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Title: Land of Promise
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (sponsor), Lowe, K. Elmo (director), Siedel, Frank (screenwriter), Perry, Edwin (cinematographer), Cinecraft Productions, Inc. (production company), Evans, Robley (narrator)
Description: Film explains the importance of Northeast Ohio on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the opportunities it can provide. Highlights the four ports in this area: Cleveland, Fairport, Ashtabula and Conneaut. Discusses the transportation and industrial systems in the area and how they are beneficial to growth.
Collection ID: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection (Accession 2018.201)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018201_FC04
Collection: Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection

Title: The Perry Story b-roll footage
Date(s): 1974
Description: Raw footage of environmental studies being conducted before construction of the Perry nuclear power plant. Shot for use in The Perry Story film. Includes aerial shots of Perry, scenes of scientists taking soil and water samples, people analyzing environmental reports, and various laboratory tests being administered.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC134
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: A Profit and Light report on office building lighting
Date(s): 1961
Description: A "Profit and Light" report for Northeast Ohio Business. A host has a conversation with a cartoon woman named "Iris" and argues that better, more modern office lighting increases employee productivity. Poor lighting means a worker will strain his or her eyes and take longer to read and finish tasks, thus costing a company money. Provides examples of organizations that have switched to modern lighting provided by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC120
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: A Profit and Light report on retail store lighting
Date(s): 1961
Description: A "Profit and Light" report for Northeast Ohio Business. A host has a conversation with a cartoon woman named "Iris" and argues that better, more modern lighting can increase sales at retail stores. Atmospheric lighting, spotlights, and other types of strategic illumination can be used as tools to stimulate a customer to purchase more product.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC123
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Perry Story
Date(s): 1974
Description: Film detailing how the residents of Perry, Ohio, decided to allow a nuclear power plant to be constructed in their town. Includes interviews with townspeople who are both for and against the plant, aerial shots of the Ohio countryside and Lake Erie, and community meetings. Film is significantly pro-nuclear power.
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC081
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Cleveland World Port
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Welchans, Robert (Director)
Description: Film promoting the city of Cleveland, Ohio and its growing status as a global industrial and cultural hub. Begins with footage of the first ship to use the new St. Lawrence Seaway, the Dutch cargo freighter Prins Willem III, arriving to the city. Follows with a detailed examination of the various industries in which Cleveland supports, including steel, construction, and chemical, and how the city's location and labor force make it an excellent location for new plants and businesses. The film...
Show moreFilm promoting the city of Cleveland, Ohio and its growing status as a global industrial and cultural hub. Begins with footage of the first ship to use the new St. Lawrence Seaway, the Dutch cargo freighter Prins Willem III, arriving to the city. Follows with a detailed examination of the various industries in which Cleveland supports, including steel, construction, and chemical, and how the city's location and labor force make it an excellent location for new plants and businesses. The film also promotes Cleveland's educational system, cultural institutions, and leisure opportunities.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC144
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Heart of Cleveland
Date(s): 1924
Contributor(s): Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (Sponsor), Rothacker Film Manufacturing Co. (Production company)
Description: Film sponsored by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company promoting expanded electric services beyond urban areas. The film opens on a farm family outside of Cleveland without electricity and other 'modern conveniences.' While eating dinner, the family is interrupted by a man in an airplane who makes an emergency landing in their farm field. The pilot joins the family for dinner and then shows them his radio. The pilot then offers to take the farmer's children to Cleveland to teach them...
Show moreFilm sponsored by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company promoting expanded electric services beyond urban areas. The film opens on a farm family outside of Cleveland without electricity and other 'modern conveniences.' While eating dinner, the family is interrupted by a man in an airplane who makes an emergency landing in their farm field. The pilot joins the family for dinner and then shows them his radio. The pilot then offers to take the farmer's children to Cleveland to teach them about electricity. The next day, the pilot and children fly to Cleveland. This part of the film includes aerial shots of the city. The group then goes to the pilot's sister's home where they are given a tour of a home with electricity. After seeing the many electrical appliances, the pilot then takes the children to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company Building at 75 Public Square where they are given a tour of the offices. They then proceed to the Company's Lake Shore Station - the "world's largest steam-electric" plant -- where they are given a tour of the facility with detailed descriptions of the many facets of the power-producing operation. The film closes with the children touring various industrial facilities using electricity to do such things as bottling milk, loading iron ore, making clothes, melting steel, conveying steel billets, rolling steel bars, making automobile parts, arc-welding, manufacturing brick, making light bulbs, and printing newspapers. The film ends with the farm family in their newly electrified home courtesy of the expanded rural electric service of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC085
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Cleveland Corridor
Date(s): 1959
Description: Film promoting the "Cleveland Corridor," an 85-mile corner of northeast Ohio between the port cities of Conneaut and Cleveland, as "the best location in the nation" for industrial business. Touts the area's excellent air, water, and ground transportation systems, water supply, open land for plant construction, skilled labor force, and cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities. Also advertises the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company's ability to provide electricity to any new...
Show moreFilm promoting the "Cleveland Corridor," an 85-mile corner of northeast Ohio between the port cities of Conneaut and Cleveland, as "the best location in the nation" for industrial business. Touts the area's excellent air, water, and ground transportation systems, water supply, open land for plant construction, skilled labor force, and cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities. Also advertises the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company's ability to provide electricity to any new business that decides to locate within the "corridor" and encourages viewers to contact the company's area development department.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC490
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: 'Land of Promise' preview program,
Date(s): 1955-01-28
Contributor(s): Siedel, Frank (associated name), Storycraft, Inc. (associated name), Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (originator)
Collection ID: Frank Siedel papers (Accession 2022.215)
Hagley ID: AVD_20222215_01_11_02
Collection: Frank Siedel papers