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13169_10689_scrap_material_industry2

1950s
B&W

Industry on Parade Compilation #30. Educational film about the industries that salvage, reuse and recycle materials. Internal view of Weyerhaeuser plant, Longview, Washington; man works at machine the presses sawdust into "presto logs;" CU of logs emerging; moving down conveyors; stacking for shipping, two workers. Man walks between large metal tanks containing pine oils, Crosby Chemicals, Louisiana. Exterior shot of stacked metal barrels. Worker unbinds stacks of newspaper, pushes into recycling conveyor; man inspects machines creating pulp for paper; CUs of pulp moving through machines; shows finished product "box board' rolling through machine. External shot of tanker truck being filled; sign on truck "Better Fishing, Better Roads, Sulphite Road Binder." Truck starts off; shown spraying liquid tank contents onto gravel road.