A Better Chicago 1937
Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
Industrial and advertising
Clips are not offered for this film: the US renewal records do not settle it.
Parts
About
On WPA projects in Chicago. Sewer pipe is laid. Debris is cleared from the lake front. Animal skeletons are reconstructed in the Field Museum. Airport runways are lengthened and drainage ditches dug. Slum buildings are razed for a housing project. Shows scenes in parks and a zoo, auto accident scenes, cars being checked for defects, razing of unsafe grain elevators, playgrounds, and nursery school activities.
National Archives Identifier: 12359
Local Identifier: 69.45
Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent)
From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937
* Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944
Level of Description: Item
Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images
This item was produced or created: 1937
The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937
General Note(s): Subject summary is available.
* Contributor: Producer, Works Progress Administration, made by Pathe News.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Ephemeral films
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
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