https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9ed08d9f-5512-463b-9da2-409ab0a4db89 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 This is an episode of 'Industry on Parade;’ a television program made to promote American manufacturing businesses. It shows complicated industrial processes that transform raw material into completed products for store shelves and consumer homes. The show aired from 1950 to 1960 and was produced by the National Association of Manufacturers. This episode features clay and rice production and details how corporations might sell off over surplus items such as tomatoes. The episode opens in Indiana (:48). It focuses on the issue of overabundance in industry using the tomato as example and delivering methods to quell the issue. Farm hands harvest a bumper crop of tomatoes (:51). The warehouse of a tomato processing plant (1:06) is pictured overstocked (1:21). Industry representatives meet in New York (1:36) and plan a campaign to encourage consumers to purchase tomatoes (1:48). A housewife opens a can of tomatoes (1:57) in a test kitchen and prepares meals using tomatoes (2:11). The film travels to various distributers (2:59) and manufacturers (2:59). Recipes including tomatoes are set out (3:02) to further entice shoppers to purchase tomatoes (3:11). Grocers set products near the recipes; another marketing technique. The film travels to Fort Worth, Texas to show how a small business might begin using a grandmother and daughter crafting ceramics for sale (4:55). The grandmother travels to Libbet Tool and Die plastic molders mold making (5:30) to have a production mold manufactured (5:37). Light weight designs are pumped out (5:51). Completed products are taken to a Brodart Industry (6:38). The book rest is pictured in consumer homes as the product takes off (6:51). Workers head into work in New York at the Waldees Clothing Factory (7:04). The narrator mentions a shift in worker attire (7:21). The camera view runs down the pants of a worker noting the stitching style (8:01). The narrator selects a few of the workers to display the fashion of the industry worker of the day including shirt tops with pockets (8:19), high waist bands (8:30), slacks with criss cross belt loops (8:53). Male and female workers clock out (9:28). Christmas ornaments are manufactured in Massachusetts at the Stryoformics plant (10:43). A hunk of Styrofoam is pushed through a bunny cut out (11:32). Thin slices of the decorations are sent off for packaging (12:39). A small family sticks the Styrofoam decorations on their window (12:50). Other uses for Styrofoam are explored (13:17). Rice production is looked to (13:57) at an Uncle Bens rice factory (13:57). A house wife prepares rice (14:07). Mississippi clay is dumped into a new storage plant (14:29) in Meridian, Idaho. Steel clad wheels pummel the clay into powder (14:38) at W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturer in Kansas City, Missouri. Walter S. Dickey founded the company in 1889. Powered clay and water meet (14:55) in a hydraulic press. Clay is moved from pipe to beehive kiln (15:29). Salt is added to the kiln (16:12). Venetian blinds are constructed in a Seattle based iron and metal company (17:26). Female industry workers craft vertical blinds (18:21). A housewife shuts her blinds at home (19:00). The sugar industry is explored using the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company (19:53). Sugar is extracted from beet juice (20:07). The crystallization process is detailed (20:38). Sugar runs through revolving granulators (21:15). Packaged cartons of sugar bounces down the assembly line (22:10). In Massachusetts (22:15) an expert lecture is delivered to studying scientists. The narrator mentions a shortage of students and teachers (22:29). Raymond Stevens of the Arthur D. Little Inc. based in Cambridge, Massachusetts meets with high school science teachers (23:02). They perform research, one at a high school (23:16) and the other at a laboratories of the firm of a research and consulting company (23:23). The pair switch positions for three years (23:34) in order to improve the quality of teaching. Gwen Frostic sketches in Frankfurt, Michigan (24:52). The Presscraft Papers shop appears (25:00). Her process of sketching and making prints is detailed (25:23). The final section visits Sky-Go Farms (27:39) and their dairy production processes (27:52). Milk is loaded into delivery trucks (29:12) and loaded into drive up vending machines (29:36). 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. 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