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- "Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded."
- Panoramic view of a busy spot in one of America's inland cities.
- At the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment. 1,500 school children in a unique representation of the American Flag on a huge grand stand. The youngsters carry tiny flags which they wave as they sing.
- Taken during the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment.
- In the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment parade.
- In the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment parade.
- Grand Army of the Republic Encampment parade.
- Street Scene in front of the Empire Theatre.
- A panoramic view on the line of the Northern Ohio Traction Company.
- Taken during the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment parade.
- Taken in the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment parade.
- Richard Walker longs for a son, but his wife Margaret argues for birth control. They live with Richard's sister Florence, Margaret's cousin Jim, and Richard's secretary Lawrence Branford, who is in love with Florence. After Richard and Jim leave for a year on an engineering project, Florence confesses to Margaret that she is pregnant with Jim's child. Margaret's recommendation of an abortion is unacceptable to Florence, so after the birth, Margaret passes the sickly child off as her own to protect Jim and Florence, and to please Richard, who is elated when he returns. After Jim learns that Florence is about to inherit a fortune, he proposes, but when she discovers the reason, she confesses that the child is theirs. Richard upbraids Margaret for being a "modern woman" whose aversion to motherhood is criminal. After Jack leaves and the baby dies, Richard, seeing that Margaret's maternal instinct has been sparked, forgives her, and Florence marries Lawrence.
- In his usual inimitable style, Mr. McLaughlin has built a very beautiful story around the three Biblical characters, Faith, Hope and Charity.
- Prosperous architect David Hunter, lives with his wife Evelyn, who loves gambling and admiration, as well as his small daughter Dora, and his sister-in-law Ruth. When Evelyn tells her husband she owes $10,000 in bridge losses, she promises not to gamble or see her lover, Stephen Dabney, again if he will pay the debt. Stephen's friend, Moira Lamson, however, entices her to the country club for one last game. David and Ruth, worried by her prolonged absence, go to the club where they find her in Stephen's arms. Evelyn accuses her sister of spying on her and demands a divorce from her husband. Ruth, weary of her sister's frailties, moves out of the household and takes up nursing. Evelyn's health suffers from the strain, and now with David and Ruth gone, she is ill and alone. David and Ruth take pity on her and return. A smarter Evelyn is reunited with David.
- Because his wife left him for another man, Harman, a banker, loses faith in women. Twenty years later he has stifled his grief and thinks women playthings. He takes deep interest in his clerk, Jack Gray, but, on finding him married, seeks to cause his wife to leave him, believing she is a hindrance to his ambitions. He places her in an apartment, gives her plenty of money without any conditions for three weeks, and also seeks to get Gray interested in other women. Scheme fails, as Mrs. Gray learns the emptiness of such a life. Husband, regardless of appearances, believes in her and takes her back. Broken in spirit and realizing there is true love, Harman is forgiven by the Grays and they bring about a reconciliation with his wife, who is living in poverty.
- Jerry Burke is engaged to marry Mary Manning, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy old Irishman, but his father opposes the match and disowns him. Meanwhile, James Lacey, a successful but crooked politician, returns to Ireland and persuades the elder Manning to emigrate with Mary to the U.S. Jerry follows and finds work at a newspaper, but he is disheartened upon hearing that Mary plans to marry Lacey. While Mary prepares for the ceremony, her veil catches fire. A doctor claims that the accident has left Mary permanently deformed, whereupon Lacey cancels the wedding. Afterward, she reveals to Jerry that the fire was a pretext to prevent her marriage to Lacey, and the lovers are reunited.
- Keith Drummond, a penniless youth from a well-known family, is advised by John Lathrop to put on a wealthy front and work hard in order to be successful. With money borrowed from Lathrop, Keith takes only the first part of the advice and plunges into a social whirl. He marries nouveau riche Helen Baxter, but one day he denounces his whole way of life and leaves to work in the western oil fields. They are reunited when Keith establishes himself and Helen is reduced to poverty.
- This short, chapter 3 in the "See America First" series, covers the years 1807-1819. It is the age of territorial expansion. The Louisiana Purchase from France means that America now reaches the Pacific. Commerce on the Mississippi River plays an important part in expanding the population into the newly acquired land. The War of 1812 challenges American resolve, and the Florida Purchase of 1819 expands America to the south. As the narrator tells the story, the audience visits various cities, battlefields, buildings, and monuments associated with the featured personalities and events.
- Sole resident of Rhyolite, Nevada sells sun-tinted glass. Also: worm farming; woman teaches welding; Mexican artist paints bulls, matadors; making of miniature furniture, custom mannequins; training movie dogs.
- A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.
- Newsreel in five segments features rescue of POWs in Manila in the course of its liberation by American forces; activities at the Red Cross offices in Geneva; major ice jams on two U.S. rivers; current activities of the U.S. Coast Guard; and FDR's report to Congress on the Yalta conference.
- A travelogue showcasing the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States, featuring the many industries, cities and states that depend upon the Great Lakes for the manufacturing, shipping and distribution of vital goods and services that power the US economy.
- Baseball team (the Cleveland Indians) helps a troubled teenaged fan.
- A flight attendant becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman, all of whom are named Mike. After the three find out about one another, she must decide which one she loves the most--which won't be easy.
- A hosted children's show with Mary Ellen screening originally on WSPD Channel 13 in Toledo, Ohio from 1951-1954. The show then moved to WEWS Channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio. from 1955 to 1956.
- The 1954 National Football League championship game was the 22nd annual championship game. The NFL title game was held on December 26, 1954, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio. This was the third straight title game between the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns. The Detroit Lions had finished the 1954 season with a record of 9-2-1 and the Western Conference title. The Lions were led by quarterback Bobby Layne and running back Doak Walker. Cleveland Browns had finished the regular season with a record of 9-3 and won the Eastern Conference. The Browns were led by their head coach Paul Brown and quarterback Otto Graham.
- Arthur Cohen's "Brooklyn" character takes another trip and writes his usual "Dear Myrtle" letter back to his sweetheart and explains exactly what he is seeing and doing, although what he writes does not always match up with what he is seeing or doing, as "Brooklyn" had his own slant on things.
- Elvis Presley's first film is a documentary reportedly highlighting concert footage filmed at Brooklyn High School in Cleveland OH, during Sept. 1955, hosted by disc jockey Bill Randle. Randle, in the 1950s, was as well known as Alan Freed. Due to legal problems over ownership of the film, this movie was only shown in public once, and has yet to be released officially. Universal Studios reportedly still has the negatives in its vaults.
- "Shock Theater" was a hosted horror movie show with Pete Myers as "Mad Daddy" presenting movies on Friday or Saturday nights on WJKW-TV Channel 8 Cleveland, Ohio in the Summer of 1957.
- Tod and Buz, in Cleveland, Ohio working as laborers on a "three week job at a gravel yard", stay at their Russian supervisor's home. He has a mute daughter who has a miserable life. When a fellow Russian, whom the community has ostracized, shows his love for her tragedy follows. The two ill-fated people meet an uncertain end.
- A girl's death sets off a search for her boyfriend, who must explain that her death was an accident before he's lynched.
- Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
- Tod and Buz are in Cleveland, Ohio where they are employed as crewman on the Cuyahoga River tour boat. They are drawn into the drama surrounding a motherless, lonely son of a workaholic land developer. The boy is seemingly in danger of being harmed or kidnapped. When he does disappear the truth is soon found out by Tod and Buz.
- Tod talks with a murderer in a train station, as Tod & Buz await a maid of honor for a wedding. The convict is back here in his hometown, being transferred to a distant prison, and pleads with Tod to bring his brother to the terminal, because no one in his family will visit him. Tod is touched by the bereft man, so he cabs to the brother's home, while Buz heads to the wedding.
- Tod and Buz are in Cleveland, Ohio working for a road construction company as laborers. Their boss encourages them to meet his attractive, yet erratic, daughter. The father has hidden from her the fact that she suffers from the same medical problem that killed her mother. An operation may or may not save her.
- Tod tries to disprove a spiratualist's prediction that he will kill Buz.
- "Masterpiece Theater" was a hosted thriller and suspense movie show with Ernest Earle Anderson as "Ghoulardi".
- "Laurel, Ghoulardi, and Hardy" was a hosted comedy movie show featuring classic Laurel and Hardy films with Ernest Earle Anderson as "Ghoulardi".