Film and Video

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A curated selection of moving picture content from Hagley's Audiovisual Collections

    For additional selections of online film and video content, select from the following collections:
    Avon Products
    Chamber of Commerce of the United States
    Culley Family Cinecraft Productions Collection
    DuPont Company
    Hanford Engineering Works
    History of Kevlar oral history interviews
    MCI Communications Corporation
    National Automobile Dealers Association
    Sperry Corporation, UNIVAC Division
    Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection
    Taylor-Wharton Iron and Steel Company films
    Image: Cans of movie film ready for shipment. DuPont Company. Click to view

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Seaford Plant Start-Up
Edited with title cards introducing the men who designed and built the plant. Footage of office building, construction, temporary quarters, first smoke from the smokestack, driving in downtown Seaford, Delaware, slow moving shot entering the plant through the front gates. Next section dated December 12, 1939, workers in the factory, nylon being produced. Exterior plant.
A New World Through Chemistry
Includes several DuPont laboratories and plants showing the manufacturing of chemical products and household settings using the products, including Neoprene, Zelan, Nylon, Rayon and Lucite.
DuPont Womens Fashions: France
Setting is Chateau d where models wear fashions made from Qiana.
"The Inside Story of Tires" DuPont commercial
Film explains super strength tire made from nylon cords used in heavy duty trucks. Strength demonstration of nylon cord versus ordinary tire cord. Heat test using both samples also done. Animation of moisture issues included.
The DuPont Show of the Month : The Way Home
June Allyson hosts program including a play called 'The Way Home' starring Ronald Reagan. Reagan plays a teacher that must deal with bullies in his class. Dacron commercial precludes play. DuPont Carpet Nylon commercial at intermission. Lastly, a commercial for DuPont 420 Nylon.
DuPont commercial featuring Nylon plant in Seaford, Delaware
Editor of town newspaper 'The Leader', Wright Robinson, discusses how Seaford was once a small farming community but DuPont's Nylon plant, built in 1939, employed about 1200 people and was instrumental in the town expansion.
Seaford Plant Start-Up Footage
Edited with title cards introducing the men who designed and built the plant. Footage of office building, construction, temporary quarters, first smoke from the smokestack, driving in downtown Seaford, Delaware, slow moving shot entering the plant through the front gates. Next section dated December 12, 1939, workers in the factory, nylon being produced. Exterior plant.
'There's a World of Things We're Doing Something About' : DuPont Corporate Commercials : 1969-1975
13 DuPont commercials: 'Permacep Permeators'(:02), 'Plant Growth'(1:07), 'Noise'(2:12), 'Exhaust Manifold System'(3:17), 'Luminescence Biometer'(4:21), 'Diamond Knife'(5:25), 'Oven'(6:29), 'Metroliner'(7:34), 'Man-Made Fibers-Sheep'(8:37), 'Luminescence Biometer'(9:42), 'Alcoholism'(10:47), 'Mass Spectrometer'(11:54).