https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/e36bb846-c5b5-4c37-aa47-c921c48dcbd7 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 episode of “Industry on Parade” presents a look at various companies in Idaho, Utah and Florida. This award-winning, nationally syndicated series ran weekly from 1950-1960 and relayed various complex processes designed to transform raw materials into consumer goods for the market. Argonne, Utah gets powered up with nuclear power for the first time using the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1. Viewers tour a starch production factory and witness the fabrication of jalousie windows. Episodes were pro industry and optimistically liberal. The series was written, produced and narrated by Arthur Lodge. The episode begins at Argonne National Laboratory (:34) in 1951. An experimental reactor pulls a meager supply of electricity from the atom in a complex and clunky process (:39). Heat results and converts to steam. Steam runs to the turbine (:57) powering the generator. Atomic energy commission scientists (1:16) and private sector scientists sought more effective methods. A worker lifts a reactor plate of alloy (1:35). The view runs over the control room (2:10). Rods are withdrawn from the reactor core in the reactor building (2:22). Television monitors track steam pressure (2:38). The valve releases enough energy to power a small city (2:44). The main drag runs through Arco, Idaho (2:51) cutting past residential homes and a white chapel church (2:55). Population was 1200. Workers of the Utah Power and Light Company and Argonne Laboratory (3:09) stand below a telephone line. UPL was the first utility corporation to enter the atomic age. Nuclear reactors appear (3:27). Arco and the substation of UPL ready themselves (3:34). Regular electric supply is snubbed, nuclear power is unleashed (3:45). A ‘Message from Industry’ (4:03) discusses increase in population and standards of living. IOP goes to Florida (4:41) for a tour an atom engineering company. Ingots of aluminum melt down in a furnace in the Adams Engineering Company's Miami factory (4:46). Samples are pulled (5:05) for composition of specific ingredients (5:19). Dials spin; minerals are traced (5:30). Tubes of Aluminum alloy (5:53) are marked with formulas. Jalousie windows; composed of parallel glass, get fabricated (6:34).  A female industry worker stands on the assembly line (6:47). Looms are used for aluminum screening and plastic webbing (6:57). A Floridian venetian blind company expands upon the foreign innovation. Palms and youth lean on white summer chairs in the yard (7:04). Keever Starch Co. Wheat starch, corn starch and by products are manufactured in Columbia, Ohio. 12000 pounds of flour pour into a meter (7:33). Dough is unrolled (7:38) and carted off to a large vat (7:47). Non starch elements unload (7:58). The liquid mixture bounces and pricks up as starches are extracted within the rotating drum (8:00). Water is removed from mixture via screen (8:23) or dryer (8:28). Starch (8:30) and four are packed (8:41). Factory employees pull off chunks (8:50) of gooey gluten; edible wheat protein. Finished products are ground up and shipped to various food manufacturers. Chunks shimmy down the conveyor belt (9:03) for use in production of products like cereals and monosodium glutamate (MSG). MSG today is known for causing obesity and Chinese restaurant syndrome. A note from industry (9:59) takes a look at the growing marketing and distribution system. The Gemological Institute for America, founded in 1931, sponsors a study of gemstones for US students (10:48). Student jeweler’s peer through the microscope at precious stones (11:00). Close shots watch an uncut diamond (11:39), an unnatural sapphire (12:26), natural sapphire (12:49) and fifty five point diamond (13:03). Civic activities of a small business operated by Francis Schuster are featured. This segment relays how Francis merged with a local township school building corporation (13:29) in order to build new schools. Community leaders set up a nonprofit holding corporation (13:46). Cyclists ride by the completed school (14:07). Kids learn to hold their breath underwater (15:16). Francis visits the Perry Township Fire Department (15:41) where he operated as First Chief. The film closes with the usual mantra (18:08) "Builder of a Better Tomorrow" and the National Manufacturers logo (18:17). 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. 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