”CLEVELAND: CITY ON SCHEDULE” 1962 CLEVELAND, OHIO URBAN RENEWAL & DEVELOPMENT FILM XD37794

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This film from 1962 promotes Cleveland’s greater urban renewal project, highlighting the demolition of deteriorated neighborhoods, the rebuilding and rehabilitation of residential areas, and the billion-dollar developments of highways, hospitals, schools, universities, and public spaces. The film, produced by General Pictures Corporation for the Cleveland Development Foundation, is written by Frank Siedel of Storycraft and reported by Chet Huntley. The film was promoting a massive effort to rejuvenate Cleveland, which included transportation and urban renewal projects. The two efforts ended up draining population from the central city and severely affected the East Side. The developments were largely viewed as a failure. Views of the Cleveland, Ohio, city skyline (00:10) “Cleveland – City on Schedule” title banner (00:16). The Cuyahoga River (00:34). Host Chet Huntley introduces the industrial routes of the city of Cleveland (00:52). Scenes from the steel-industry (01:14). Scenes of the production of aircraft parts, automotive parts, and machine tools, chemicals, paints, and metal fabricating (01:59). View from the centers of industrial, medical, and scientific research (02:27). The industrial quarters of Cleveland (02:46). Scenes from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (02:52). Workers are cleaning the Art Museum (03:20), and the Health Museum (03:29). An orchestra rehearsal at Severance Hall (03:38). A theater rehearsal at Cleveland Play House (03:52). Scenes from the Case Institute of Technology (04:15). The Zoo in Brookside Park (04:26). The Cleveland Stadium (04:37). A young boy is feeding a deer (04:43). Children playing baseball (04:50). Young women are spending time at the beach (04:54). Speedboating (04:59). Adults and children enjoy time at local museums (05:04). Traffic problems in Cleveland (05:36). Residential areas (05:47). Abandoned and deteriorated properties and neighborhoods (05:59). New neighborhoods in the Cleveland suburbs (06:53). Commercial institutions and industrial plants in the suburbs (07:13). Freeways connecting the city with the suburbs (07:53). Scenes of downtown Cleveland (08:00). A meeting with the local politicians and former mayor Frank Lausche at the Cleveland City Hall (08:37). (09:53). City planning commission chairman Ernest J. Bohn at the city hall archive (10:02). The ‘general plan’ report of 1949 about the development of the city (11:07). Urban director James M. Lister explains the general plan (11:19). The Innerbelt Bridge (12:54). Cleveland’s water system (13:02). The sewage treatment plant (13:07). Newly built schools (13:14). A segment with a representative from city hall viewed by residents in Cleveland (13:47). The poor Longwood area in Cleveland (15:14). A meeting between the mayor and federal authorities (16:02). Scenes from industrial neighborhoods in Cleveland (17:42). A meeting between city council members hosted by federal reserve bank chairman John Burton (18:19). Engineers and politicians investigate wasteland in the Kinsman Avenue neighborhood (19:35). A city council meeting (21:19). Citizens of Cleveland are voting at the polls (22:14). The general plan construction begins with the demolition and burning of deteriorated neighborhoods (22:30). The newly built housing and public and commercial properties of the area (23:19). Older neighborhoods to be preserved and improved (24:40). The monuments and traditions of Cleveland’s national groups located in the city (24:55). Locals attending meetings organized by the department of urban renewal and housing (25:47). Workers renovating existing properties (27:00). Scenes from the converted neighborhoods such as Longwood and Garden Valley (27:56). The Innerbelt freeway (28:05). The construction of a highway program (28:12). Newly built hospitals and health centers (28:17). Investments in improved fire and police departments (28:27). The improved and expanded airports (28:37). The improved public transportation system (28:58), and new parking facilities along the new freeways downtown and commercial areas of the city (29:06). The developed port facilities (29:20), and school expansions (29:27). A newly built public swimming pool (29:37). Civic center developments (29:46). University circle developments (29:57). Views of the general plan and developments of the urban renewal projects (30:17). Host Chet Huntley comments in the greater urban renewal project of Cleveland (30:59). A model-build of modern downtown living quarter-projects (32:02). Credentials (33:39). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit