Motion Picture Films
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940
label: Collection Author
content: Davis, Myra Tolmach
label: Collection Photographer
content: Hofmeister, Richard
label: Collection Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
setName: label: See more items in
content: Samuel Yellin Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928, 1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Films in Series 1 digitized in 2020.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The films are: (1) "The Making of Wrought Iron", produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows an artist sketching a grille and Yellin shaping a grille for a chair. (2) "The Florida Film" shows examples of Yellin's first work as used in the Singing Tower, Mountain Lake, Florida.  Both are distributed by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.