Centron successfully competed with large companies on both coasts, and was widely known for its high quality films, coming in on time and under budget.
The company kept afloat for decades making many technical instructions, cooking and sewing demonstrations, teacher aides and safety reels.
[3] One of Centon's most prolific scriptwriters was Margaret (Trudy) Carlile Travis, and Linda K. (Sam) Haskins also wrote and directed, two of the relatively few women working in the sponsored film industry.
[1][4][2] This simple profile of a short handicapped man with his tractor in downtown Lawrence[5] was produced on a budget of $12,000 and eventually became one of the most popular classroom films of all time, selling an impressive 2,300 prints.
[6] Some of their films were satirized on the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, including Cheating,[7] Why Study Industrial Arts?