Industry on parade. [1957 No. 380, Museums of industry and science]

Authors:Arthur J. Lodge, Roger A. Young, National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.), Arthur Lodge Productions, Peabody Collection

Summary:"Industry on Parade ... is a 13:30 minute weekly documentary series, each issue of which is devoted to a treatment 'in depth' of one phase or another of American industry's contribution to this country and to the world."--1957 Peabody Digest. This episode looks at historic sites, museums, factories, industrial plants and other places where visitors may view manufacturing processes or objects used in manufacturing or industry. It includes footage of an apothecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg; a silversmith at Old Sturbridge Village; iron forging at the restored ironworks in Saugus, Mass.; glass blowing in Jamestown, Va.; the Drake oil well in Titusville, Penn.; the restored Black Maria studio at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, N.J.; restored mining towns in Buena Park [probably Knott's Berry Farm, although not identified as such] and Calico, Calif.; the Wright Brothers' first airplane and other items in the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Collection; and fountain pen nib manufacture at a Schaefer Pens factory

Film, English, 1957

Publisher: National Association of Manufacturers, New York, N.Y., 1957