INDUSTRY ON PARADE 1960 SMOKE DETECTORS HAT DESIGN BALL BEARINGS 65624a

This black and white film is one of a 1950-1960 television series Industry on Parade, produced by the National Association of Manufacturers; an Arthur Lodge Productions Inc. There are four individual segments, preceded by an advertisement for investing money. Shown are photos of people doing business at banks. No Medal for Walter. Walter works on a smoke stack detector at the Keystone Steel and Wire Company in Peoria. He blows smoke from a cigarette at the device. Students put together a high-speed blower based on his design. The photoelectric cell monitors the smoke in the stack, turning the blower on if there is too much. The General Electric smoke meter drops as the smoke pours out of the plant chimney stack. Walter doesn’t get a medal for just doing his job to help make the community safer (1:30-3:13). Shaping the Chapeau! A Manhattan millinery store has multiple displays of ladies’ hats. A customer tries a cloche hat on. Women work on hats resting on mannequin heads, attaching flower trims. A rack of hats for sale is panned. The workroom of a hat maker is shown. A designer molds fabric around a mannequin head, creating a new design. Synthetic straw is sewn in circles to create a hat body. It is then steamed and put over a wooden style block and tied with string as part of the blocking process. The excess straw is trimmed off. The folds are steamed to keep their new shape. A group of women insert linings and decorative trims. Finished hats are shown (3:14-7:05). In the Race! Miniature Precision Bearings Inc. manufactures small bearings. A stick of races for the smallest bearings is shown. The manufacturing process is shown. Races are polished using a watch makers loupe to check for quality. Tiny bearings are installed in the outer race. Once the balls are in place, the inner face is fixed into place. The finished products are quality checked under a microscope. Tweezers lay down a line of bearings from largest to smallest against a ruler (7:06-10:02). A Business is Born! The St. James Episcopal Church had a church fair at which stuffed animals were sold. Due to their success, the two women, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Palmer, went into business together. The patterns are hand cut out in the fabric and sewn. Women wearing pearls and dresses stuff the animals with kapok. Button eyes are stamped out on a machine. The two women look at a barn to turn it into a workshop (10:04-12:23).