This black and white film is probably one of a 1950-1960 television series Industry on Parade, produced by the National Association of Manufacturers. The producer, format, and announcer are the same, only this one is called “In Business and Industry”. This episode has four segments and two advertisements. Strength from the Soil! Bags of Huron Portland Cement stacked on an open trailer are driven off. The Huron Portland Cement factory in Alpena, Michigan is shown (:20-:57). An excavator bucket picks up large amounts of material at the Wyandotte Chemical Corporation quarry. A loaded dump truck takes the large pieces of limestone and dumps them into the crusher. A skip car hauls the smaller chunks up to another crusher. The now smaller chunks tumble past on a conveyer to the rotary kiln. The results are ground to become Portland cement. The S.T. Crapo bulk Huron Cement carrier is shown on the Great Lakes (:58-3:25). Advertisement. Men work in laboratory coats and wear neck ties as they work in a room filled with equipment. Product tubes receive lids on an assembly line (3:26-4:04). Craft Therapy! The Brandt Cabinet furniture factory is shown in Hagerstown, Maryland. A craftsman clamps pieces of wood together for a table top, uses the lathe to turn table legs, and the table is assembled. A conveyer holds finished products. A boxed product slides down a ramp. A close-up commemorates the 1951 50-year anniversary of Brandt. Workers pose for an outdoor Brandt company photo (4:05-6:07). Housefly’s Nemesis! The National Plastic Products Company in Odenton, Maryland makes saran. A worker adds materials to vats. The plastic is shown coming out of extruders. The cooled and stretched saran filament is shown on large spindles and boxed. The Lumite Division of Chicopee Manufacturing in Georgia weaves the saran into plastic fabric. The mechanical loom is reloaded with saran and shown in action. The finished insect screen cloth is packed into boxes for shipment. A woman at a cabin nails the insect screen cloth to wood frames to protect her windows (6:08-9:44). Advertisement. People walk along inside a large bank, receiving money from tellers behind open railings (9:45-10:23). World’s Best Known Baby! All day suckers with a safety handle are shown being manufactured by the Curtiss Candy Company. Chocolate is poured out of a vat to be machine stirred. What looks like a weaving snake on an assembly line will be chopped into fruit drops, which next are wrapped in foil and paper roll tubes. The “Chocolate Melting Department” sign is shown. Baby Ruth candy bars are shown in production, including the corn starch base, fudge added, roasted peanuts pressed in, and coated with chocolate. The wrapper process is followed by boxes of Baby Ruth candy bars loaded into a Baby Ruth truck. The large words on the side of the Curtiss Baby Ruth Candy factory also say “Rich is Dextrose”. Two children munch on Baby Ruth candy bars (10:24-13:12).

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