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Title: The Ohio Story: Ohio State Highway Patrol
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Ohio Bell Telephone Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Olmsted, Nelson (Host)
Description: Film, hosted by actor Nelson Olmsted, highlighting the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Provides an overview of the division's overall work and training, and enacts a fictional carjacking and details how the patrol would respond.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC156
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: School for the Blind
Date(s): 1955
Description: Film, hosted by actor Nelson Olmsted, celebrating the Ohio State School for the Blind in Columbus, Ohio. Highlights the various subjects of study that are available to students, such as geography, reading, and music. Also discusses the vocational training provided for young men and women.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC157
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Backstage at the Big Top
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): Ohio Bell Telephone Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Olmsted, Nelson (Host)
Description: Film, hosted by actor Nelson Olmsted, highlighting the Ohio-based Mills Brothers Circus. Discusses the daily life of circus performers, both human and elephant, and the preparations conducted before the season's first show in Jefferson, Ohio. Includes clips of spectators arriving at the "big tent" and highlights from a performance.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC158
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Light in the Darkness
Date(s): 1955
Description: Film, hosted by actor Nelson Olmsted, celebrating the Ohio State School for the Blind. The film follows a little girl named Barbara as she arrives at the school and participates in various activities designed for young, blind children. Shows students reading, playing instruments, singing, weaving, learning arithmetic, and playing outside, as well as Barbara's dormitory living arrangement.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC159
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Ohio Michigan War
Date(s): 1955
Description: Actor Nelson Olmsted humorously recounts the story of the Ohio-Michigan War, a boundary dispute between the state of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan during the 19th century. Olmsted and other actors re-enact the events that lead to both sides repeatedly claiming a strip of land near present-day Toledo. While Ohio was eventually victorious, the states revisit their dispute each fall when rival football teams from the University of Michigan and Ohio State University meet for their annual game.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC161
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Drivers with Diplomas
Date(s): 1955
Description: Actor Nelson Olmsted discusses the driver's education program for Ohio high school students. Young people receive detailed instruction on automobile mechanics and proper driving techniques, including parking, steering, and braking. The program ensures graduates are safe, skilled drivers.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC178
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: The Bells of Kenyon
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Ohio Bell Telephone Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Olmsted, Nelson (Host)
Description: Film, hosted by actor Nelson Olmsted, recounting the story of Peter Neff and the Kenyon College bells. Olmsted plays Neff, a 19th century Ohio inventor and businessman who lived adjacent to Kenyon and who helped finance the new bells in the college's chapel clock tower. But once he realized how loud and frequent the bells would chime, Neff became incensed and took legal action against the school.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC179
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Training for Tomorrow
Date(s): 1955
Description: Actor Nelson Olmsted discusses industrial arts education offered at Ohio state schools, focusing on the program at Parma High School. Young men are taught how to operate heavy machinery, read and create blueprints, spin metal, weld steel, shape wrought iron, construct and manipulate circuits, and design homes and aircraft.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC180
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: 150,000 Orchids
Date(s): 1955
Description: Film exploring the production of orchid corsages. Focuses on the procedures and strategies implemented by Thomas Young Orchids, Inc. at their greenhouses in Gates Mills, Ohio. Details how Thomas Young breeds, grows, harvests, packages, and sells high quality orchids.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC181
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Forest Fire Control
Date(s): 1954
Description: Actor Nelson Olmsted explains Ohio's forest fire prevention and management strategies. He details how fires are brought under control using a variety of techniques and personnel.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC182
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Christmas Tree Farm
Date(s): 1955
Description: Nelson Olmsted highlights the Christmas tree industry in Ohio. He details how trees are planted, pruned, harvested, and sold at one of the state's many farms. He also explains how tree farms enhance Ohio's overall soil and water quality.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC183
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story: Johnson's Island
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Ohio Bell Telephone Company (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Siedel, Frank (Screenwriter), Olmsted, Nelson (Host)
Description: Actor Nelson Olmsted tells the story of a failed plot to free nearly 3,000 Confederate soldiers from a Union prison on Johnson's Island, Ohio, during the American Civil War. In the summer of 1864, Confederate sympathizers Charles Cole, Annie Davis, John Yates Beall, and Bennet Burleigh devised an elaborate plan to turn the tide of the war in the North. They would seize control of the Union gunboat Michigan, sail across Lake Erie, force the surrender of the Union guards stationed at the...
Show moreActor Nelson Olmsted tells the story of a failed plot to free nearly 3,000 Confederate soldiers from a Union prison on Johnson's Island, Ohio, during the American Civil War. In the summer of 1864, Confederate sympathizers Charles Cole, Annie Davis, John Yates Beall, and Bennet Burleigh devised an elaborate plan to turn the tide of the war in the North. They would seize control of the Union gunboat Michigan, sail across Lake Erie, force the surrender of the Union guards stationed at the Johnson's Island prison, free the captive Confederate soldiers, and wreck havoc in Ohio. The plan was ultimately unsuccessful. The film uses illustrations and Olmsted's voice acting talents to recount the tale. Note: The statue featured in the film faces north, toward Canada, instead of south as stated by the narrator.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC160
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films