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Chicago Sanitary head Ross A. Woodhull explains a massive Public Works Administration sewage construction plan

Title card: "Speed sewage system, Chicago - Build 20 miles of waste-tunnels under West Side: part of $220,000,000 PWA project!" / An interior view of the tunnel and workers illuminated by spotlights and a line of lightbulbs / Workers enter an airlock / some workers hold their noses / they exit and walk forward / VS men standing outside wearing helmets and goggles don gas masks / men walk forward and descend stairs / VS workers hoisting rocks / a white mule pulls a mud car through tunnel / the men throwing material in a metal hopper / workers use dirt to fill in drained lake at Lincoln Park / Ross A. Woodhull, Chicago Sanitary District Chief, stands before a map of the construction and SOT explains the vast construction project with the jobs created / Note: exact month/day not known
Title card: "Speed sewage system, Chicago - Build 20 miles of waste-tunnels under West Side: part of $220,000,000 PWA project!" / An interior view of the tunnel and workers illuminated by spotlights and a line of lightbulbs / Workers enter an airlock / some workers hold their noses / they exit and walk forward / VS men standing outside wearing helmets and goggles don gas masks / men walk forward and descend stairs / VS workers hoisting rocks / a white mule pulls a mud car through tunnel / the men throwing material in a metal hopper / workers use dirt to fill in drained lake at Lincoln Park / Ross A. Woodhull, Chicago Sanitary District Chief, stands before a map of the construction and SOT explains the vast construction project with the jobs created / Note: exact month/day not known
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Credit:
Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels
Editorial #:
2152769757
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1935
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:01:48:14
Location:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr006097_03_01