INDUSTRY ON PARADE AMERICAN SEATING CO. GELATIN CAPSULE MANUFACTURE SANFORD FABRIC MILLS 19354a

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This is a 1950’s era, black and white movie which is a pictorial review of events in business and industry. It is produced each week by the National Association of Manufacturers. Building for the Ages. The film opens with a segment on the American Seating Company. The interior of a church; the altar is shown, :42. Craftsmen in a woodworking workshop are shown, 1:03. Craftsmen creating artwork for churches, 1:30. The workers of the American Seating Company carve works of art for churches, 1:29. Sculpture of the Last Supper, 1:41. The end of a pew is carved, 1:52. Man works on carving machine, 2:14. Master carvings are loaded onto a carving machine, 2:30. Carvings of Jesus are worked on, 2:55. Different seats are shown, 3:30. Inside of a church, 3:45. A Message from Industry to You, 3:54. Workers are shown in a factory, 4:10. Pill Taking Made Easy, 4:42, R.P. Scherer Corporation. Machine that makes cod liver oil capsules for medicine, 5:00. Capsules roll out of a machine on a mini-conveyer belt, 5:47. Women inspect pills in large trays, 6:00. Man puts pills into a box, 6:20. Pill bottle dispenser fills bottles with pills, 6:34. Suit-able for Summer, 7:00. Sanford, Inc. factory, 7:15, also known as Sanford Mills, in Sanford, Maine. Raw wool and mohair is combed through a machine, 7:56. Woman spins yard through a machine, 8:17. Fibers are spun through a series of metal rolls, 8:31. Spindles turn out yarn for clothing, 8:50. Looms run the length of the fabric, 9:30. Fabric goes to dye beds, 9:45. Cloth is dried, 10:05. Fabric gets pre-washed, 10:18. Fabric is pressed and then inspected, 10:40. Man looks at suits, 11:08. . A Message from Industry to You, 11:19, concerning inflation. Man holds up bill that says stop inflation - start saving, 11:30. Vanishing Craft, 11:52, manufacture of cross ties. A train passes by, 11:55. Men chop down trees, 12:20. Man chops a log into railroad cross ties, 12:55. The National Association of Manufacturers.
American Seating Inc. is a company specializing in the production of chairs and other seating, including seats for rail transport and public transportation, schools and churches. Founded in 1886 as the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company, the company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. The company gives its name to the American Seating rule, based on a lawsuit it participated in.
Various notable venues in the United States have featured seats produced by American Seating, including Radio City Music Hall and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Fenway Park in Boston, the now-demolished Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and the United States Senate chamber. The company discontinued manufacturing seats for stadiums, arenas and theatres in 2017.
Robert Pauli Scherer (1906-1960) was an American inventor who founded the RP Sherer Corporation.In 1933, Scherer invented the rotary die encapsulation process, revolutionizing the soft-gelatin encapsulation field. He founded the R. P. Scherer Corporation to commercialize his invention. R.P. Scherer was acquired by Cardinal Health, Inc. in 1998. and subsequently named Catalent Pharma Solutions.
In 1867, British-born Thomas Goodall established the Goodall Mills at Sanford, Maine after selling another mill in 1865 at Troy, New Hampshire which made woolen blankets contoured to fit horses. The company's textiles were known for brilliant and fast colors and found buyers worldwide. From 1880 to 1910, the mill town's population swelled from 2,700 to over 9,000, some living in houses built by the company and sold to workers at cost. In 1954, Burlington Mills, then the nation's largest textile firm, bought Sanford Mills. After moving the looms to its Southern plants, Burlington closed Sanford Mills-leaving 3,600 unemployed and 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) of empty mills.
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[@whosthefactory]

So awesome

[@benhall2146]

I eagerly await these videos! Thank you!

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

Wow, great vid! I could watch these all day. 👍

[@MarioMastar]

It's cool to see what lead to the technology and comforts we enjoy today. Like if we had an apocalypse where we had to start from scratch, this proves that we can rebuild from scratch again.

[@usmale4915]

Great video. Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing!

[@erickrobertson7089]

Nice to see the optimism in American manufacturing and craftsmanship shown in this short film. Kind of frightening to see exactly how close those fabric workers were to their machines. No guards there, better keep your clothing back for sure. I almost had to do a double take on the inflation segment. Some 45 cents less per dollar than just a few years ago! Banks making poor loans? Inflationary government spending? Wow... What can you say... Good luck with that.

[@dziban303]

You were saying?

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, it's nice to see the origin of a lot of things we take for granted now cause this is about the point where the US really started pushing towards industrialization unapologetically (meaning shutting up the luddites who were against new technology cause it ruined their monopoly on a system). The only thing it really fails at is the emphasis on doing this stuff for the sake of "profit" instead of for the sake of "ease of life" which is the biggest contribution to inflation, people wanting more than is feasible to produce. Still I do personally appreciate the focus in the attempt to improve things and not just waste materials for the sake of profit like making objects that we all know will be obsolete just because "right now rubber is abundant so lets make more tires for cars"

[@Daledavispratt]

Cleve Hudson...tougher than any modern day athlete.

[@erickrobertson7089]

And he did it all day long too. Fourteen cents per tie... That would buy him about 2 & 1/2 loaves of bread, about a gallon of gasoline, 2 quarts of milk or he could cut 3600 ties, bank it all and buy a car. Thats a lot of back breaking work. 25,000 ties buys him a house.

[@yowpyowp7374]

Cleve was a conservation officer, trapping and relocating animals in the Kentucky Woodlands National Wildlife Reserve. He and his family lived there and one of his sons died only three years ago. He died in 1956.

[@myleswhitney8830]

The Sanford mills are massive complexes. Mostly in good shape, I believe the boiler building is from the 1840s. Some business's occupy parts of the complex.

[@dziban303]

It's hilarious how terrified these industrialists were of anything resembling socialism or (gasp!) communism.

[@MarioMastar]

Yeah, propaganda and fear mongering was generally the best way to get luddites to do anything useful. It generally worked, but just as easily luddites are swayed by propaganda to invest their skills in business, they're swayed to give all their money to continue being slaves to their own system.

IOP 36 (1951)

[@michaelbracken5049]

I like weenies

[@robertbarrett777]

Unfortunately these jobs went overseas because of the greedy unions. The companies couldn’t sell their products overseas because they couldn’t afford paying the high prices.

[@michaelbracken5049]

Weenie are the funnest