https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b3088143-be40-4564-a1f9-05e47674bb19 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1947 patriotic film "Power Behind the Nation" was produced by Warner Bros. and looks at the importance of industrial production and its role in U.S. history. It contains detailed, yet rapid, imagery of different industrial sectors including steel, chemicals, textiles, and timber. It also looks at the breadth of natural resources that the US is endowed with and how vital these are for industrial production, including coal, copper, oil, iron, and stone. It seeks to promote patriotic sentiment by showing that it is people coming together that make all of this industrial production possible and that ultimately are the reasons for American prosperity. 0:07 Motion Picture Association of America presents, 0:11 a man in a suit speaking to other men in an office, 0:52 “The Power Behind the Nation” 1947, supervised by Gordon Hollingshead, edited by Anthony de Leon, narrated by Art Gilmore, 1:04 produced by Warner Bros Studios, 1:07 the US Capitol, 1:21 Pilgrims arriving in North America, 1:53 Pioneer Settlers going West and building new settlements and railroads, 2:40 a Western town, 3:02 people working in various jobs including in factories, on fields, fishing, and construction, 4:24 motors and turbines running in factories, 5:00 ships and docks to highlight the US’ position in commerce, 5:11 cars being produced in a production line, 5:21 steel being produced, 5:36 fish being loaded onto a ship, 5:57 coal miners sitting on a train taking them into a mine, 6:12 miners mining coal with TNT, 6:44 steel furnaces burning and smokestacks from chimneys, 7:22 miners leaving the mine after their shift, 7:36 oil, coal, copper, granite, stone, and iron being mined, 8:08 iron ore being melted, processed, and cast, 8:31 completed copper wire being rolled, 8:41 timber processing, 9:06 lumberjacks harvesting sequoia trees, 9:27 harvested timber being processed, 9:48 lumber being processed for papermaking, 9:56 newspapers being printed, 10:21 a radio program being recorded in a studio, 10:35 different films being filmed, 10:54 people walking in crowded streets in New York City, 11:19 the Empire State Building, 11;42 different farms extending over the US countryside, 12:01 tractors and combine harvesters harvesting grain, cotton, and tobacco, 12:24 different forms of livestock including sheep and cattle, 12:54 a dam reservoir, 13:12 people harvesting apples, 13:23 different freight and passenger trains driving along, 13:53 the Golden Gate Bridge, 14:11 aerial shots of different dams, 14:27 electrification: overview of power lines and transformers, 14:59 Continental DC-3 on the tarmac, 15:10 a TWA Stratoliner taxiing, 15:23 glass bottles being manufactured, 15:53 paints and dye manufacturing, 16:26 different industrial sectors in the US including textile manufacturing and housing construction, 16:38 the skyline of New York City, 17;10 different Churches across the US, 17:24 St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC, 17:44 production of consumer goods including cars and food, 18:17 Mt. Rushmore, 18:25 children at a school, 18:36 the inside of the Lincoln Memorial, 18:40 the Statue of Liberty, 18:55 different hands shaking across a map of the US Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink 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=Xm8Dd7i8PbA Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:29:55 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/b3088143-be40-4564-a1f9-05e47674bb19 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.