Home Movie: 004983 (silent)

Description: On the shores of San Francisco Bay in Newark, the Morton Salt Company processes salt that is derived from both evaporative processes in the Bay and elsewhere in California, and also underground mining operations. According to the book Salt in California (State of California, Division of Mines, 1959), San Bernardino County is the only region where rock salt was mined in California. With scenes of Black labor on the job in mining and processing operations, and white collar workers standing around.

Salt in California: dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/saltincalifornia00verprich/saltincalifornia00verprich.pdf (accessed 6/25/2026)

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Subjects: 1960s, Labor, Extractive industries, Social classes, Manufacturing, Food

Tags: professional men gathered around office desk; administration; administrators; white collar men; boss reviewing papers; parking lots; hard hats; surveying work sites; white collar workers visiting salt mine operations; train cars; rural landscapes; new housing developments; factories; shaft elevator operators; cable elevators; workers entering elevators; salt mines; bulldozer hauling salt; San Francisco Bay; conveyor belts of salt; red Jeep; welding; drilling; heavy machinery; metal lunch boxes; labor; workers in salt mines; headlamps; salt inspection; facility inspections; monitor dials; African American workers; Black workers; Black labor; sewing salt bags; Morton Salt boxes and bags; Morton Salt products; salt processing plant; Black worker smiles for camera; workers of color; salt packaging facility; mountain of salt; sewing bags of Morton salt; warehouses;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1966

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Newark, California; San Bernardino County, California

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Ektachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 405