Lou Marcelle credited as playing...
Narrator
- [first lines]
- Narrator: The village blacksmith belongs to a past time: the ring of his hammer on the anvil, the sparks from his forge, all evoke a nostalgic picture of a time that used to be. A time when a three-alarm fire was answered with the clanging bells of the old hook-and-ladder wagons - a time when the big brewery wagons rolled through the city, drawn by giant Percherons - and the horse-drawn streetcar was a novel innovation in transportation.
- Narrator: The making of a horseshoe is not as easy as it seems. No two horses' hooves are alike; they vary not only because of natural, physical differences, but because different types of horses take different kinds of shoes.
- [last lines]
- Narrator: But all things must come to an end - even a busy day such as George Garfield's. For with their re-appearance in our national life, blacksmiths will once again resume their ancient and honored place in the American scene.