This color educational film is about Copper and to promote Kennecott's Bingham Mine. This is circa 1965.
Title cards: A Kennecott Film Presentation, narrated by Burgess Meredith (:07-:19).
City shots. Bridges. New York City at dawn. This is the story of copper's place in the world. Tugboats in the waters near NYC. The narrator explains how copper is so very important (:20-2:33). Little boys and girls play hopscotch and baseball in the streets (2:34-2:50). Title credits written on the street: Kennecott Copper Corporation presents Copper! (2:51-3:31). Children continue to play. Copper is everywhere, even in your pocket! Its properties are discussed. Inherent to corrosion. One of the best conductors of heat (3:32-6:04). Copper has use in commerce. Niagara falls shots with a rainbow. A generator is being built with copper, 24,000 lbs of copper wire. Lots of rare Niagara Falls footage. After building it, it is now time to turn the generator on. 2 children show up as our narrator wants us to look at things through the eyes of children (6:05-9:44). The standard of conductivity is copper. Copper wires carry our electricity all around the country. Shots of electric wires and a sunset. NYC shots. Lots of copper wire runs under NYC. How copper wire is wound is explained and shown (9:45-12:41). Under the streets, copper wired power flows. Night shots of NYC. Children at play. More things that can be done with copper and copper piping. Light enough for children to carry (12:42-15:11). Bronze curtain wall is for exteriors. Copper roofing is long lasting. Salt Lake City, NYC, buildings have copper. Most homes have lots of copper (15:12-17:55). Just where does all of this copper come from? The same two children look over at Kennecott's Bingham Mine. The Bingham Canyon Mine, southwest of Salt Lake City, has been one of the world's largest copper producers for more than 100 years. The mine, owned and operated by Kennecott Utah Copper (a division of Rio Tinto Group), is a large open pit in a porphyry copper deposit. An explosion at the mine shows how they mine for it. Digging in the mine footage. The copper is released and purified by fire. It is cast into bars (17:56-21:37). Getting copper ready for the world is shown and explained. 80% of Kennecott's product is sold to independent dealers. What is created by this copper is shown (21:38-23:01). A locomotive shop where the motors of trains are being installed with copper windings. Lots of train and motor footage. Children operate the train motors (23:02-24:21). A shipyard. Within the ship, tons of copper. A band plays, chairs are set, a ship is about to be launched. The children are shooed away to launch the ship. The ship is placed into water for its first time ever
(24:22-27:18). Trains move across the tracks very fast (27:19-28:02). Wherever heat is to be transferred, copper is there. Beer is made in copper. A camel wanders the desert with the children. They run across salt water in the ocean and then a desalination plant, which uses copper. Copper resists corrosion (28:03-30:16). A child looks for a clue and finds an experimental copper car. He looks at the exterior and interior and drives in it with a sexy woman (30:17-32:39). Telephones use miles and miles of copper wire. So do space communications. Shots of NYC skyline from the river. children sing where all the copper is found (32:40-34:10). Research for finding more copper. Snow top mountains. Miners at work . Kennecott's laboratory (34:11-36:31). End credits (36:32-37:10).
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