CELLULOSE -1978

For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) CELLULOSE: ZOOM IN ON PLANTS, TREES IN FOREST MOST OF WHICH CONTAIN CELLULOSE. A WAY HAS BEEN FOUND TO CONVERT CELLULOSE, ONE OF MOST COMMON SUBSTANCE ON EARTH INTO ALCOHOL, ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE. CELLULOSE IS WHAT ALL PLANTS ARE PRIMARILY MADE OF. 01:14:06 CU DECAYING TREE TRUNK ATTACKED BY COMMON ORGANISM CALLED JUNGLE ROT. THIS ORGANISM BREAKS DOWN CELLULOSE INTO SUGAR. 01:14:24 CU PAN THREE SMALL TRAYS WITH VARIOUS FORMS OF CELLULOSE BROKEN DOWN BY JUNGLE ROT IN LABORATORY RESULTS ARE DRAMATIC. CU SMALL GLASS BOWL OF WET MASH MADE FROM GARBAGE AND ANOTHER AFTER FUNGUS WORKED ON IT FOR A FEW HOURS. IT BECAME LIQUEFIED. 01:14:58 BLACK FEMALE TECHNICIAN AT GULF OIL CHEMICAL TAKES VIAL OF LIQUID SUGAR OUT OF VIBRATING MACHINE, AFTER IT WAS CONVERTED FROM CELLULOSE. THE REASON FOR THE INTEREST IS THAT SUGAR IS ONE STEP AWAY FROM ALCOHOL, WHICH IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PETROLEUM. 01:15:21 SCIENTISTS WORKING IN LAB TO PRODUCE ALCOHOL. SYNTHETICS MADE FROM PETROLEUM CAN ALSO BE MADE WITH ALCOHOL MORE CHEAPLY. 01:15:52 SCIENTIST PUTS SOURCE OF CELLULOSE, IN THIS CASE, TREATED MUNICIPAL GARBAGE, IN LARGE GLASS BEAKER, HE ADDS YEAST, ENZYME DERIVED FROM FUNGUS. TH E ENZYME CONVERTS CELLULOSE TO SUGAR, AT SAME TIME YEAST CONVERTS SUGAR INTO ALCOHOL. 01:16:40 MONTAGE MEN, WOMEN SCIENTISTS WORKING ON PROCESS IN LAB. 01:17:10 HARD HAT WORKERS SHOVEL INDUSTRIAL WASTE AT PAPER MILL, ONTO CONVEY WHICH TAKES IT UP TO LARGE VAT OF LIQUID, DROPS IT IN. THIS WASTE IS A SOURCE OF CELLULOSE WHICH GOES THROUGH PROCESS AT PLANT, COMES OUT ALCOHOL ON THE OTHER END.