# In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have

Part 2 of 4 of "In Our Hands". From the How We Live in America Series. Anti-communist, pro-capitalist film. Titles on leader: 3730A American Foundation Long version in four parts. Synopsis from study guide inside can: Tom and Midge start the day like millions of other families. Midge gets the morning paper while Tom shaves. Then Midge starts to fry eggs in the frying pan. The story of how that frying pan was made is presented, step by step. Men with great cranes and digging equipment get the iron ore from the Mesabi range. It is transported by truck, train and boat. Powerful machines dig and haul coal. Coal is reduced to coke. The molten metal is poured, rolled and pressed, and finally the shining frying pan is produced. All this activity is possible because men have economic freedom. They are free to: Work and produce Buy and sell Save and invest in more and better tools. The same freedoms have guided the farmer who provided the eggs used for breakfast. The steps in egg production are reviewed on the screen. The customer is also free to buy or not to buy; to select this article or another. For that reason the retailer puts different kinds and sizes of pans on his counter. The aim of production must be to please the customer, for what the customer pays covers all costs of production, including payment of taxes to the government. Mrs. America, in buying a drying pan, has hired all the workers and tools which were engaged in making and selling that pan. In a scene at the…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1950
- By: Wilding Picture Productions, Inc., Jack Tilles, James Prindle
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/201383_In_Our_Hands_What_We_Have)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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