https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/65d6b497-1d01-43d1-bccf-a1de995a2d28 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD This is a 1970’s era color film presented by McGraw-Hill films. The title of the film is “Energy: Can’t Do without It”, and dates to 1974. The purpose of the film is to bring attention to the many ways we use energy, the importance of using energy wisely and conserving energy for the future. The film opens with heavy machinery pushing rocks and jackhammers ripping up concrete and entire city streets. Power shovel digs up a street 1:36. A man runs oxen in a field 1:48. People are shown in an agricultural society, 1:55. Thresher is shown processing grain in a field 2:20. People shown walking down a city street 2:44. People living in a cabin using simple forms of energy and camping outdoors 3:15. Man gathers wood 3:36. Ambulance races down the road 3:45. Man makes breakfast with an electric juicer 3:59. Little girl waits for a bus 4:13. People go about their daily routines using different machines that use fuel 4:30. Machines lift cars and squash tomatoes 5:10. Family rides a ski left and snowmobiles 5:40. Food processing factories are shown 6:00. Traffic clogs the streets 6:15. Power plants that produce electricity are shown 6:53. Waterfall 7:05. Niagara Falls on the border between the United States and Canada generates over 400 kW of electricity 7:15. A river floods the plains 7:33. Coal and oil are finite resources 7:50. Man in a coal mine 8:15. Factories are shown throwing off fly-ash and sulfur dioxide 8:35. Oil drilling rigs 8:55. BP tanker truck carries oil down the road 9:15. Oil processing plant 9:35. Gasoline pump is shown 9:38. Automobiles clog the Highway 9:54. New York Times headlines are shown 10:05. World alerts about oil shortages in the newspapers 10:10. Oil barrels shown 10:45. Pipes for the trans-Alaskan pipeline 10:50. Jet plane on the runway 11:45. Children play on an automobile 11:55. Skyscraper construction at the World Trade Center 12:25. The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York 12:40. The Brooklyn Bridge 13:00. Neon signs that use a lot of energy are shown 13:22. A rocket takes off 13:45. People ride on a motorcycle, buses, cars and trucks – airplanes and other vehicles 14:05. Different appliances in use 14:10. 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=29_yVhRoq9M Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:22:35 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/65d6b497-1d01-43d1-bccf-a1de995a2d28 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.