https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c01eaaf1-58be-46bf-801a-e2ae8c2cddc5 This color educational film is about the Industrial Revolution. This is from 1950. Opening: A Coronet Film on the Industrial Revolution (:07-:21). A flag of the USA from the late 18th century. Americans plow the field. A woman visits a shop. She looks at an item. A person uses an old machine to sew. Hand tools are used in a craftsman's shop. A man hammers. A man carries a big pail and dumps it. A tall furnace in PA. A man shovels into a hole. Slater's Mill in Pawtucket, RI, built in 1793, is a textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River. It was modeled after cotton spinning mills. Children enter the building. Women spin cotton fibers (:22-2:55). A man plows with a horse. A ship. Embargo Act paper from the Tenth Congress of the United States. A water wheel spins and water flows. Francis Cabot Lowell points at a paper sketch to other men who listen. A cotton gin machine. Piles of cotton. A loom machine weaves cloth (2:56-4:30). Paperwork from a Tariff Act and the Fourteenth Congress of the U.S. Horses and men walk by. Water flows in a river. A map of New England. The Blackstone River, Merrimack River are pointed out. New England farm girls walk with men behind them. The men are Irish immigrants, who chat (4:31-6:07). A man uses a turret lathe, which is a form of metalworking lathe that is used for repetitive production of duplicate parts. He also uses a vernier caliper, which helps take an accurate measurement reading between two graduation markings on a linear scale by using mechanical interpolation; thereby increasing resolution and reducing measurement uncertainty. A woman uses a sewing machine in the 1860s. Her hands move the cloth under the needle. A needle is replaced by the woman. A steamship boat floats on a river. A train goes down the tracks. A smoke stack at a factory. A man shovels coal into an open furnace (6:08-7:58). Iron production. Factory machinery, a train moves down the tracks. A reaper is used on a farm. It moves and chops grain as people move alongside it. Cities shown on a map of the U.S. include: Philadelphia, New York, Providence, Fall River, Patterson, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Rochester, and Chicago. A man works in a factory on a machine. A man works current day in a factory. A woman in the old days works with a hand spinning wheel machine. Exterior of a factory with a smokestack blowing smoke (7:59-10:00). End credits (10:01-10:07). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link 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=XlfNt3iAmUc Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:11:11 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/c01eaaf1-58be-46bf-801a-e2ae8c2cddc5 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.