This black & white educational film is a newsreel that features products/businesses being featured in America. No copyright but this is circa the mid-1950s.

Opening: Industry on Parade. Title: Texas (:06-:44). A field of rice. A harvester goes through the crops. A tractor on the field. A plant in Houston, TX. Rice truck is opened, rice spills out (:45-1:42). Title: This film is made available to the schools of Utah by the Utah Manufacturers Association. Industry on Parade – California (1:43-2:24). A man sits at a desk. Drafting and design department for a new type of jet: the Pogo. A test flight for the Pogo jet. A pilot will be in the craft. The pilot climbs the ladder and gets in. The rotors are starting, the craft is ready for takeoff. The plane does a horizontal flight and takes off into the sky. The men who planned it watch. It is a Convair experimental plane: the Convair XFY Pogo. The Pogo has delta wings and a three bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a turboprop engine. The Pogo lands horizontally in a circle very slowly (2:25-5:38). Title: message from industry to you. A man places plastic in water and it curls backwards and out of the water. Men have pieces to make toy dolls, they look over a design map. A man stacks chairs (5:39-6:18). Title: Maryland. A woman holds a ceramic horse head. She paints it. Places it into a kiln. She winds a clock. Later, she opens the kiln and removes the head. Pemco Corp. in Baltimore, MD. Bags of glazing compounds in the factory. A man takes a batch up by crane to mix. Raw materials are melted for making enamel. They fall from a smelter. From this frit is made. Glaze is being made in the smelter. It is cooled in water and crystalizes. Fire driers as seen from inside. The Pemco Frit is shipped out in bags. Bathtubs on an assembly line have glaze on them (6:19-9:30). Title: Oregon. A truck drives. A man has a model of a road with some model cars to demonstrate safe driving. He talks with people who use company vehicles. He gives driving and parking tests to test the drivers. A man backs up and then he parallel parks a truck. Men watch a truck drive. He fires paint at a car to make the car stop. He measures distance with a tape measurer.Title: message from industry to you. Children play. High school students leave school. Businessmen look at a model. A man works in a food factory (9:31-11:56). Title: Illinois. A car full of hunters pulls in and parks near Nilo Farms, a hunting preserve in Brighton, IL. The man who runs Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. brings people to hunt with. Dogs in a kennel. Pheasants in a pen. Men look at a field. Men hunt with rifles in a field. A dog assist the hunters who shoot a pheasants. The dog brings a dead pheasant over. Men shoot at ducks. A dog jumps into the river to fetch a dead duck. The dog brings the dead duck back to a hunter (11:57-14:25). End credits (14:26-14:36).

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The Convair XFY Pogo was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tail-sitter. The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a turboprop engine. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter aircraft capable of operating from small warships. Landing the XFY-1 was difficult, as the pilot had to look over his shoulder while carefully working the throttle to land. It became evident that even if technical problems could be overcome, such VTOL aircraft would be flown only by the most experienced pilots. Thus, it was not feasible to place VTOL fighters—as previously hoped for—on every ship. Also, whereas jet-engined fighters had top speeds that approached Mach 2, the turboprop VTOL fighter was at a disadvantage with a top speed below Mach 1. Due to these problems, the XFY Project was put on hiatus.

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