Building with the Bobcat (1968)
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nelson, Scott
label: Collection Creator
content: Bobcat Company
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content: Bobcat Company Records
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content: Bobcat Company Records / Series 10: Audiovisual Materials / 10.3: Sales
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: 16 mm composite optical track film, 490 feet, 14 minutes

Film for dealers showing the usefulness of demonstration of the Bobcat in sales in conjunction with the Bobcat's small size, maneuverability, and flexibility. This message is shown through the large dealership in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota and the small operation in Barneveld, Wisconsin. Includes customer testimonials. Footage includes the Bobcat moving dirt and debris, charging a mixer, leveling the ground, moving snow, working as a ditcher, assisting in landscaping, loading trucks, moving bricks, lifting a concrete slab, leveling and filling a site, participating in site cleanup, compacting back fill, its use in sidewalk construction, and it being moved via crane. Attachments are shown that can dig fence holes, landscape, prepare the ground for sidewalk construction, and remove snow.