This black and white film is one of a 1950-1960 television series Industry on Parade, produced by the National Association of Manufacturers. It features four segments. “The Great Metal Mystery!” The Eagle Picher lead and zinc mine is shown near Joplin, Missouri. A truck discharges gallium onto a conveyer belt. Samples are tested in a laboratory and a man holds a handful of the nuggets. A gallium nail is pounded into a board in a warm room, where it time-lapse melts. A lab scientist pours the nuggets onto a double-pan balance scale (:07-2:06). “The Tape with Muscles!” The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. of Saint Paul, makers of scotch tape, added rayon fibers in a glass filament to produce filament tape. A factory worker pours the liquid from a bucket into a tray from which the filament is formed in a large sheet over rollers. A jumbo roll is machine-cut into 1” wide rolls. A man tries to stretch and break the tape. A 1949 Hudson Commodore is stuck in a snowbank. A woman flags down the drive of a 1940s Plymouth. They secure the two vehicles together with the filament tape and he pulls her out of the snowbank. A cardboard packing box is secured with two small strips of the tape and subjected to machine testing, where it holds. A young woman in a late 1940 dress with white collar and cuffs swings; the rope is actually the tape (2:50-5:24). “The Beauty ‘Round Your Neck!” a kaleidoscope of men’s ties is shown. An artist hand-paints tie designs. A mixer blends dyes, shown in buckets. Silk-screen workers hand-squeegee the dye through the stencils onto a long sheet of silk. The fabric rolls are washed, steamed, and pressed. The fabric is hand-cut into smaller portions from the individual tie pieces are cut. Women sew the pieces, by hand and by machine, adding the lining. Finished ties are pressed. A woman helps a man adjust his suit tie (5:26-9:10). “Doll House Deluxe!” A little girl adds a composition doll to a Blend-Air large dollhouse. Her mother, wearing a half-apron over her dress, explains to the little girl how heating and cooling works. Clouds of cold vapor fill the dollhouse, pooling on the floor. Warm air is pumped in that forces the cold air through vents and out the top, now warmed. A Madame Alexander Cissy doll stands in another room in the dollhouse (9:11-10:38). An advertisement for the manufacturing industries shows buildings, desk workers in a factory, a man operating a lathe, and women stacking piles of metal tubing (10:39-11:19). “New Scenes on the Old River!” Steel companies such as Jones & Laughlin use paddle steamer riverboats to transport raw materials. Closeups are shown of the paddles, captain’s view, and the steam whistles. Diesel river boats are shown, including the navigational radar equipment, the diesel engines, and one pushing a barge (11:21-12:56).

Eagle-Picher Corporation (now reduced to EaglePicher Technologies) is a privately held, American, manufacturing and resource extractive company known for its storage battery technology. It was founded in 1842 as a paint manufacturing firm using the name Eagle White Lead, and became Eagle-Picher Lead in 1916 with its merger with a lead mining company owned by Oliver Picher. That merger made it the second largest producer of lead and zinc products in the world.[1] It has had many subsidiaries including the Eagle-Picher Mining & Smelting Company (now EP Minerals), Eagle-Picher Industries, EaglePicher Technologies, EaglePicher Commercial Power Solutions, and Wolverine Advanced Materials. Eagle-Picher was one of the defendants in the asbestos litigation,[2] and has twice been through bankruptcy reorganization.[3] After numerous divestitures, the remaining core company EaglePicher Technologies was sold to OM Group Inc. in 2010.

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