Industry on Parade- State Manufacturing

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1956

Complete Record: Georgia-Manchester, GA. WS of a Manchester city street. MS of the exterior of the Georgia Power Co. Man and woman sit on opposite sides of a desk in an office. Man hands woman a document , she sits and nods affirmingly. CU of mans hands signing the document. Exterior shot of Manchester citizens pouring into a community building for a town meeting, a sign in the right lower corner of the frame says: MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MEETING 7:00 P.M. Woman stands at a podium and addresses a large group of people. Two men sit off to her right listening attentively. MS of the audience in theater-style seat formation sitting perfectly still. Some with their arms crossed. A black woman stands in front of a dilapidated school house and speaks to a mixed crowd of townspeople. The townspeople stand with shovels and pickaxes ready to tear down the building. She finishes her speech and descends from the building, steps. Several of the group follow her and some immediately begin to chip away at the building. WS of men on top of the building demolishing the roof. Men on ground level stack discarded bricks to be recycled at a later date. A group of black teenagers, boys and girls, run past the newly constructed schoolhouse. WS of exterior of Manchester High School. Male Caucasian students play basketball, while cheerleaders in matching uniforms sit in the bleachers rooting them on. WS of young girls and boys playing on swings. Back view of a little girl on a swing set swiveling her head back to look at the camera. Black boys and girls ride bikes in a residential area. Women clean up local parks and cemeteries. Quick shots of urban Manchester. Women working in industrial plants. A sign on the side of a road welcomes folks to Manchester. Idaho-Interior and exterior shots of a building that houses an experimental reactor. Men look up at walls of dials and knobs. CU of a generator. Men sit around a drafting table. Workers lift and lower titanium alloys into a reactor. MS of the reactor core. More shots of dials, knobs and thermostats, men overseeing work in progress. Arco, Idaho a suburban town powered by atomic energy. Shots of box houses and power poles. Arco city street at night. Inter titles- A Message from Industry to You. Students pour out of the front doors of a High School. Generic shots of industry, machines, boxes being shipped, men working. Florida, a man lifts bars of aluminum into a huge melting furnace. Liquid metal is poured out into a holding furnace. A man walks past a device with dials known as a spectromat which can detect all the elements of any metal it is given to sample. CU of a metal alloy being placed in the device to be tested. Workmen pour alloys into molds. Men mark the molded metal with the formulas with which they were made. Men extrude the metal from machines and shape them into useable forms such as window frames. Machines loom metal screens. Exterior shot of a window that was created with these alloys. Ohio, a machine drops giant globs of wheat slurry into a vat where it is mixed. Machines separate non-starch elements from batter. Water is extracted from slurry and pure condensed dry starch is produced. Men pack starch into giant sacks and stack the bags in a huge warehouse. A man in a cap collects gluten from the remainder of the slurry from off a conveyor. Another man stacks trays of gluten into a wall oven. Men do tests to discover other potential uses for the stuff.