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Sweet Ship! | ===Sweet Ship!=== | ||
What important food is sprayed into ships holds? | |||
Processing sugar cane and shipping it on Matson Line. Hilo Sugar Plantation, HI. | Processing sugar cane and shipping it on Matson Line. Hilo Sugar Plantation, HI. | ||
To the Victor! | ===To the Victor!=== | ||
How did the custom of awarding trophies originate? | |||
Manf. trophies; sports awards. L.G. Balfour Co., Attleboro, MA. | Manf. trophies; sports awards. L.G. Balfour Co., Attleboro, MA. | ||
Portable Offices! | ===Portable Offices!=== | ||
Whose turning out offices that are virtually portable? | |||
Manf. portable offices. Arnot-Jamestown, Division of Aetna Steel Products Corp., Jamestown, NY. | Manf. portable offices. Arnot-Jamestown, Division of Aetna Steel Products Corp., Jamestown, NY. | ||
Yachting Ashore! | ===Yachting Ashore!=== | ||
What's the purpose of this unique land job? | |||
Manf. mobile homes called "land yachts." Travel; tourism. Saginaw Manf. Co., Saginaw, MI. Box 9 | Manf. mobile homes called "land yachts." Travel; tourism. Saginaw Manf. Co., Saginaw, MI. Box 9 | ||
Revision as of 21:09, 16 May 2022
IOP Ep 200 is a short film from 1954.
Episode 200 of the "Industry on Parade" show, a short television program that aired in the United States from 1950–1960.
Overview
Ep. 200 1954 August 14
Sweet Ship!
What important food is sprayed into ships holds?
Processing sugar cane and shipping it on Matson Line. Hilo Sugar Plantation, HI.
To the Victor!
How did the custom of awarding trophies originate?
Manf. trophies; sports awards. L.G. Balfour Co., Attleboro, MA.
Portable Offices!
Whose turning out offices that are virtually portable?
Manf. portable offices. Arnot-Jamestown, Division of Aetna Steel Products Corp., Jamestown, NY.
Yachting Ashore!
What's the purpose of this unique land job?
Manf. mobile homes called "land yachts." Travel; tourism. Saginaw Manf. Co., Saginaw, MI. Box 9
More Details
Episode 200 of the "Industry on Parade" show, a short television program that aired in the United States from 1950–1960. It was produced by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The show depicts complicated industrial processes that transform raw materials into finished products available for consumption by Americans. Its episodes generally contain several sections, each of which looks at a different aspect of some larger topic within industry.
The companies featured in this episode include:
The C&H Sugar Company and its plantations on Hawaii are shown at 1:00, with a focus on the shipment of unrefined sugar to the mainland, and competition against foreign sugar. The Hilo Sugar Plantation is also shown.
At 4:40, a segment looks at the L.G. Balfour Co. in Massachusetts which makes trophies. Founded as the L.G. Balfour Company, Balfour today is an operating unit of Commemorative Brands, Inc. Lead is used to make castings of trophy statues. At 7:30 the Vandenburg Trophy is shown, awarded to top military pilots every year.
At 7:50 the show looks at a maker of office cubicles or partitions, which are made by the Arnot-Jamestown Division of Aetna Steel Products in Jamestown, New York. Compared to modern partitions these are very solid and heavy -- made of steel!
At 10:30, "A Message from Industry to You" presents a lesson about the importance of public opinion and faith in self government, with images of citizens voting.
At 11:00 the film shows a land yacht or recreational vehicle. These mobile homes, known as the Safari, are built by Saginaw Manufacturing which used to built pulleys. At 12:30, a home that is being moved is shown as the Safari drives past. Both are "mobile homes" but only the Safari provides a truly alternative lifestyle.
The show was nationally syndicated, and local stations could show it free of charge—which they did, in a wide range of different time slots. Footage was also distributed widely among American schools and community organizations. Ratings information is scarce but existing local reports suggest that the show was quite popular.
The show was reportedly conceived by Johnny Johnstone, the director of television and radio at NAM. NAM collaborated with NBC in producing the show from 1950–1953.[4] (NBC producer Arthur Lodge continued to work with the show until it ended in 1960.) In 1958, the show changed formats, recycling and rearranging old footage to provide broader overviews of different industries. In total, Industry on Parade aired more than 500 episodes during its 10 years in existence.
Each Industry on Parade episode was 13.5 minutes long and, for most of the series, contained three to four stories examining some aspect of American manufacturing and business. Towards the end of the 1950s, episodes were arranged thematically, featuring a single type of product, industry, or American consumer. Most episodes also included "public service announcements" placed between story segments or at the end of the episodes to promote capitalism, the American way, and the rewards of a free economy and society. NAM provided the weekly episodes to one television station in each market throughout the country, at no charge, for broadcast, usually in non-prime time slots.