Industry on Parade Unknown

Series: Industry on Parade

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Arthur Lodge Productions

Color: B&W

Description: An episode of Industry on Parade. The episode number is uncertain, though it is most likely one of the following: 204, 205, 206, or 210. Less likely possible episode numbers include 171 and 209.

Complete Record: Up To Date Swimming Holes! is a film segment within an episode of Industry on Parade. The episode number is uncertain, though it is most likely one of the following: 204, 205, 206, or 210. Less likely possible episode numbers include 171 and 209.

Despite being named after a segment, this web page aims to describe the full episode (installment number unknown).

A description found in TV Guide (Chicago, December 18, 1954) reads:

Viewers see: (1) The Wood Technology Laboratory of furniture design; (2) Felt Company, Albany, N.Y.; (3) Bonanza, Utah, where Gilsonite is mined; (4) Sylvan Pools, Inc., Doylestown, Pa.

TV Guide often printed segment descriptions in the incorrect order.

A Future In Furniture!

Footage from the first segment "A Future In Furniture!" is  reused in IOP 426. The 00:02:45 segment can be viewed here.

The Wood Technology Laboratory of furniture design; not 426, but segment reused there

https://www.oddballfilms.com/node/13520

Felt-Makers With Feeling!

The first half of this segment can be viewed here and the second half here.

A special motion picture, filmed at Albany Felt Co.'s plant in Albany, N. Y., for the "Industry; on Parade;" television series, has been seen on 250 stations by an estimated 70,000,000 viewers. The film featured the outstanding employee and plant-town relations at the Albany plant

Paper industry v.37 1955-1956 - July 1955 - vol 37 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018012156&seq=235&q1=%22Industry+on+Parade%22

"Bonanza, Utah, where Gilsonite is mined"

No title for this segment. It is likely held by Oddball.

Products made from Gilsonite are usually associated with asphalt, waterproofing, or drilling applications. Gilsonite is also known as, and/or associated with, the following:

  • asphaltite or asphaltum
  • "drilling mud" or drilling fluid
  • "oil sands"
  • uintahite
  • japan black
  • gilsonite sealer
  • asphalt paint or asphalt lacquer
  • bitumen, black bitumen paint, bituminous waterproofing
  • an ingredient in printer's ink or rosin (and as such it is featured in the IOP #53 segment "Ink, Inc!")
  • etc. etc. etc.

https://dissolve.com/video/1950s-Gilsonite-mined-Bonanza-royalty-free-stock-video-footage/001-D34-71-074

Up To Date Swimming Holes!

A 00:02:17 segment can be viewed here.

https://archive.org/details/1954iop-intelligencer (Sept 29 1954)

https://dissolve.com/video/1950s-Sylvan-Pool-Company-begins-construction-backyard-royalty-free-stock-video-footage/001-D34-71-077

https://dissolve.com/video/1950s-swimming-pool-completed-construction-quickly-royalty-free-stock-video-footage/001-D34-71-078

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