Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 21 minutes ago

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This 16mm film tells this history of the du Pont family and of the DuPont company. The technicolor movie features reenactments to portray the different du Pont’s and the major events in the family’s and company’s history, starting from the DuPont Companies inception with making gunpowder.

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