One of a series of films made by the National Association of Manufacturers, this black & white film “Industry on Parade” contains segments about nickel mining at Sudbury, Ontraio, manufacturing Eagle lead pencils and Industrial Brownhoist cranes. The film ends with a profile of four retirees from the General Petroleum Corporation. This was made circa the mid 1950s.
Opening credits: Industry on Parade: The Need for Nickel! (:07-:36). Sudbury Basin of Ontario. A mining outfit hangs above a man. Men dressed get their lights. The miners get into an elevator shaft. A diamond drilling job is under way. To mine nickel, dynamite is inserted and then detonated. After the blast, the ore and rock is put into mining cars. Rocks are broken down and then placed in the cars and brought back to the surface. Nickel rock goes down a conveyor belt. Miners exit the elevator and are back above ground (:37-3:21). A Sudbury suburban community. A message to industry from you title card. A man sits at a desk. A crane moves. Trucks. Factory life. A woman walks near machines (3:22-4:20). Title card: Pointers on Pencils! Children sit in class. Students right down using pencils. Eagle Pencil Company in New York City. Materials to make a pencil. Clay and graphite being mixed. Lead looks like a black shoestring. The lead is put into an oven to be stronger. Pencils are shown being made and filled with lead. Wood to lead is bound. A machine pushes the pencils through as they are cut and made to be the shapes we know them as. A man places them into a machine where they are branded and erasers are added. Finished pencils. A child uses a pencil (4:21-7:29). Title card: Hoisting The Big Ones! A crane moves at Industrial Brownhoist in Bay City, Michigan. Assembly of a fifty ton tractor type hoist. Men walk around a machine. A seventy five ton railroad crane rolls out of the factory. The crane shifts and moves. A message to industry from you title card. Dollars being printed in Washington, D.C. Dollar sheets are being cut. People at a bank. Men in a machine shop. Men go to work (7:30-10:11). Title card: Golden Twilight! Four men who retired from a subsidiary of Saucony Vacuum Oil Corp. / Standard Oil are shown enjoying life as senior citizens. An older man and a woman relax. Johnny Scott in Los Angeles. He goes over to his car and gets in. Johnny walks to his fishing boat. He gets on it, hoses it down. Has his fishing net ready. Jack Carpenter helps the blind at the Braille Institute. Blind people sit as Jack helps them. Jack helps sell used clothing at a thrift store to help the blind. Basement workshop of Clarence Degruff. A woman watches him do woodworking. He cuts wood in a machine. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Lemert sit and review a map. He hands his wife a rifle. She puts on a hat. The two drive off in a car towing a trailer (10:12-13:26). End credits (13:27-13:37).
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