“Industry On Parade was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the [program’s] decade-long run.”
This episode, “Wealth From The Sea,” shows viewers the variety of oceanic resources that American industries rely on. The film opens with shots of the ocean (00:35): waves hit rocky shores, tropical beaches, and more. A scuba diver (or “skin diver”) comes up to the surface (01:23). Divers explore the sea, and footage shows fish and vegetation under the sea. A large cargo ship sits at a dock (02:32); a car is loaded onto the ship. Bags are loaded onto a passenger ship via a conveyer belt. Men unload fish from fishing boats (03:12) and send the catch to processing plants for canning and freezing. A dead humpback whale, caught near San Francisco by the Del Monte Fishing Company, awaits transportation (03:58). A helicopter lands on an offshore oil drilling rig not far from Louisiana’s coast (04:10). Men on an oil rig move drilling pipe into position. The Texas Tower radar station on George’s Shoal sits above the water (05:18); inside, men monitor radar screens. Off the New York coast, men lower a dredge to pump white sand up to the barge (05:52). A diver brings a basket of sponges up to a boat (06:21). Men in small boats harvest kelp off the Oregon coast (06:55). In the Gulf of Mexico, at Galveston Bay, oyster shells are pumped onto a barge using a large hydraulic dredge (07:29). Sea shells are made into buttons at a factory (08:04). At the Royal Crystal Salt Company’s operation at Utah’s Great Salt Lake, men use tractors to shovel and haul salt (08:51). The Johns Manville Corporation mines diatomite (09:29). At Freeport, TX, the Dow Chemical Company pumps in sea water to use for various operations (09:57). The company collects sea shells to form magnesium hydroxide. Shots show the large plant: milk of magnesia is pumped into large steel tanks (11:53); acid is slowly added to create magnesium chloride, which is then processed into magnesium and stored at the plant.
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