XD8195 The Dupont Story 1950 Docu-drama about Dupont Chemical Company

1950 production titled “The DuPont Story” produced by the DuPont Company and the Apex Film Corporation.

The feature length film includes a dramatization of the company’s history with Hollywood actors and a voiceover narrative spanning the founding of the company into the 1940s. The film begins and ends with documentary footage summarizing the company’s activities as they were in 1950. DuPont executives Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. and Crawford Greenwalt appear in the documentary segments that includes footage of manufacturing facilities and offices in Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. The film premiered in Wilmington, Delaware and was shown to DuPont employees and the general public in city movie houses. The opening of the film included a week long engagement at the Ritz Theater in March 1951. Tickets for the show were distributed for free at the DuPont Building in downtown Wilmington.

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