“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 1956 episode (298) begins with Dr. Selman Waksman and his team studying the antibiotic streptomycin at a Rutgers University laboratory. Streptomycin is produced in mass quantities in large vats (00:47) at a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Waksman and an architect review plans for the new Institute of Microbiology building, which is completed and continues microbiology research (01:30). Waksman and another person use an electron microscope (02:02). The next segment shows a woman returning bottles to her local supermarket (03:13). At the Miller Hydro Company in Bainbridge, GA (03:22), employees assemble bottle washers (03:45). Bottles move along conveyer belts into a washer (04:18) then go through rinsing and soaking stages in the cleaning process. Worn crankshafts sit outside the American Crankshaft Company in Charlotte, NC (04:57). Men recondition crankshafts at the plant, cleaning the crankshafts. Men use electric welding arcs submerged in flux to recondition the crankshafts (05:48). In the final step, reconditioned shafts are balanced (06:36). In Charlottesville, VA, two women have tea in a parlor while modeling a homemade dress. Women take a sewing class offered by the Singer Corporation (08:18). At the Singer Educational Department in New York City (08:45), women are trained as supervisors; they will then train Singer instructors. The supervisors learn about dressmaking and study patterns. A supervisor trains women who will teach teenagers at a sewing center. A volunteer leads a 4H sewing class (10:21). Little girls use toy sewing machines to make doll clothes (11:00).
