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Title: Little Known Facts for a Well Known Product production script
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Ridge Tool Company (sponsor)
Description: A script for a promotional film detailing how Ridgid pipe tools are produced. Introduces the Ridge Tool Company plant in Elyria, Ohio and its various office and employees. Then, the production floor is described including the foundry, forge shop, machine shop and heat-treating department. Quality control tests for various products are described and all Ridgid pipe tool products are listed.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_14_11
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: This Business Called Retailing production materials
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (Production company), General Electric Company (sponsor)
Description: Includes a recording script for a film production which describes the business of independent retailing and uses a fictional business to demonstrate typical operations and best retailing practices. Also includes a list of scenes for filming and a list of institute and field services.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_23_10
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Unto the Least of These production scripts
Date(s): 1941, 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Cleveland Humane Society (sponsor)
Description: These scripts for a full color motion picture are written to demonstrate the importance of the Cleveland Humane Society in order to gain support from the community. The production illustrates how the Humane Society helps many types of people. The production focuses on a fictional family of three who are helped by the Society. The child is provided with foster care while her parents receive assistance with alcoholism and violence.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_05_08
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Sound on Acetate television commercial production materials
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Standard Oil Company (Ohio) (sponsor)
Description: Includes scripts for television commercials advertising SOHIO products. Includes commercials for home heating oil, car engine oil, X-70 gasoline, and about the company's expansion and response to greater American demand for oil. Also includes opening and closing scripts used before and after regularly scheduled television broadcasts. The included synopses list recording shots needed for the oil change, X-70 gasoline, and company expansion commercials.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_15_18
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Hometown U.S.A. production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), East Cleveland Civilian Defense (sponsor)
Description: This continuity for a full-color motion picture production lists brief descriptions of each film scene. The production tells a story of East Cleveland's citizens and their wartime contributions.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_06_06
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Federal Department Store television commercial scripts
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Federal Department Store (sponsor), Gerst, Sylvester, & Walsh Advertising Agency (Associated name)
Description: A script for a television commercial advertising the affordable prices and numerous products of Federal Department Store. The lines follow a variation on a well-known nursery rhyme.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_07_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Sales are the Payoff production script
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (sponsor)
Description: Includes a script for a sales training motion picture. The script tells the story of a fictional character, Sam Clark, who is a young salesman for the Bryant Heater Company. Clark successfully sells a new gas heating system to the Taylor family, a notoriously tough customer. He accomplishes this by following three fundamental rules of sales: investigating his prospect, translating the advantages of a new system, and negotiating final objections.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_14
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Demonstration Sells! production script
Date(s): 1947
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film production which begins with a montage of scenarios in which a product demonstration led to a sale. During the plot of the film, Westinghouse Laundry salesmen chat with the narrator to discuss how product demonstration is important to closing sales, but letting the customers try the appliances themselves is just as important. This is accomplished by opening local laundromats equipped with Westinghouse laundry appliances.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_20_09
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Window Glass production script
Date(s): 1947
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a sound slide film production in which a fictional boy is given a technical explanation of glass manufacture by his father. In particular, the father describes four methods of forming window glass including the crown method, the hand cylinder method, the machine cylinder method, and the sheet drawing method.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_10_27
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: How to Demonstrate the Westinghouse MF-7 Fridge production script
Date(s): 1947
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (sponsor)
Description: A script for a sound slide training film. Fictional salesmen practice pitching the Westinghouse MF-7 refrigerator and give each other feedback. They focus on the storage space of the refrigerator, what can fit inside its specialized compartments, and how it can save time spent grocery shopping by preserving more food for longer periods of time.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_20_07
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Glass Fabrication production materials
Date(s): 1947
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company (Sponsor)
Description: Includes a typed description of a silent film production about glass fabrication and a list of frames for each scene. The production focuses on bent plate glass varieties including Vitrolite and Bent Patterned Glass. Fifty-five sketches depict the slides used for each scene's frame.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_10_29
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Introducing Opportunity for the Second Member production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Baldwin-Hill Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a film production which describes the Baldwin-Hill Company, it's beginnings, purpose, and superior qualities.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_13
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: More than Skin Deep production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a training film production which describes the Bryant Heater Company's Electric Water Heater in detail. It discusses the comprehensive anatomy of a Bryant water heater, and the significance of each part. After discussing the construction of the heaters, the script addresses different models and selling points for the appliance.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_03_20
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Slidefilms production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company)
Description: A script for a film production which advertises Cinecraft's sound slide film services and facilities. The script describes the set designs and various equipment available to clients. It highlights Cinecraft's ability to design title and text cards and produce high-quality sounds recordings.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_26
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Make Every Day Tag Day production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (sponsor)
Description: In this script for a sound slide training film production, a personified Westinghouse 'Tell-All Tag' discusses its purpose and how it can help in persuading sales from four typical patron types.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_21_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Printing Profits production materials
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Harris-Seybold Company (Sponsor), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name), Welchans, Robert (Author)
Description: A script for a motion picture film describing the 17 x 22 in. single color offset press by Harris-Seybold. In the script, a personified press addresses the audience to describe itself, provides background for its purpose, and discusses its superior features.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_09_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: One Step Ahead production script
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Jam Handy Organization (Production company), F.C. Russell Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a sound slide film production. In the production, a fictional man named George begrudgingly begins installing storm windows on his home for the change of seasons. The narrator informs George that if he had RUSCO Windows, he would not have to use storm windows each year. The narrator then describes the weather, safety, and security features of RUSCO windows and how they are made. Another character, Fred, is then used to demonstrate how the superior insulation qualities of the...
Show moreA script for a sound slide film production. In the production, a fictional man named George begrudgingly begins installing storm windows on his home for the change of seasons. The narrator informs George that if he had RUSCO Windows, he would not have to use storm windows each year. The narrator then describes the weather, safety, and security features of RUSCO windows and how they are made. Another character, Fred, is then used to demonstrate how the superior insulation qualities of the windows make for cost-efficient home temperature control.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_06_12
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Richman Brothers training film shooting schedule
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Richman Brothers Company (Sponsor)
Description: A document which includes an itemized list of the location, subject, shot type, and working notes for each scene filmed on a certain date.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_14_09
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Cleveland's Answer production script
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Cleveland Chamber of Commerce (Cleveland, Ohio). Committee on Employment Practices (Sponsor), Storycraft Incorporated (Associated name)
Description: This script for a film production describes the plan to secure non-discriminatory employment practice within the Cleveland community. The script provides a series of arguments in favor of more inclusive hiring practices and includes a brief discussion addressing some misconceptions of race. For example, the script asserts that people of color do not have inherently different abilities and should therefore be considered equally for employment.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_05_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Alliance Tenna-Rotor Series B and D television commercial scripts
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Alliance Manufacturing Company (Sponsor), Henrich, Walt (Narrator)
Description: Includes scripts for a set of television commercials advertising the Alliance (now known as the Genie Company) Tenna-Rotor, an antenna device that improves television reception. Seven scripts are labelled 'Deluxe' and six scripts are labelled 'Standard.'
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_01_02
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The 1948 Electric Range Sales Story production script
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (sponsor)
Description: An eight-part sound slide film production describing new features of the 1948 line of Westinghouse Electric Ranges. These features include warming and storage drawers, an updated cooktop, increased surface cooking capacity, and super-speed Corox units. Additionally, sections of the script are dedicated to a description of the full line of 1948 range models and the style and beauty of the ranges.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_21_03
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Wash-A-Matic Laundry television and radio commercial scripts
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Apex Electric Manufacturing Company (Sponsor), Henrich, Walt (Narrator), Meldrum and Fewsmith, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: Includes two television commercial scripts and one radio script advertising the Apex Wash-A-Matic washing machine. The commercials feature the appliance's ability to automatically produce thoroughly cleaned and fluffed laundry.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_02_16
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Tenna-Rotor Series A television commercial scripts
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Alliance Manufacturing Company (Sponsor), Storycraft Incorporated (Associated name), Foster and Davies, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: Includes a scripts for a set of television commercials numbered one through six. There are two copies of script number two, each with a different introduction. The scripts advertise the Alliance (now known as the Genie Company) Tenna-Rotor, an antenna device that improves television reception.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_01_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Big Parade production script
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Bryant Heater Company (Sponsor)
Description: A script for a sound slide film production intended to persuade prospective Bryant appliance dealers to sell Bryant equipment. The narrator describes at length the full line of Bryant Heater Company's water and air heating equipment. Then, a fictional salesman convinces a dealer to sell Bryant products because of their complete line of products, reliable distribution operation, and down-to-earth advertising system.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_01
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Central National Bank television commercial scripts
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Central National Bank of Cleveland (Sponsor), Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. (Associated name)
Description: Includes seven television commercial scripts and three radio scripts inviting locals to bank at Central National Bank, an easily accessible and beautiful building.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_04_17
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

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