Industry on Parade was a long-running TV show made by the National Association of Manufacturers. This episode likely dates to the mid-1950s.

Opening titles: Hauling on High! (:08-:39). San Francisco Airport. A new airline is just for cargo. Air freight companies like Slick Airways is booming. The plane starts to take off, wheels move, the plane is in the air. The plane is then emptied. Baby chicks are played with, they’re in a box. Detroit Airfreight Terminal. A tractor is loaded onto the plane. Title: a message from industry. Men in a factory. Artillery pieces. Men work on their machines. Soldiers carry a wounded man (:40-3:06). Title: Riding the Lionel Line! Irvington, NJ. Men work at the Lionel Corp. making toy trains. A toy train is being tested. Half of the train works, the wheels spin. A worker assembles a locomotive. A woman picks up some train parts. A man paints them. A woman places finished pieces on a belt. Women work on making accessories like Lionelville or Plasticville type houses, water towers. Testing lab – a train goes round and round on a track. Crossing gates rise. Cows enter a cattle car, milk jugs go into a milk car. All these toys look like the real thing. (3:07-6:56). Title: Fairest Customer’s Man on Wall Street. Interesting portrait of a woman on Wall Street. Exterior of the New York Stock and Curb Exchange. Men inside the building move around. A woman walks into the building and down the hall, Barbara Guilder who works at Dreyfus & Co. She works with her male counterparts. The stock price numbers on the board. Barbara the phone to consult a customer (6:57-9:26). Title: Oldest Pharmacy Going Strong! America’s Oldest Drug Store, The Apothecary, recreated in Williamsburg, VA. Horse and buggy, a woman leaves her carriage, visits the store. Everything in the shop has been recreated as it was 190 years ago. A man makes a concoction. Vases, tea leaves, silverware. A woman purchases and leaves. A man buys his tobacco by the twist and starts to smoke it. A man leaves (9:27-11:16). Title: Thousands Jam Business Show! Sign for: National Business Show. A machine makes newspapers, another turn with cards in it, a new file system. A machine ties up a box. A handicap woman types a typewriter. Automatic page turner turns pages of a book. A combination lock is open and the desk reveals a safe. An auto pen copies your signature (11:17-12:44). Title: Seven Mile Snapshot! Bell & Howell Co. making reconnaissance cameras in Lincolnwood, IL. Camera factory, aerial cameras being made for planes like the U-2. Water sprays at a lens. Gauges are checked. Man cleans up the lens. The camera lens is created. A suction cup helps piece elements together. The retaining ring is the last piece before tested on a test bench. A test pattern is photographed and analyzed. The lens is mounted onto a camera. Aerial shot from miles away (12:45-17:39). Title: a message from industry to you. Office with women at desks. Men sit and listen. A union meeting. A woman talks, men look at paperwork. Drafting equipment (17:40-18:19). Title: Gooberville, U.S.A.! Goober factory in Columbus, GA. Peanuts sorted mechanically then by hand. Birds eat peanuts from a hand (18:20-20:58). Title: New Defense Against Fire! Thomas A. Edison, Inc. laboratory in New Jersey, where the phonograph was invented, has now invented a heat sensitive cable that can be used to set off a fire extinguisher. Title: a message from industry. A machine shop. Women at a supermarket. Title: Hollywood’s Strangest Factory! Electro medical equipment being made by women. A man puts a machine together. Looks like real equipment. machines for a lab or outer space. A cosmic ray. (20:59-25:29). Title: Scooters Come of Age! Men test Lincoln, NE Cushman scooters. Husky engine cylinder heads are made. Wheels tested. Scooters race down the street. Title: a message from industry. Everyday people walk around, some vote. People listen in a crowd

(25:30-30:06). Title: Doctors of Design! Scarsdale, NY. A house where almost everything inside is made of plastic. A man designs a prototype typewriter using clay (30:07-33:06). Title: Landmarks for Lawyers! A lawyer reviews law books produced by Shepard’s Citations. Colorado Springs, CO. Title: a message from industry to you. People march to protest (33:07-35:39). Title: Artistry in Glass. Stained glass windows being made in St. Louis, MO. Colored glass cut and pieced, soldered, and finished (35:40-38:23). End credits (38:24-38:34).

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