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Different models of the pocket and wrist watch produced by the Illinois Watch Company.

The intricate processes in the manufacture of watch parts at the Illinois Watch Company in Springfield, Illinois. Exteriors of the Illinois Watch Company. Hand shows internal parts of a pocket watch. Hands show different models of the pocket and wrist watch produced by the Illinois Watch Company.

Location: Springfield Illinois USA
Date: 1922
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050124
Monuments, buildings and traffic on streets in various cities of Illinois, United States

Film 'This is our Land' focuses on the state of Illinois in the United States. A bridge over a river. A view of the river through the bridge. The highway running alongside the river. A man sits on a bench under a tree overlooking beach and Lake Michigan, with downtown buildings and skyscrapers of Chicago in the background. The skyscrapers of the city. Automobile and streetcar traffic on the downtown building-lined city streets of Chicago. People walk on pedestrian sidewalks. Pedestrians and automobile traffic in the capital city Springfield. The Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. A view of the Capitol dome. The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. A child rubs nose of the sculpted face of Abraham Lincoln.

Location: Illinois United States USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067573
Various people from relocation centers employed in different vocations by WRA offices in United States (WW2)

United States Relocation Program for Japanese-American civilians in World War II. A Japanese couple walks in Midwest. Building and houses at the Relocation Center. Civilians leave the Center and War Relocation Authority (WRA) offices provide employment to them. A Japanese man works in crop of corns and check corn bugs in Illinois. Another works with machine in a factory. A Japanese nurse gives medicine to a woman lay on bed in women surgical ward of a hospital. A man operates tractor in a field. A boy works on machine in a factory to make kitchen equipment.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026112
Montage of college football scenes featuring "Red" Grange. Views of Knute Rockne as spectator at a game.

Newly reconstructed Franklin Field, in Philadelphia, filled with 57 thousand spectators. The 150 member University of Illinois marching band plays and parades over the field. A cheering section in the grandstand spells out "N", as part of their message and another section spells out an A" with their cards. Prior to kickoff, Harold Edward "Red" Grange, Captain of the University of Illinois football team, stands holding a football. He is flanked by Illinois Head Coach Robert Carl Zuppke and Pennsylvania coach, John Louis. Grange hands the football to another player. The field is muddy from earlier snow and rain. Grange is seen running the ball on the very muddy field in the contest against University of Pennsylvania. Players are mud-covered and sliding during play. (Underdog Illinois won 24-2.) Scene shifts to different game with cheer leaders in grandstand spelling "Knute Rockne." Camera focuses on the famous Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne, attending the game, as a spectator in the stands. Cheerleaders seen at sidelines. In another scene, Grange is shown in a game, running for a touchdown at corner of goal line. Enthusiastic spectators are seen in stands and at sidelines at a football game.

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065245
Illinois defeats Northwestern University by 10-9 at an American football match in Champaign, Illinois.

Large crowd gathers and cheers during an American football match between University of Illinois and Northwestern University in Champaign, Illinois. Score board as the score increases. Illinois defeats Northwestern by 10-9.

Location: Champaign Illinois USA
Date: 1963, October 7
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035456
Dayton, Ohio plans to increase the number of persons employed in its war plants (WW2)

Film opens showing large factory building with all its lights on at night. Smoke stacks at industrial plant emitting white smoke against dark sky. Sparks flying outdoors from a steel plant at night. Workers inside a fabricating plant drawing a ribbon of hot steel from a roller and dragging a newly made sheet of metal across the floor. Two men with shovels stoking a furnace. Men shaping parts on forging machines. A group of men using sledge hammers to drive down pipe supports under a large piece of sheet metal. Employees at work in a crowded machine shop. A sign reading: "500 workers needed NOW Training on the job." A display of job recruitment announcements in newspapers. A room full of idle manufacturing machinery (ostensibly due to labor shortages). Sign on iron fence outside a building, reads: "Essential WAR WORK Day or Night Men and Women." Some more similar signs.Animated chart of Labor Needs with Labor supply lagging behind, superimposed on a drawing of a defense plant. Map of the USA highlighting areas of industrial might where labor shortages exist. Camera zooms in on Dayton, Ohio on the map. Aerial views all over the city of Dayton, Ohio. View from a tall building overlooking a major Dayton commercial street. The Gem City Savings building, with clock tower on top, at the corner of Third and Main streets. On April 7, 1943, two hundred leading citizens of Dayton are seen attending a meeting at which Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, is speaking. He speaks about the danger of Dayton falling behind its war production goals because of manpower difficulties. View of the audience, which includes several military officers in uniform. Allyn speaks of the potential for war work being moved elsewhere because of this, and challenges Dayton's leaders to solve the problem without requiring action from Washington. Next, an emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. In final scene, Stanley Allyn is seen at the head of the table, speaking to the group. He outlines three ways to obtain more war workers from the Dayton population during World War II.

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029529
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