https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/48044076-9b55-48fc-8012-5a6f19a11047 Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm “Industry On Parade was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the [program’s] decade-long run.” This 1955 episode (no. 247) begins with a look at making an atomic clock in Massachusetts, starting with a shot of a grandfather clock then one of an industrial facility (presumably the National Company, Inc) in Malden, MA. Inside a National Company, Inc. laboratory (01:02), a man assembles an atomic clock. He puts cesium into an electric oven and places the small oven into a tube and lowers it into a pressure chamber. Dr. Richard Daley explains to his colleagues how an atomic clock works inside the room. Viewers see several examples of atomic clocks powered by the cesium and tube. At MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (03:24), Professor Gerald Zacharias goes over the periodic table, then he shows how atoms can be controlled using a marble and ramp example. The episode’s second segment takes viewers to the Scripto, Inc. manufacturing plant in Atlanta, GA (04:51), where the company manufactures ballpoint pencils. Women mold plastic pencil bodies and stamp them into the traditional hexagonal shape. A man polishes the tiny ball point used for releasing liquid lead cartridges (05:49). Replaceable cartridge tubes are manufactured and come off a conveyer belt. A machine drills a tip then inserts the ball point for the pencil. Women assemble the pencils and put the pencils into holders on a conveyer belt, which move down to have erasers placed on the tops of them. In the following segment, two businessmen at San Francisco Western Machinery Company look at a new pump that uses a recessed impeller designed to transport fruit (08:10). Live goldfish are moved through the pump, unharmed. The men then run tennis balls through the pump. Viewers see the pump in action at the Lancaster olive packing plant of B.E. Glick and Sons (09:36). In the episode’s final segment, a farmer builds a pit silo using a trenching machine from Taylor Machine Works of Louisville, MS (10:59). Men pour concrete into the trenches to make the walls for the silo. After the concrete cures, a bulldozer moves in and excavates dirt between the two walls. Men pour concrete on the floor of the underground silo. The episode ends with cows moving into the silo and eating fodder. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoDElB6HMCg Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:28:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/48044076-9b55-48fc-8012-5a6f19a11047 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.