Beloit Bicentennial Oral History Project Interviews, 1976

Container Title
AD 038
Miscellaneous footage, 1930s
Quantity: 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.