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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “The Chemical Engineer“ is a 1964 career guidance film made by The American Institute of Chemical Engineers. This film was intended to convince high school students to study chemical engineering in college. It shows you what a day in the life of a chemical engineer looks like and all of the good you could be doing. Many of the scenes are in laboratories and chemical plants. The film was written and directed by Justin Herman and narrated by Peter Roberts. Engineers in suits discuss a chemistry problem. Three men watch a film on a projector. More engineers discuss the parameters for designing a space station (1:22). Titles “The American Institute of Chemical Engineers Presents The Chemical Engineer.” A hand pours liquid into beakers (2:40). He stirs one beaker and pulls out a glob of synthetic rubber. Two men in hard hats study a blue print in front of a chemical plant. Close ups of moving parts inside the plant. A man in a bow tie observes a wall of gauges and dials while taking notes (4:54). An alarm sounds while a red light blinks. Large round tanks sit on stilts. Zoom of the chemical plant with smoke stack. Close up of tanks that reads “…Denatured Alcohol Storage Tank…” “Dry Acetone 15,036 Gals.” “100% Sulfuric Acid...” “Caustic Soda”… (5:59). Overlapping pipes with pressure gauges with signs that read “Oxygen” and “Liquid Nitrogen.” Two me stand in front of a chemical plant that provides high pressure oxygen (6:23). A man pours a bag of chemical mulch into a bucket on a tractor. Wheat grows in abundance in arid dirt. Two engineers work in a technical lab where they work on developing an energy source for spacecrafts using Magnetohydrodynamics, also known as MHD (6:50). One of them reaches into a glovebox. A rocket explodes out of water. An explosion displaces earth (7:49). Two men pull rubber form a mold. Man kicks a soccer ball. A 16mm film projector is threaded. Synthetic stockings (8:50). Pharmaceutical drugs bottles are filled. Bottles zoom by on a conveyor belt. Scenes of people demonstrating products made from chemicals. Scenes of chemical engineers hard at work. A teenager mixes chemical in lab at school (9:37). He pours the mixture into the engine of a roadster or hot rod. Exhaust pipe (10:07). An African American boy works on electrical circuits. A teenage girl measures synthetic food. A boy builds a model plane from a kit. He flies a remote-control airplane that is towing a glider (11:04). He performs science experiments and works puzzles including a crossword (11:45). He shows his coach a football play on a chalkboard. Men work in a college lab. They are in a math class then working on an adding machine (13:00). The student investigates reaction kinetics in the lab. He enters data into a punch card based computer. A teacher talks about a plasma jets and lasers. Caution sticker on a small test or instructional nuclear reactor indicating the presence of uranium or plutonium (15:26). Student manipulates radioactive material inside a chamber. A young man is interviewed for a job in a power plant. Children play on a playground. Tractors build a chemical plant. An engineer creates a strip of film from liquid (19:11). Engineers ask questions. Another engineer presents his new product. A woman transcribes a letter. A woman in goggles designs a pilot plant (20:45). A porotype machine demonstrates their product. Men study a miniature mockup of a pilot plant (21:29). Slow pan of a wall of temperature control valves and gauges. The plant produces rolls of film. Two men walk down a tarmac where small planes and helicopters are preparing to take off. They climb into a Cessna 172 Skyhawk airplane, tail # N-5399W (23:50). Montage of previous scenes. View of a very long pipe on stilts. 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
