(12 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City, Missouri – 11 June 2025
1. Wide view of flag production line
2. Close up of flag stripes and stars being assembled
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Young, President, Allied Flags:
“Our facility being here in Kansas City, we’re in the heart of the country. And it’s really cool to see flags coming from the very heart of the country.”
4. Wide view of flag production line
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Young, President, Allied Flags:
“You know, being a manufacturer in Kansas City, it’s incredible because we’re supporting the local economy, local workers that are right here in our neighborhoods.”
6. Person operating machine to cut the red stripes of the flag
7. Close up of red stripes on rollers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Young, President, Allied Flags:
“When it comes to making a thousand flags a day, it’s about the precision that the line is laid out and it’s the skill of the people. And it’s incredible to see, as you see up there, they make it look easy.”
9. Close up of machine sewing stripes together
10. Worker cutting flag to length
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyler Young, President, Allied Flags:
“They are proud of what they make, and it’s the most American thing that you can make.”
12. View of flag production room
13. Worker added brass grommets to completed flags
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Skinner, Vice President of Operations, Allied Flags:
“Every portion of the flag is manufactured in the U.S. From the cotton, through the metal in the grommets, the brass in the grommets. All of that is manufactured the U.S.”
15. Close up of machine installing brass grommets
16. Close up of worker joining the stars and stripes together
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Skinner, Vice President of Operations, Allied Flags:
“On a ship out in the sea that’s a Navy ship, where you’re seeing from an army base. Those are all flags that most likely we made because we do probably close to 90 percent of those type of government contract flags that are U.S. national base flags we produce.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Kansas City, Missouri – 11 June 2025
18. United States flag flying outside North Kansas City, Missouri City Hall
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City, Missouri – 11 June 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Skinner, Vice President of Operations, Allied Flags:
“There are flags that are gonna be raised up at the Senate building and flown, a lot of times for one day, then they’ll come down and be sold as flags that, hey, these flags were flown in front of the U.S. Senate and we manufacture those flags. And there’s a lot pride in that too, you know?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Kansas City, Missouri – 11 June 2025
20. Close up of United States flag flying outside North Kansas City, Missouri City Hall
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City, Missouri – 11 June 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Skinner, Vice President of Operations, Allied Flags:
“And I really value the relationships I’ve developed with these folks and their stories and places where they may have come from to then come here and be able to have what is for them a career and set themselves up and their families up for the future. And you know, it’s been a really wonderful situation.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Kansas City, Missouri – 11 June 2025
22. Close up of United States flag flying outside North Kansas City, Missouri City Hall
STORYLINE:
Allied Flags, a subdivision of Allied Products located in Kansas City, Missouri, takes pride in producing United States flags in the heart of the county.
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