LANDFILL USE OF INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CORP. TD-9 BULL CLAM SHOVEL TRACTOR GARBAGE 66234

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“From Trash to Treasure” is produced by International Harvester Company in the 1960s. It’s a promotional film highlighting the International drop bull clam shovel tractor (TD-9, TD-14, TD-18) and the International drop four-in-one skid shovel tractor. The International Harvester complies with the sanitary landfill method of disposal as outlined by the United States Public Health Service. This method focuses on both distribution and compaction of water. The landfills can then be converted to new living areas, parks, airports, and school sites.

The film opens with tractors dumping trash in a landfill (0:07), juxtaposed with vacationers enjoying a warm day at the pool (0:18). Scenes of an unsanitary landfill follow, with burning trash and decaying animals (0:54), again juxtaposed with green lawns and housing complexes. A sign reads “A Future City Park” in Evanston, Illinois, indicating that the site is being developed for recreational purposes (1:30).

The film focuses on various International Harvester tractors at work. A tractor-drawn scraper scrapes the land, a crawler tractor compacts a pile of refuse (1:51). Bulldozers distribute and compact refuse. A front end loader distributes refuse, and a tractor carries the bucket filled with refuse overhead and dumps it in to a collection truck (3:19). Viewers see workers operating machinery in a shop (3:53), followed by a group of men in suits standing around a tractor. A worker demonstrates its functions (4:27).

The film cuts to a close up of the bucket on the International drop bull clam shovel tractor (4:56), which is built for larger full time work. It is used for digging, pushing, and carrying. Then the film cuts back to the International drop four-in-one skid shovel tractor (5:07), which is built for smaller community use on sanitary landfill operations, as well as part-time use on other activities, such as filling in trenches. The four-in-one fills a trench and loads a truck.

Both tractors are again seen working up a ramp (6:06). The International TD-18A is at work at a landfill in Tampa, Florida, building sanitary landfills (6:37). It creates a ramp, working about 30 degrees on the upward slope, dumping refuse on the other side. A collection truck arrives at the site to drop its load (7:43). Various scenes of tractors at work follow (8:13).

A bull clam shovel demonstrates the work process. It spreads the refuse and then digs, loads, and carries the dirt once (9:48). It creates compaction with the next load in its bucket, and then two tractors work up the side of a ramp. Another collection truck arrives at the site (10:17). More scenes follow of the shovels working over the dirt (10:54), and the bull clam shovel bucket working to compact the landfill (11:13).

The film cuts to a wide shot of kids at play on a basketball court (11:29), then cuts back to bull clam shovel tractors. The film then focuses on the versatile International drop four-in-one skid shovel tractors (11:58). A four-in-one builds a ramp at a 30 degree slope. The shovel compacts the landfill and spreads the previous load with the full weight of the bucket of the next load (13:07).

A tractor operates in the snow (13:22). A farmer sits atop the tractor, wearing a flannel coat and hat, demonstrating the gasoline starting system. The driver starts on gasoline, allowing the tractor to run as it warms up, and then switches to diesel and begins to drive. The tractor operates in deep frost conditions, using the blade to spread refuse (14:02). This is followed by a light compaction run. The shovel picks up the next level of cover dirt, and spreads it with a full bucket for full compaction, dropping the dirt. Then the shovel smooths out the surface area with the compaction plate on the bottom of the bucket. The surface is smoothed by back dragging the big, broad surface of the outside of the clam in order to create a tabletop smooth finished surface (14:51).

The film then intercuts between scenes at the landfill, and various shots of happy suburban life: kids sliding down a slide (15:42), a car driving down a paved street (16:09), a recreation center or school (16:19), families picnicking (16:24), families playing at a crowded public pool (16:30), and children playing on a baseball diamond (16:34). The film closes by juxtaposing these suburban scenes of with the International drop bull clam shovel tractor working up a ramp (16:49) and the International drop four-in-one skid shovel tractor working over a pile of refuse (16:56).

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