Industry on Parade - Skylines of America

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1952

Complete Record: ‘Improve the Harvest. Oranges are cut and squeezed by machines, sent on a conveyor and washed by mechanized spraying devices. A shot of vast corn fields. An elderly farmer takes an enlarged ear of corn out of a box and displays it for the camera. A woman kneels and boxes grass plugs for shipment. A WS of a greenhouse. Inside the greenhouse a man pollinates roses. A man on a huge tractor collects corn that is put into a snapping and husking machine. Men separate disfigured ears. In a seed laboratory women stack trays of seed samples. Examples of seeds that have begun to sprout and ones that have not are held up for the camera. Women at worktables do tests on samples of sprouted seeds. Women separate out the bad seeds assisted by machines. Apple trees are picked by an apple farmer. Suited men in an office sample new varieties of apples. Old men whittle apple tree branches and graft different types together with tape. Men hand cut tree branches in fields. A machine sprays insecticide over crops. Men work in fields. A bank teller helps a customer depositing a check. Bank teller and secretary on phones. Side view of a woman putting away files. A glassblower makes a camera tube with a big piece of licorice hanging out of his mouth. A woman assembles the camera tube. MS of multiple women doing the same. A man puts camera in a protective cylindrical housing. Examples of different uses of industrial cameras, i.e., a hospital room. A sickly half smiling girl lies in bed motionless with with a doll. Great back view shot of a nurse looking at the patient on a monitor. Side view of nurse making notes, and CU of monitor. The Plymouth Co. builds boxes with aging labor. Elderly men slide wooden pieces onto and off of conveyors. CU of machines at work. Church services in the plant! Old men sit looking bored and bowing their heads in prayer. Too close CU of preacher giving his sermon. Men get up and go back to work. Shots of men again at work.