# COPPER KENNECOTT COPPER COMPANY INDUSTRIAL FILM BINGHAM MINE UTAH MD78024

This color educational film is about Copper and to promote Kennecott's Bingham Mine. This is circa 1970s. No copyright on file and research couldn't find the date. 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…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/md-78024-copper-vwr)
- 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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