SHELDON PRESTON:
An Inventory of His Preston Implement Company Films at the Minnesota Historical Society
Sound and Visual Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Preston, Sheldon, compiler. | |
| Title: | Preston Implement Company film collection. | |
| Dates: | approximately 1955-1967 | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Films are advertisements and demonstrations of agricultural equipment, including but not limited to Minneapolis-Moline tractors, Farmhand Company Beet Harvester, and Bobcats. | |
| Quantity: | 6 master film reels: silent and sound, black and white and color; 16 mm, 1 master film reel; 8 mm, 6 submaster video files: digital, MOV and 6 user video files: digital, MP4. | |
| Location: | I.485 : See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Sheldon Preston worked for Minneapolis-Moline before starting his own farm implement and machinery company, Preston Implement Company, in East Grand Forks. He ran the company from the early 1950s through the mid 1970s.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Preston, Sheldon, Preston Implement Company Film Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters and submasters of film recordings are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
Accession Information:
Accession number: AV2017.33
Processing Information:
Processed by: Karen Obermeyer-Kolb, June 2017
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, March 15, 2023.
Digital video transferred from the master films by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (2017 and 2023). Bobcat a Go-Go advertisement transferred to digital video by Metropolis Post (November 2021).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 990088134140104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Collection I.485.1 | Bobcat A Go-Go advertisement, 1967. 1 master film reel: analog, color, sound ; 16mm, 1 submaster video file: MOV, and 1 user video file: MP4. | ||||||||||
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| Collection I.485.2 copy 1 | Preston Implements demonstration of Minneapolis-Moline machinery, October 1961. 1 master film reel: analog, color, silent ; 16mm, 1 submaster video file: MOV, and 1 user video file: MP4. | ||||||||||
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| Collection I.485.2 copy 2 | Preston Implements demonstration of Minneapolis-Moline machinery, October 1961. 1 master film reel: analog, color, silent ; 16mm, 1 submaster video file: MOV, and 1 user video file: MP4. | ||||||||||
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| Collection I.485.3 | Television master of Lilliston Cultivator demonstration, approximately 1960. 1 master film reel: analog, color, silent ; 16mm, 1 submaster video file: MOV, and 1 user video file: MP4. | ||||||||||
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| Collection I.485.4 | Demonstration of Oppel beet harvester, Farmhand Company, approximately 1960. 1 master film reel: analog, color, silent ; 16mm, 1 submaster video file: MOV, and 1 user video file: MP4. | ||||||||||
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| Collection I.485.5 | Demonstration of farm machinery, approximately 1955. 1 master film reel: analog, black and white, silent ; 16mm, 1 submaster video file: MOV, and 1 user video file: MP4. | ||||||||||
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| Collection I.485.6 | [Workers on break] undated. 1 master film reel (5 minutes, 44 seconds): silent, b&w; 8mm. reversal positive camera original, and 1 user video file: MP4 (439.1 MB) | ||||||||||
| Workers on break eating, smoking, and playing numerous games such as cards, ping pong and volleyball. | |||||||||||
| Container note: "Fluidizer and filter test films, July 29, 1957. W.R. Carter." | |||||||||||
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CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Agricultural machinery.
- Farm tractors.
- Tractor industry -- Minnesota.
- Organizations:
- Minneapolis-Moline Company.
- Farmhand, Inc.
- Document Types:
- Motion pictures.
- Video recordings.
- Commercials.
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