INDUSTRY ON PARADE NICKEL MINING EAGLE PENCIL CO. INDUSTRIAL BROWNHOIST CRANES 19344b

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: One of a series of films made by the National Association of Manufacturers, this black & white film “Industry on Parade“ contains segments about nickel mining at Sudbury, Ontraio, manufacturing Eagle lead pencils and Industrial Brownhoist cranes. The film ends with a profile of four retirees from the General Petroleum Corporation. This was made circa the mid 1950s. Opening credits: Industry on Parade: The Need for Nickel! (:07-:36). Sudbury Basin of Ontario. A mining outfit hangs above a man. Men dressed get their lights. The miners get into an elevator shaft. A diamond drilling job is under way. To mine nickel, dynamite is inserted and then detonated. After the blast, the ore and rock is put into mining cars. Rocks are broken down and then placed in the cars and brought back to the surface. Nickel rock goes down a conveyor belt. Miners exit the ele