“ CHRISTMAS IN ELKHORN, WISCONSIN “ 1951 MARCH OF TIME TV SHOW EPISODE XD17834

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This 1951 episode of the short lived TV series “The March of Time” is narrated by Westbrook van Voorhis and follows the events leading up to Christmas in the quaint town of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. It follows around the editor of the local newspaper, “The Elkhorn Independent”, as he visits different people to get his stories for the next newspaper edition. He speaks to the town’s oldest resident, goes to the local high school, the County Clerk, different manufacturers, a dairy farm, and the city’s Common Council among others. 0:10 Title “The March of Time”, 0:40 Map with a someone drawing a circle around Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 0:51 Different scenes of every day life in Elkhorn, 1:15 Footage from inside the office of the “Elkhorn Independent” newspaper, 1:29 March of Time director starts speaking to the editor, 2:48 Overview of the town from the water tower, 3:07 People putting up Christmas decorations on a busy street, 3:50 Editors stops at the house of the town’s oldest resident and begins speaking to him, 5:22 Glee Club at the local High School practicing, 6:35 High School boys creating and painting figures in the wood shop, 6:55 children playing on a playground, 7:33 footage of an average family in Elkhorn with two children, 8:00 Men building a house, 8:26 Editor goes to talk to the Elkhorn County Clerk, 9:35 Footage of companies in Elkhorn such as the United Milk Products Plant, a Dye Company, the Draper Building Supply Company, Elkhorn Chemical Company, and Frank Holton and Co. Band Instruments, 10:07 workers making band instruments at the plant, 10:43 Chief instrument tester testing a trumpet with a chromatic stroboscope, 11:06 High School band playing, 11:38 Doctor E.G. Sorenson shown talking to a patient at the local clinic, 12:18 Editor driving to a dairy farm and speaking to a farmer as his milk is loaded onto a new dairy truck, 13:40 a group of men sitting in front of a fire discussing racing horses, 14:06 Art Shaw a famous trotting race driver shown exercising and driving horses, 14:51 Students celebrating before a Basketball game at the Elkhorn High School Gym, 15:39 Basketball game starts with cheering students, 16:45 Charles Wilson presiding over the city’s Common Council in the municipal building, 17:30 footage of the entry gate of an air force radar station outside of the city, 17:53 Woman observing the sky from the ground and calling someone to note the sighting of an aircraft, 18:33 Group of young men getting on a bus to leave for their military service, 19:39 Paddock family at their farm listening to their son who has just gotten back from fighting in Korea, 20:42 Men and women walking past decorated shops on main street, 21:04 Editor setting up the printer for the last edition before Christmas, 21:13 employee puts the type stones into place, 21:45 Printing press printing the last newspaper edition, 22:08 Footage of a busy intersection covered in light snow, 22:51 Minister’s wife accompanies a choir at St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, 23:47 Minister holding a sermon, 25:34 Elkhorn in the snow, 25:51 Boys setting up a large nativity scene, 26:21 Narrator Westbrook van Voorhis shown talking about the program, The March of Time TV show was based on the newsreel series of the same name, which was also narrated by Westbrook van Voorhis and ran from 1935-1951. The series was originally intended to provide an objective overview of news topics and was based on an earlier radio program launched by CBS Radio. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ 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