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Factories on film, the documentary thread, and the festival test

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The factories-on-film test prints as a documented negative of the floor's exact kind: neither the aluminum plant under any of its names (Wells, Hydro, Sapa, Hydro Extrusion) nor the earlier Cole works has a film record found — no company picture, plant tour film or industrial short naming the North Liberty works was located in the corporate or archive record at web strength, and the firm's film history, such as Hydro keeps it, is corporate and Norwegian, not seated here. Settler: the Hydro heritage archive and the Indiana Historical Society's industrial-film holdings, searched by plant. The documentary thread is the same: no documentary of the town's defining events — the park's making, the plant's founding, the railroads' leaving — was found; Potato Creek State Park appears in state-park promotional video as all Indiana parks do, at pointer size, not as a documentary subject. The festival test: no film festival was founded, held or lost in North Liberty; the county's festival history is South Bend's (the River Bend Film Festival, founded there in 2002 and later departed), printed here as the neighboring fact it is and not borrowed.

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Source: Factories on film, the documentary thread, and the festival test, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/film/factories-on-film-the-documentary-thread-and-the-festival/