Tourism – Missouri Already Is! (1973) [104_CID_001]

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This 1970s tourism film busts stereotypes about Missouri by focusing on diverse industry, agriculture and workforce. Scenes of lead industry and other metals, lumber, clay, marble, etc.; agriculture, animals and crops; highly-trained workers; automobile manufacturing; interstate highways, airports, railways, river barges; plug for CID Community Betterment Program with award ceremony led by (Governor Warren Hearnes?); plug for Missouri Computerized Site Selector, a first-of-its kind program; higher education; recreation at Lake of the Ozarks; tourism of Big Springs, caves, zoos, Silver Dollar City and Worlds of Fun; St. Louis Cardinals baseball, St. Louis Cardinals football, Kansas City Royals or Athletics baseball, Kansas City Chiefs football, St. Louis Blues hockey; St. Louis Gateway Arch; closes with a montage and a song.

(Produced for Missouri Industrial Development Commission and the Missouri Division of Commerce and Industrial Development by Communico, a Missouri Company; CID Director Henry Maddox; appreciation to the Missouri Air National Guard and the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers; Ron Littrell, Assistant Director; Bob Metz, Second Unit Cameraman; Dave Lewis, Assistant Cameraman; Terry Hobbs, Recordist; Dave Borella, Art Director; Frank Ruttencutter, Cinematographer; Dave Dister, Script and Original Music; Ralph Pasek, Producer; Don Keeslar, Director and Editor.)

Rights: Public domain. Please credit the Missouri State Archives RG104 Department of Economic Development Commerce and Industrial Development (CID) Collection.
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Metal
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