This black and white film is one of a 1950-1960 television series Industry on Parade, produced by the National Association of Manufacturers. It contains four segments. “Pennsylvania”. The Triple Shire dairy farm purposely utilizes electricity. Electrical vacuum milking equipment is attached to cow udders. A system of pipes carries the milk to electric refrigeration (:40-1:55). A Stanley sign is on pegboard holding neatly organized tools. A DeWalt table saw is used. An intercom system connects the buildings. An Edwards Company fire detection system is tested. A Diamond Jubilee Farm sign hangs outside the stone farmhouse. The ceiling fan vent is shown. A milk pasteurizing machine sits on the counter. Fluorescent lights light up a utility room. A woman loads laundry into a slant front 1951 Westinghouse washing machine. Her 1950s kitchen is full of white appliances. She checks a pan and adjusts the burner knob. She unloads dishes from a dishwasher. She opens the upright DeepFreeze door followed by the refrigerator. She pours milk into an electric mixer. A spinning wheel is in the living room. A TV has continual lines across the screen (1:56-5:10). An advertisement shows wringing machines on an overhead conveyer. A man eats toast by a 1950s two-slice toaster; toast pops up. Men work in a research laboratory (5:11-5:51). “Illinois”. A patient on a gurney is wheeled out of the operating room and into his room. The nurse wears a face mask. The IV bottle is shifted over, followed by the patient into his bed. The nurse removes the backboard. A second IV bottle is added (5:53-6:54). IVs and their fluids are manufactured in the Chicago Abbott Laboratories plant. A worker checks vats of intravenous fluids. He adds ingredients that swirl around. A female chemist uses an eyedropper to add liquids to a beaker, which is put over a flame to remove pyrogens. The glass IV bottles are mechanically washed, rinsed, and sterilized in an autoclave. A sample is tested for acidity in a Beckman pH Meter (6:55-8:56). A Victory Memorial Hospital sign is followed by a smiling patient being examined by a nurse with a stethoscope (8:57-9:11). “Midwest”. Meats are packaged at a St. Louis packing plant. The ham is put into polyethylene plastic bags, the air removed, and vacuumed sealed. These are put into a hot bath, causing the polyethylene to shrink around the meat. Labels are applied by hand (9:12-9:50). At the Central States Paper and Bag Company, labels are printed on the polyethylene, which is fed into the printing press. A machine with an electric eye cuts the roll of plastic into bags. A bag is filled with air and the worker tries to pop it by squeezing. The neon Food Town sign is shown above its storefront. Inside, a woman buys meat (9:51-11:30). “Oklahoma”. The streets of Tulsa are clean. The different shoes are shown as pedestrians cross a street. At the John Zink Company plant, workers assemble a smokeless field flare burner (11:31-13:00).