Marathon Manufacturing Company: A Closer Look

Duration: 18:31

Year Published: c. 1980s

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: This promotional film, produced by Film Communications, highlights the work of the Houston-based Marathon Manufacturing Company, also known as Marathon LeTourneau Company. (Marathon purchased R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. in 1970.) The film gives an overview of the company’s three main sectors of production: marine construction, materials handling and metal products, and diversified industries like consumer products. In its survey, the film also features Marathon’s most popular products and inventions, including their array of jack-up oil rigs for offshore drilling, the electric wheel, and airplane batteries.