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Clip #: TFA-315G
Length: 3:35
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Saran powder is processed into fiber at the National Plastic Products Company plant in Odenton, Maryland and lumite into insect screen cloth at the Chicopee Manufacturing Corporation in Georgia.
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Clip #: MF-28C
Length: 1:47
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A visit to a nut cracking plant in Portland, Oregon in the mid 1950s
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Clip #: MF-26A-7
Length: 3:33
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Mining of diatomite, aka diatomaceous earth in Lompoc, CA
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Clip #: MF-31B-4
Length: 3:43
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
1950s film about the tuna fishing industry in San Diego, California.
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Clip #: TFA-244D
Length: 13:39
Year: 1922
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
The story of the sardine, from being caught off the coast of France / Portugal to being packed into cans.
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Clip #: TFA-390A
Length: 22:34
Year: 1958
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A Union Pacific Railroad film about growing and shipping produce in the U.S. in the mid-1950s.
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Clip #: MF-22Q
Length: 2:07
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Oyster shells are dredged up from the bay in Galveston, Texas and taken to Houston to be turned into chicken feed.
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Clip #: MF-29J
Length: 2:38
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Rubber making in a small Utah factory in the mid 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-302E
Length: 10:34
Year: 1951
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
The agriculture of Northwestern Mexico, including a modern cotton gin and henequen processing factory.
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Clip #: TFA-315I
Length: 2:50
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Candy, including Saf-T-Pops and Baby Ruth bars, is produced at the the Curtiss Candy Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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