# A Better New York State 1937

On Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York. Shows a reservoir at Albany under construction. Garments for relief families are made in WPA sewing rooms. A marionette show is presented at a Buffalo school. Shows scenes at the West Point Military Academy and the Palisades Interstate Park. Dramatizes the part played by WPA crime laboratory technicians in capturing a safecracker. Shows views of restored Fort Niagara. County roads and forest roads in the Adirondacks are constructed. National Archives Identifier: 12337 Local Identifier: 69.21 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/ABetterNewYorkState1937)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens 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.