# A Better Chicago 1937

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. Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Sound Accession Number(s): 330

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1937
- By: Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ABetterChicago1937)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.