Industry On Parade 1952. USA made, Switches, Hallmark cards, Stainless steel and copper, popcorn.

[@uTube486]

I lived for these shows on TV when a boy in the 1950's

[@fromthesidelines]

"INDUSTRY ON PARADE" was syndicated {and mostly seen on Saturday or Sunday mornings} from 1950 through 1965 (at least).

[@RetiredSchoolCook]

😃Thank you , good interesting information video . I buy Hallmark cards , nice to see how they were made long ago . What a great way to buy ready made popcorn , away from home . 🍿🍿🥰

[@MoviecraftInc]

You are so welcome!

[@lisagerman2111]

Oh, man! A decade later, these were the reels played @ 6:00 Saturday mornings, between the stations coming back online & the start of cartoons :) I have fond memories of being the first up, having control over the (4 available) TV channels before my brother put on Johnny Rocket lol

[@lisagerman2111]

Johnny Quest (not 'Rocket', 😊 )

[@MoviecraftInc]

Very cool! I too remember when there were only 4 channels. Far different from today.

[@gcfifthgear]

I used to see this on KSD-TV (now KSDK) in St. Louis on Sunday mornings when I was growing up

[@rightwired]

OMG I popped popcorn at he movie theater for 4 years....must have made tens of thousand of gallons! Even sold some to Siskel and Ebert! They lived nearby.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Nothing like popcorn and a movie.

[@scratchdog2216]

Hallmark had a large distribution warehouse at Enfield, CT for many years.

[@psychedelicpython]

Industry On Parade is the original How It’s Made.

[@MoviecraftInc]

You are right about that!

[@MrStevos]

I'm an old guy living in Chicago, not only in 50's but all thru the 60's into the 70's... You could walk down one of 100's of streets in the many commercial area's of the city & see these small businesses. There would literally be one after another every 50 feet or so. You could look in on a summer day as all the doors & windows were open, fans spinning on the ceiling.... There would be rows of people each in front of some sort of different machine, each cutting, drilling, bending, or whatever - one item, pass it on, or drop it in a bucket, then the next one, & the next, all day long.

[@MoviecraftInc]

From another old guy from Chicago, I remember that too!

[@brianlinke1856]

The US has become 70% dependent on consumer spending alone to drive its economy. No longer employed in full-time jobs , w/ benefits, workers get caught between declining purchasing power and soring health care costs. Many workers additionally suffer under a global 'wage race to the bottom' as corporations seek the low cost supplier (wherever they may be off shore).

[@johncantwell8216]

@@brianlinke1856 So now healthcare has to be "hypermonetized" to make up for the loss of manufacturing revenue. That's why the costs, particularly insurance premiums, are going up at a pace that will be unsustainable for the average wage earner.

[@Madness832]

Son of a switch!

[@modtwentyeight]

To bad we don't make anything anymore.

[@psychedelicpython]

After my husband retired from the Air Force he worked for a company called Itronix in Washington State. He worked for them for many years. One evening he came home from work and told me they were laying off all but 13 people and sending the work to China. 300 people were laid off including my husband.

[@MoviecraftInc]

Thanks for sharing. That never should have happened in this country.

[@gregsmith7428]

Too bad there's little or no industry in America anymore. Is the Navy dependent on the Chicoms for their switches?

[@brianlinke1856]

What a time. No globalization. No jettisoned workers. Workers did not face a downward income spiral, moving from well paid jobs in industry to low pay, service sector ones ...hamburger flipping jobs. Many believe success lies not in good jobs and hard work but in get-rich schemes. Not an economy run on debt and speculation.