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Janesville in reel life
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- Videos, Slides, Films
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- English
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- Janesville, Wis. : Rock County Historical Society, 2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocn122575835
- History in motion: Janesville in reel life was filmed in the fall of 1940 by an itinerant film crew and depicts hundreds of Janesville residents and organizations, including a YMCA dance, a WCLO concert, the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, downtown street scenes, the police and fire departments, and a one-of-a-kind interior shot of the Cantina Room of the Monterey Hotel. The film also depicts workers inside the defunct Rock River Woolen Mills, employees leaving the former Parker Pen building, and one of the earliest color glimpses inside the Janesville General Motors Plant. The most poignant scene shows the men of the 192nd Battalion being deployed. Those men, captured on film in front of the old Janesville Armory, became the legendary Janesville 99.
- DVD.