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Yes, that film really brings back memories.  I remember all of those tasks.....and the cavernous building.  I'm afraid the only thing I have left of that era is an old clipboard that used to hang in one of father's offices..... and lots of memories. I recall it was possible to get one's finger "zapped" in the moisture tester if you were brave or silly enough to do as your father urged. I remember the time a feral cat had a litter of kittens in a nail barrel in the back of the elevator.  My mother felt sorry for them and put a bit of cloth under them on the nails....the mother cat returned sometime in the night and moved all the kittens somewhere unknown. I recall my father moving the cars with the "peavy-type" of lever too, and being surprised that it was possible. At a later location we all went out one night to watch an elevator burn to the ground.  I was told that people were keen to scrounge undamaged chute boards from the wreck as the years of grain flow had polished the internal surfaces of the planks to a wonderful natural sheen....great for making picture frames etc. My mother always said the old single cylinder engine under the office said, "Fit-boom-boom-boom"... much to our amusement.....it also meant a farmer had just finished his delivery.
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