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Productivity: Key to Plenty Pt 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221185-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 20:32:03

TC Ends: 20:43:38

Duration: 00:11:35

Productivity: Key to Plenty Part 2 of 2 Continued. Man removes yoke from oxen, woman cooks over open fire in fireplace. Sewing clothes beside quilt on bed, cranking water up from well. Vegetable cellar & family in 19th Century clothes in log house at dinner. Flies on food. 20:33:30 Charts & diagrams, man w/o shirt holding board w/ money, spinning effect. Graph of productivity as steam machinery & coal production develop. Telephones arrive. Gasoline engines arrive. 20:34:48 Comparison of horse, man & machine power. Productivity increase shown. Man holding much more money on board as output doubles. 20:35:41 Open pit mine, coal cars out of mine & interior of coal mining w/ machines (good) 20:36:05 Oil derricks & pumping oil into tanks. Hyroelectric power with concrete dam. Generators, lines. Large drop forge in steel mill. Automobile press forming roof of car. Other very large machinery being manufactured. Turning propellers, automatic drilling machines & assembling. Automobile assembly line. 20:37:41 Lathes, boring machines, CU turning screws etc. Other machines at work. Large industrial factory & many machines in CU; ext of large plant. Business men (investors). 20:38:31 Laboratory, engineers, managers, punch cards at time clock; workers arriving or leaving. 20:39:00 Charts showing animal power, man power & machine power charted. Man w/ more money on board. 20:40:27 POV of street scene & pedestrians, large store, new apartment building, house wife & kids eating. School & teaching. Men leisure golfing. Girls playing field ? Main street. 20:41:09 Graphs show improvement since 1900. 20:41:47 Horse team, tractor, picking cotton by hand & machine. Digging ditches by hand & w/ ditching machine. Street cars, railroad steam engine & diesel train; airplane landing. Large dam w/ car across & many large generators. Men & women work at machines in shops & offices. Dress designer, draftsman, CU locomotive engineer. Street scenes. The End Economics; Capitalism; Propaganda; Raw Materials; Natural Resources; Consumption, Productivity, Better life; Post-WWII; Post-war, 1940s Americana; 1950s Americana;

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