https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/588a3689-4639-450c-9f56-5a874b79f2ec This black and white film is one of a 1950-1960 television series Industry on Parade, produced by the National Association of Manufacturers. It contains four segments. “Behind the Druggist!” The pharmacy at Historic Williamsburg has a wall of jars and containers full of medicinal ingredients. Dressed in historic costumes, the pharmacist uses a mortar and pestle to create a concoction for a female customer (:43-1:53). Pills are mechanically manufactured by Rexall Drug Company. A scientist weighs ingredients and examines test bottles. He grinds its ingredients using a mortar and pestle. The sample is weighed on an analytical balance scale. Potency is tested in hanging tubes. Infrared light waves are passed through a sample and the results graphed by machine (1:54-3:43). The outside and inside of the Rexall Owl Drugs store is shown (3:44-4:02). The advertisement shows classroom models, a teacher at a blackboard, and 1950s elementary school students sitting at wooden desks. A college professor points at a blackboard (4:03-4:39). “School for Bankers!” The National City Bank of New York training center has students interacting as customers and tellers, using play money. A room of adult students using adding machines. A female student receives instruction on using the 1950s proof machine. Another uses a 1950s bookkeeping machine (4:40-6:24). “Putting Color in our Lives!” A Castle Creek Prints Inc. artist paints using dye that will dissolve in water to a textile for silkscreen printing in Washington, New Jersey. The finished stencil is shown on a light board. The screens are laid out on a long strip of fabric. A two-person squeegee squeezes the dye through to the cloth. Since multiple colors are printed, each group of two moves their part of the stencil to the next. A finished length is lifted into the air by pole for drying. Machines perform the same process on Dacron as the dye heads automatically move into position (6:25-8:09). Dyes are dipped into a metal pitcher and poured into a tray. The dyes are fixed as the cloth passes through the machine. A long continuous piece of floral fabric passes upwards and over rollers. Even larger fabric rolls turn (8:10-9:19). A maid finishes a beautiful 1950s table setting on a tablecloth (9:20-9:40). The advertisement has a forklift passing boxes of Whirlpool appliances. A retail showroom showcases small and large GE appliances (9:41-10:18). “Wagon Works!” Huntingburg Wagon Works workers push a cart of lumber into the factory. A worker in overalls planes the wood to make an axle. Mechanical equipment makes precise cuts and a spoke is formed. The axle-skeins are set on a different piece of equipment. The spokes are mechanically driven into the metal hub to form a wheel spider. The wheel rim is dressed and hammered to the spokes by hand. The tire is prepared in the blacksmith shop and is joined to the wheel rim on the setting machine. The stripe is painted on the hub as the wheel spins. A horse-drawn wagon leave a barn and travels down a farm road (10:19-13:29). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." 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=VXpEdXQIk7g Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:14:32 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/588a3689-4639-450c-9f56-5a874b79f2ec 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.