Sponsored Films

Tornado (1956)
Sponsor: United Gas Corp.; Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. Production Co.: Calvin Co. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 15 minutes.

Public service film showing how farm families can protect their communities by reporting approaching storms. In this dramatized documentary a farm family spots a tornado and makes a report to the local warning network, part of the front line of defense of the United States Weather Bureau’s Tornado Forecast and Warning Service.

Note: Some 255 prints of this film were distributed through the U.S. Weather Bureau and state film libraries in the tornado belt. Tornado was seen by an estimated 42 million viewers in the first year of release and is said to have spurred 240 communities to establish local tornado warning networks.

Resources
"Timely Award to Tornado Film as Spring Storms Highlight news," Business Screen 18, no. 2 (1957): 77.