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30 CLASS 3— Industry and Useful Arts
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for their employees. The modern banana plantation is hewn out of the native jungle. For planting, a piece of banana root stock is used. Within three months the banana tree has grown to husky proportions. At ten months it is old enough to bear fruit, which is harvested when the tree is fifteen months old. The method of harvesting is extremely interesting. A special banana train carries the fruit to the seaport where the bananas are loaded aboard a steamer. The picture closes with human interest scenes showing children on the playground eating bananas and Boy Scouts on a hike roasting bananas over an open fire. A film that is both instructive and entertaining.
1 Reel
Courtesy of GLOBE GRAIN & MILLING COMPANY 1503-2
MAN VS. MACHINERY
A newly married bride bakes biscuits. They arc so hard that her husband can't eat them. At the office that morning he is instructed to gather data concerning the manufacture of flour. He goes to a large flour mill and asks one of the officials for information. He is told about the various methods of harvesting and grinding wheat which have been used since biblical times. These methods are interesting and picturesque, but they lack the speed and the sanitary features of modern scientific milling. In order to get a clear idea of how flour is made today, the visitor is taken on a tour of the mill.
All wheat is carefully graded and any that doesn't measure up to high standards is rejected. Samples of flour are made in a miniature mill and are tested by a skilled chemist. The accepted wheat is delivered in carloads and is elevated to the top floor of the mill. Here it is freed from weeds, foreign grains, metal particles and other impurities by a series of ingenious machines. Then it is washed thoroughly. In producing flour the wheat passes through fifty grinding machines, each of which grinds it a little finer than the preceding one. While hubby is at the mill, wifie has learned how to bake biscuits and she has a fine batch ready for him when he gets home. Nothing is more interesting to people than the processes used for making things. This educational film is especially entertaining, since it shows the manufacture of that most important ingre.dient from which the "stafif of life" is made.
2 Reels
Courtesy of RICHFIELD OIL COMPANY 1504-3
PROGRESS OF AVIATION
Tracing the history of aviation from the first flights with crude gliders to the modern, luxurious airliner, this film presents a clear picture of the progress which has been made in flying during the past quarter of a century. Remarkable views are shown of Wilbur and Orville Wright flying their first successful airplane at Le Mans, France, in 1908. Their plane weighed 620 pounds and was driven by a 25 horsepower motor. The first sustained flight of 2.17 miles was covered in 106 seconds. Among the other pioneer airmen who appear in this unusual film are Glenn R.
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