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Reels are filed here by catalogue number and accession number. Each card lists the collections it draws on. A reel is issued to the reading room once its record has been retrieved.

AF · No. 1Acc. 1954.001

The Town That

Black-and-white film still: a wide view from a hill over the rooftops and trees of a small town.
Status
Sealed. Awaiting retrieval.
Reel
Reel not issued
Format
Digital video, sound, b&w
Runtime
ca. 4 min. 46 sec.
Setting
Veltmore Crossing, 1954
Processed
Catalogued by the Reading Room
Finding aid
Forthcoming

Scope note

Related collections

Veltmore Crossing, its vote, and its residents probably never existed. The footage comes from these public domain films, via the Internet Archive (Prelinger Archives collection):

  1. Highway Hearing (Part I), 1956. Universal-International; sponsor, Dow Chemical Company. Sound, b&w, 14:46. IA: HighwayH1956
  2. Your Town: A Story of America, 1940. Audio Productions Inc.; sponsor, National Association of Manufacturers. Sound, b&w, 10:12. IA: YourTown1940
  3. The Plow That Broke the Plains, 1936. Resettlement Administration. Sound, b&w, 25:26. IA: plow_that_broke_the_plains
  4. Wheels of Progress, ca. 1927. U.S. Bureau of Public Roads. Silent, b&w, 13:41. IA: Wheelsof1927
  5. [Amateur films: Ivan Besse collection: Britton, South Dakota 1938-39] (Part II), 1938–39. Amateur film by Ivan Besse. Silent, b&w, 20:11. IA: sIvanBes1938_3

These films, the people who made them, and the people who appear in them have nothing to do with Veltmore Crossing, which probably doesn't exist. The sponsors listed (Dow Chemical Company, National Association of Manufacturers) are the real organizations credited on the original films. They have no connection to Archive Fictions and do not endorse it. Runtimes are as catalogued by the Internet Archive.

MUSIC & SOUND:

  • “The High School Cadets” (John Philip Sousa, 1890), performed by the U.S. Marine Band. https://archive.org/details/InternetJukebox.JPS.40 (Public Domain)
  • Room ambience: radio aporee field recordings via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/aporee_71832_83893 and https://archive.org/details/aporee_16199_18786 (Public Domain Mark)

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