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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