https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6f8d2479-f715-46d7-8d62-d079a690ca33 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com One of a series of films that showed "Americans at Work", this episode highlights the cattle industry and stockyard workers in particular. It is a short full of cattle prods, whips and meat industry workers. The film takes place primarily at the Sioux City, Iowa Stockyard. The film breaks down intricate processes involved in ensuring the meat reaches consumers. It also shows the change in agriculture in the post-war era as farmers turned from planting crops such as wheat for corn in order to feed the livestock. The film too shows an interesting insight into how the meat supply was controlled in this era, supplying various restaurants with regular meat-based meals at intervals, thus shaping the American diet. The Sioux City Stockyard would grow to cover 80 acres. It was a sprawling ‘town’ including it’s own business offices. The stockyard was opened in 1917 and closed in 2009. “Americans at Work” was a series produced by Norwood Studios created to provide information on various skills and trainings for industrial work in the US in the late 1950’s. In total, 99 films were created and released weekly. Episodes included photography and narration from workers in a variety of fields including the television and steel industry. AFL-CIO is a National Trade Union Center formed in 1955. Workers poke livestock down an antiseptic-filled canal with pitchforks (:24). Nearly 32 million hogs passed through the hog pen annually (:55). Livestock rush for feed (1:05). One of the beasts receives inoculation (1:16). A large truck carts the animals over a bridge for the stockyard (1:44). Workers prepare to unload livestock as the narrator explains the variety of livestock transported here (2:06). A sign welcomes viewers to Sioux City Stockyard (2:29). Aerial sots cover the maze-like expanse (2:34). A stockyard hand hose off the platform (2:39). Hands saw lumber for new quarters (2:56). Rates of US consumption of meat (3:50) follow. Livestock are funneled into pens designated by the firm (4:07). The diet of the cattle is discussed (4:24). Cattle are corralled into pens with rope lassos (5:20). Haybales are unloaded for feed (5:52). The animals are dipped into an antiseptic bath designed to kill fleas and lice (6:57). Sheep baa (7:27) through the tank. Aerial shots pass over the coral (7:57). Images follow from the terminal as narration explains the process of selling (8:07). Commission firm members acting as agents enter the pens (8:45). The commission agent drives the livestock to a scale (9:12). Sales are consummated (9:29). The scale is adjusted (10:03) and weights are marked (10:15). Pigs are whipped into pens (10:46). Packers move forward with cattle prods (11:06). Various meat houses are pictured (11:52); including the Black Saddle Beef House, The Royal Angus Prime Beef House (11:56) and the Black Steer (12:01). Luxury dining was expanded (12:12). Waitresses at the drive-in deliver trays to automobile bound guests (12:16). Youth rush for smoking burgers on the consumers’ home grills (12:21). Workers of the United Packing House (12:58) close pen gates. This film was presented by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (13:14). The seal of the AFL-CIO appears and the narrator sets up viewers for the following episode (13:29) produced by Norwood Studios Inc. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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