This 1974 color industrial film from ASARCO -- the American Smelting and Refining Company -- uses documentary footage, staged historical scenes, and song to tout the company’s diverse holdings while attempting to counter environmentalist critics (TRT 30:26). Pan across the streets of Old Tucson, a facsimile of an old western town (0:07). An early Ford Model T type 1900’s automobile drives head-on at the camera (0:36). Townsfolk marvel at the car from every angle (0:48). A woman carries an oil lamp down a darkened staircase, then turns on an electric ceiling lamp (1:19). Black and white montage of women at work. Washing, ironing, vacuuming, operating a switchboard  (1:45). Men on an auto assembly line (2:01). The green treetops of a Colorado mountain range (2:07). Titles overlaid (30:26). A smoky forest. Cowboys walk from silhouette into darkness (2:49). An illustration of Daniel Gugenheim and his brothers. Scenic Colorado views (3:36). Meyer Guggenheim. POV entering a mine (4:05). Silhouettes at the mine entrance (4:16). Wide angle POV walking through a watery mine (4:21). Miners at work (4:40). A telegram: “You have a bonanza” (4:56). An elderly man in a union suit dances jubilantly (4:52). Zoom into a mine on a dry riverbed. The Guggenheims. Crash zoom on the ASARCO logo (5:22). Early automobiles (5:46). A woman at a Western Electric telephone receiver (5:50). Montage: Teddy Roosevelt, the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, a slaughterhouse. Miners climb into a descending bucket. A Ford motorcar (6:36). A newspaper vendor. Headline: “Germany Surrenders” (6:59). Sign: “No Men Wanted.” Depression era food lines. Worn out shoes (7:18). A Nazi Swastika explodes into newspaper headlines. FDR speaks (7:26). A scale miniature model of an ASARCO Zinc plant. Early 1950’s computers (7:34). A model of a Glover, Missouri lead smelter. Rockets taking off (7:52). Vials of elemental metals twirl suspended in mid-air against a rocky backdrop (8:07). A prospector panning in the river (8:49). A helicopter follows a truck. Hikers and men exploring on horseback (9:43). Men on walkie talkies (10:32). A chemist analyses a swirling sample in a laboratory (11:00). An Arizona copper mine. A core sample shows deposits (11:11). Inside the mine with hardhats, headlamps, and headphones (11:54). Drilling in Galena Idaho’s silver mine (12:21). The Mission open pit copper mine in Arizona. Dynamite blasts and earthmovers (12:42). A Lakehurst, New Jersey ilmenite mine (14:03). A map suggests that relatively little of the US has been mined (14:16). A Zinc mine in Leadville, Colorado (15:15). The Silver Bell Mine in Arizona (15:23). ASARCO mines in Mexico dating back to 1899 (15:39). A mining car rolls along on tracks (16:06). Peruvian mining in the Andes. The Cuajone mine in Moquegua Region (16:18). A kangaroo. The Mount Isa Mines in Australia (16:42). IBM tape memory computers fill an office (17:12). Asbestos mining in Canada (17:17). Montage of refineries at work. Molten ore pours into steaming refinery vats. Sheets and ingots of refined metal on display (17:36). Bulbous white sulphur recovery plants. Hot lava (19:28). Wiring and recycled scrap metal. The word “Research” and an abstract animated interlude (20:33). Central Research Laboratories. Analyzing samples (21:32). A copper ingot from continuous casting. A vertical shaft furnace (22:11). A microscope (22:32). An experimental yellow electric car (22:47). A boy washes a white Lincoln. Its components flash in a montage showing the ASARCO metals used (23:15). Three ASARCO men in sunglasses walk towards the camera. They loot a house of all its metallic objects, including a television and a can of Coors (24:01). An atomic submarine. Car motors and assembly lines. Apollo 11 footage (25:04). Time-lapse skies and peaceful rivers. Montage of trees and lens flare (26:00). Train tracks vanish into a horizon blurred by heat distortion. (27:30). Abstract urban animation and continued montage (29:01). The Lincoln drives through Old Tucson. End credits (29:40). Directed by Julius Potocany.  Asarco is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona. It is a subsidiary of Grupo México since 1999. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment!  See something interesting?  Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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