gravel plant; material being unloaded from train cars into trucks by hand; gas station with glass-topped pumps; woman in mechanic's coveralls sweeping street in front of gas station; automobiles; men in suits and overcoats standing in street; heavy equipment including cranes and freight cars; men placing dynamite; dynamite being exploded; men repairing road with gravel and tar; truck used to paint stripe down middle of road.
CB 436
Miscellaneous footage, ca. 1930s
Physical Description: 16 mm, b/w, silent, approx. 400 ft. 
Reel   4
Segment   1
Reeseville, Wis., parade, 1931
Scope and Content Note: Horse-drawn vehicles; carriages; a hearse; delivery wagon; fire wagon; reaper; Buick automobile; cars as "floats" depicting various themes (a blacksmith shop, a log cabin); kids on decorated bikes; horseback riders; floats advertising local businesses; banner over street "Welcome Homecomers, Aug. 15 and 16."
Reel   4
Segment   2
Baseball game
Scope and Content Note: Baseball game; crowd in stands; plane flying over game."
Reel   4
Segment   3
Miscellaneous scenery
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous scenery: waterfalls; rapids; shorelines; a lake freighter; and open pit mining.
Reel   4
Segment   4
Juneau, Wis., parade
Scope and Content Note: Vehicles advertising local businesses from Juneau, Beaver Dam, and Maysville; truck carrying "The Junior Boxing Club;" and horse-drawn wagons and carts."
Reel   4
Segment   5
Milk strike, 1933
Scope and Content Note: Crowds milling about; police with clubs; trucks of men pulling up; police arresting strikers; strikers marching and then running; men with clubs and white ribbons on their overcoat lapels taking strikers into custody.