Produced in 1947 by Warner Bros., “The Power Behind the Nation” is a patriotic film that stresses the indispensability of good, solid, American workmanship. It was made about the “America that all Americans love” and “takes up the story of the pioneering that made America what it is today.” Features great images of the heavy industry of the 40s including the automobile assembly line, chemical plants, fishing industry, textile industry, railroads, steel industry, mines, and much more

Narrated by Art Gilmore and written by Saul Elkins, this 20-minute tribute to Industry (and industry-labor relations) shows the strides made during WWII, when ever-increasing production quotas were the order of the day. All aspects of industrialism and commerce are covered, from the lumber business to the fish-canning concerns of the East and West coasts. Filmed in Technicolor, the movie was made at the special request of Eric Johnston, the conservative president of the Motion Picture Association and proceeds from it benefited the Damon Runyan Memorial Fund.

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