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Reading room

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Old newsreels, government pictures, and home movies. Each reel is catalogued on a card with its source films credited and a scope note describing what it covers. Please read the scope note.

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AF · No. 1Acc. 1954.001

The Town That Cancelled Tuesday

Black-and-white film still: a wide view from a hill over the rooftops and trees of a small town.
Status
Coming soon
Reel
Reel 1 of 1
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

In 1954, the town of Veltmore Crossing voted 212 to 209 to abolish Tuesday. It did not go well.

Source reels (public domain)

Credited for footage only. None of these films records the events in the scope note. Runtimes as catalogued by the Internet Archive.

  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

All via the Internet Archive, Prelinger Archives collection, marked public domain. Sponsors are the real companies credited on the original films. They have no connection to this channel and do not endorse it.

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