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Preview Cassette 220739 For United Fund of St. Joseph County, IN., Calhoun Cartwright, PR. This is a fund raising film, and shows many civic charitable operations.
The Wheelabrator Abrasive Wheel
90 second 16mm sound color animation showing the wheel and abrasive action Animation by Frink; art by Norman Navan art dept. This art, verified by still photos Frink shot in a Wheelabrator cabinet, and enhanced in printing from high contrast transparencies, changed the thinking of Wheelabrator engineers concerning the shot pattern produced by the abrasive wheel. No one but Frink has been known to shoot pictures inside a blast cabinet when the equipment was operating..."Fools rush in, etc."
Wheelabrator Ram-Roll Cabinet
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #371373 Film opens with Wheelabrator logo; fade in on long shot Caterpillar assembly line as cast metal engine blocks, uncleaned, are rotating in cages; cut to closer angles as blocks are fed into the cages; pan the Wheelabrator blast cleaning cabinet; cut to engine blocks dropping into hopper after cleaning. Engine blocks coming down conveyer to be fed into the cages; follow cages as they are moved down the line; and brought into position for insertion in the cages. Shot of two men loading engine blocks onto the conveyer line. CU equipment ramming engine blocks into the cages. Different angles on this. CU of Wheelabrator blast cabinet as cleaned engine castings are dropped into totebox. Side view of cleanign cabinet as operator opens the door and camera moves inside the red cabinet--where the actual blast cleaning takes place. The blast openings are seen, and the engine blocks rotating and moving through the cleaning cabinet. (the shiny gray metal slots are the openings through which the metal shot is forced out to blast the casting). 400' 16mm color silent print on gray plastic Goldberg 400' reel in brown Plio-Magic plast 400' mailer. Frink (FFV-3) has original footage, ancillary mayterials. See also FFS-AA1285 and FFS-AA1296 for additional footage of this operation.
White-Tailed Deer
Magnificent buck deer on forested ridge in deep snow, blue sky behind him 17:00:23 button bucks on ridge in snow 17:00:46 buck having just shed antlers, see scab on pedicle, close 17:02:14 doe on ridge in deep snow 17:02:48 buck on ridge, turns back to look 17:03:38 button buck and buck with antlers just shed 17:05:52 buck on ridge in deep snow, super alert 17:07:48 buck with antlers just shed 17:08:19 magnificent buck on ridge 17:08:43 doe chewing cud
Alki-therm
ON PREVIEW TAPE 991537 AA Sales/docmentary on manufacure and use of O'Brien Paint Corp's Alki-Therm paint. 5 min 16mm sound color film fade in on the O'Brien logo and main titles. Dissolve from paint labels to crystals. Dissolve to mixing paint, uses of paint-- trailers, homes, cars, airplanes, huge storage tank. Dissolve to O'Brien truck pulling up to the front of the O'Brein plant and pan the plant exterior. Tilt up a high chimney. Down to rail tank car and the back of a truck. Front door of the plant. A scientist checks paint in a laboratory with a montage of testing equipment. Football touchdown; men study papers. Old fashioned paint label, 1906. 1920, titanium vial is added.Cassein paints. 1933, thermolyzation process. 1941, rubberized paint is added. 1954, Alkyd is added. Pan bottles of Alkyds. Cut to Herb True, the narrator, surrounded by colored flasks. Cut to a crystal of alkyd, as Herb shows them. Cut to a technician adjusting equipment in a laboratory. Cut to a Veriac transformer being adjusted. Cut to glassware in the lab as chemicals burn and bubble in them. Pipette. A handful of dirt is spilled, becomes the atom bomb, and back to the crystals of alkyds. O'Brein perfect wall paint label. Lab experiments with beakers, flasks, colors changing, men studying the results, rejecting attempts until-- time passes as the calendar pages shift-- dealer shakes his head, more rejections, cut to red paint rollers as colors are ground, lab tests of fineness, vats of paint, mixing of green, blue, gray, more rejections... more lab test equipment; more calendars, more rejections, book closed... reopened for study. Try thermolyzation, cut to the unti and art of tanks, showing the coils heated and cooled, in animated sequence. Cartoon character pints the way. Back to the thermolyzation tanks, reopneing the notebooks and back to the lab. Final "approved" stampon the last test. Alki-Therm label. Paint can stop motion to front. Tiltes describe the paint. Dissolve to room interior, a bedroom, with a woman fixing her hair at a mirror. Dissolve to professional painter with a brush, then a roller. Viscosity test in a lab. Lab stirring. Painter covering dark wall with light paint. Pan the "hiding charts" to show how well paint covers the black background. Woman paints but the phone rings so she stops painting, resuming after the call has ended. White spotting panel with two surfaces, porous and non-porous, and the paint covers the two surfaces smoothly. Painter in office finishes his work and leaves while the office workers continue to work with windows closed and no paint fumes. Lab with chemist adjusting glassware. Cut to a baby in crib putting jam on wallpaper; her mother wipes it off with a sponge. Standard laboratory scrubbing machine shows how paint holds up to scrubbing. Woman puts nail into a wall to hang a picture up. No problem! Scientist bends a piece of metal to show the cracking of paints. Cut to display of colors against the wall as a color stylist talks to a customer. The intermixes are shown. Cut to home furnishings magazines, samples od carpets and fabrics and paint swatches. CU of the stylist. In the plant, drawers of different color pigments are opened. Scientist at eyepiece matches colors. FI on plant interior and exterior of three plants. Adjustment of lab equipment. Mixing paints in the plant. Various valves and tanks, pan as the operator adjusts a flow of chemicals. Drum rollers. Color changes on mixing rollers. Colored paint flows into can, finished cans of paint come down the conveyor belt. Warehouse stacks of paint for shipment and back to the O'Brien truck. Dissolve to store front with O'Brien neon sign. Display of magazine ads, dealer displays, color cards, film projector, newspaper ads and paint labels. Summary montage repeats earlier scenes briefly... cut to President J.J. Crowley, speaking into camera. Paint can, O'Brien logo, mixing paint colors in vats. The End. (EDIT NOTE FROM FRINK: THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL FILMS I MADE AND IN MANY WAYS IT IS TYPICAL OF THE INDUSTRIAL FILM OF THAT ERA ALTHOUGH I DID MANAGE TO AVOID THE POINTLESS DANCING GIRL SEQUENCE THAT WAS MANDATORY IN MANY FILMS OF THAT PERIOD. "ALKI-THERM" IS A BIT OVERBLOWN. THE WORLD DOES NOT REALLY REVOLVE AROUND HOUSE-PAINT, AS IN THE POMPOUS OPENING NARRATOR WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE, AND IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS IMPERATIVE FOR THE OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY TO BE ON SCREEN, WHETHER THEY WERE CONVINCING ACTORS OR NOT. ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING SEQUENCES HERE ON THE MANUFACTURE AND TESTING OF PAINT IN THE INDUSTRIAL AMERICA OF THAT ERA.
CTS Institutional Film
Institutional film for CTS-- a cut-down version of films FFS-AA1028 and FFS-AA1029, cutting out most manufacturing, history and background of the variable resistor. Fade in on the CTS logo and dissolve to the titles. This is an edited version of "manufacturing Millions of Variable Resistors", with emphasis on the management structure rather than design and manufacturing of the resistor. There are no scenes in this film that are not in FFS-AA1028 and FFS-AA1029.
Bactine Tv
Development and use of Bactine, a Miles Laboratories home antiseptic product.
Moose Krause For Gilbert's Clo
Moose Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame, speaking for Gilberty's Clothing Store.
Bendix Passenger Car Power Bra
for Bendix Aviation, Auto division. 200 prints distributed
Judd Drugs Tv
TV spot, retail drugstore chain
Millions of Variable Resistors
The first of two documentary films regarding the history, development, manufacture and use of variable resistors. Interesting, typical manufacture of precision electronic parts, emphasizing skilled human workers. Fade in on the CTS corporate logo. Dissolve to an aerial shot of the plant and ECU of a variable resistor. Superimpose the titles. Show an old telephone made by Chicago Telephone Supply (CTS) when it was originally in Chicago (they moved to Elkhart and it is there today; a map shows their move to Elkhart). Display of old tube radio parts made by CTS. Display of products by year of manufacture. World globe shows how CTS has grown. Display of resistors. Aerial plant. Enter front door. A mailman talks to the receptionist. CU of a resistor. Animated display shows how a variable resistor works. Cut to a 1950's radio, a 1950 TV set, display of CTS variable resistors today. Hand shows a resistor wirewound element, bent to fit the circular case; center terminal is fastened to a shaft and rotates. Turning the shaft varies the current flow to the end terminal. ECU of the finished unit. Show wirewound element replaced by carbon element unit. Carbon element is shown. CU of switch attached to the resistor. Display of various switches. Show a triple unit. John Best, son of the founder and, in 1950, the CEO of CTS, enters the plant. Board of directors meeting. Cut to the executive staff. 2-shot of engineers in research department. Model is taken to the lab for testing. Ovens filled with heated units; freezer filled with frost-covered unit. Their resistance is checked on an ohm meter. Banks of units being tested electronically. Rows of switches on test. Banks of wires. Lamp filaments glowing intermittently in test bank. Resistance leaks determined. Humidity factors are considered. Special high voltage resistors tested at 5,000 volts. Drafting tables as drawings are studied. ECU of hands working with progressive die stamping. Display of tools in CTS tool and die department... "one of the best in the country". A die is built. ECU of the completed part. A machinist bores holes in a die block and fills in metal. Optical comparator checks drawing. Heat treatment with flames. Die is immersed in cold fluid. Surface grinder smooths and parallels the surface. Punch section is shaped. Hand filling. Mating the parts in ECU. Other sections placed. CU of the finished die, male and female halves. Die is placed in the press. Dies are tested, test run in a high speed press. Show some of the hundreds of dies on racks. One is dollied out of the department.Maintenance department. Gene Ulley at work. Progressive die stamping. Office shot, sales engineer department. Group of salesmen, pan office. CU of briefcase as specs are taken on the road. Sales engineer talks to customer (Herb True) in his office. Two shot sales engineer with specifications engineer preparing data. Overhead shot samples being made up. Samples are checked by an inspector. Quality control. Samples are placed in tubes of air-tube delivery system to sales engineer office. Engineer checks the sample. Cost is prepared by accountants. Letter is dictated. Engineer gives them final check and sends the samples to the customer. Customer opens the package and checks the parts. Orders are screened by Howard Turner, VP. He opens a blueprint, then gives papers to a secretary. She delivers them to a specifications engineer. Sorting papers. Invoices are prepared. Invoice department. Workman brings a lift truck with coils of copper metal. Pan of big office. Copper piles being labeled for a "trial run". CU of a resistor. People are emphasized in a montage focusing on faces. Personnel office door opens; lady asks for information. She fills out blank in personnel office and is interviewed. References checked with other employees. Filing cabinets of folders. On job training. Operators teach a new employee to operate a machine. She works at the assembly line. LS of the workers on the production line. Cu of a worker carefully checking his job. Hand with micrometer and gauge, quality control. Classroom lecture for training during the working hours. Group of men learning. CU of faces of the workers. Two shot of women talking. Ls of the production line. Pan office. Typewriters. Pre-computer office equipment. early punch card computer. The weekly paycheck. CU of faces, hands, machines, parts. CU of a variable resistor. The End.
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) One day old fawn bedded, camouflage hiding it 02:42:19 one day deer bedded, close 02:44:02 same, close up of eye, zoom out 02:44:25 doe nursing fawn 02:45:38 doe nursing fawn, fawn walks between doe's legs 02:46:02 two fawns nursing 02:46:17 doe licks anus to stimulate bowels, while fawn nurses 02:49:25 fawns nurse, viewed from rear 02:54:42 fawns nurse from rear - zoom in to close up 02:52:03 doe washes fawns face 02:52:18 doe washes fawns face 02:52:48 fawn walks by, doe washes
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) bucks antler, almost full grown, in velvet 02:53:36 Month-old fawns walk in woods, browse 02:56:36 Month-old fawns bedded under fallen tree, zoom in 02:57:22 fawn runs to nurse 02:57:41 fawn nursing 02:58:47 doe nursing triplets (1 month old) 02:59:55 Buck antler almost full grown, flies on nose 03:04:39 Buck with velvet peeling from antlers
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) Buck with antlers growing, walking through dense green foliage 03:06:24 Buck with antlers in velvet, backlit 03:07:20 Buck with antlers growing, browsing, velvet close up at 03:08:16
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) Huge white-tailed buck backlit, drooling, trots and turns back towards camera 03:10:05 Huge buck, pose, CU, drooling 03:10:49 Huge buck and doe in breeding season 03:11:04 Huge buck tracking doe in rutting season 03:11:25 Huge buck backlit, pose, uses antler to pull down branch 03:13:13 Huge buck looks back 03:14:12 Doe bedded in woodland, gets up 03:15:21 doe walks into open - close up 03:16:31 Perfect buck with 10 point antlers, running behind trees
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) 10 point perfect buck rubs antlers on tree 03:20:56 doe close up 03:21:59 10 point perfect buck in woodland 03:25:07 10 point perfect buck in woodland feeding, browsing uphill, looking alert
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) Buck runs and jumps high 03:27:46 Buck runs with tail up 03:28:18 Buck in woodland - faces camera, goes up hilltop 03:29:09 buck with injured right front leg 03:29:19 Buck runs up hill 03:29:23 Buck in woodland 03:30:35 Buck & yellow maple leaves, feeding on leaves
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 1) Texas bucks - tremendous fight as one chases the other through low brush on hilltop 03:32:30 Buck silhouetted against sunset 03:33:05 Buck on scrape - low light
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 2) Two fights between two huge bucks in forest - one slowly approaches the other, they face off and clash antlers
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 2) Bucks fight in water - shake off water
White-Tailed Deer
(Tape 2) Young buck feeds in brook - nice autumn color 03:39:10 Huge buck bedded - close 03:39:54 Huge buck in woodland 03:40:18 Huge buck in woodland 03:41:05 buck walks in and drinks from little creek 03:42:08 Buck's aggressive run at doe not in picture - close
Millions Of Variable Resistors
Two documentary/sales films showing the history, development, manufacture and use of variable resistors, used in the manufacture of color TV sets and other electronic equipment. Focus in on CTS corporate seal. Dissolve to TV screen, distorted image. Superimpose titles and credits. Dissolve to rolls of copper metal. Dissolve to CU of a variable resistor in a hand. Dissolve to an aerial shot of the plant. Stop motion as variable resistor components are shown. A workman inspects the metal with a micrometer. Round rod is checked with a ring gauge. A hex rod is checked with a micrometer. Rockwell hardness tester checks for hardness. Return to 15 piece parts of the variable resistor. CU of the carbon element. A sign saying "KEEP OUT" hides the secret manufacturing of the carbon element. Sorting of the resistors for tolerance. Sorted resisitors stacked on rods. A sheet of black plastic is sheared, blanked on die cutting machine. Punch press operator checks for defectives. Two end terminals are shown. The terminals are formed from metal on high speed presses. CU of this operation. Inspector checks parts. Gauges, degreasing and plating in vats. Completed terminals. Checking solderability. Rivets are made on header machines. Micrometer checks. A can of rivets is emptied. Ground plate is shown and its strip manufacture on progressive dies in high speed presses. Automatic plating machines. CU of the finished parts. Threaded bushing or thimble fastens the unit to a TV set. High speed six spindle auto indexing auto screw machines turn out these parts. CU of the finished part falling off of the cutter. Bushings are checked with instruments. Finished bushing. The center connector is blanked from metal alloy, on dial feed punch press. ECU of the parts being gauged. Plating machine gives special finish. Noise-free contact surface. Checked for solderability. Finished parts are placed on a conveyor belt. CU of a metal shop plate to keep the unit from rotating. Blanked, formed, inspected and degreased. Plastic plate is formed. Metal contact arm is fixed. Blanked and formed from special alloy, progressive formation shown. Checking with gauges and special instruments. Bins of the parts. The shaft is made on Brown and Sharp automatic screw machine. Woman workers check the parts. Secondary operations. Flat milling of the shaft ends, and micrometer check. The autoplating bath. Finished parts are checked with gauges. Bins of shafts are placed on a conveyor. A C washer is blanked from aluminum. Finished parts. Plated cover is formed from strip in progressive die machine. Finished parts fall into a bin. CU of cleaning baths for plating. CU of beakers as a chemist analyzes the baths. Finished cover sent to assembly department. Switches at the end of the resistor are assembled in production lines. Bases and terminals are assembled on bumping jigs. Pivots are staked. Finger assemble the switch. Cams and springs are assembled and staked. Switch CU with cover. Hands assemble the units. CU of hands preparing die of dial feed stamping machines with customer code. Piece parts for sub assembly. Hands assemble the parts and the camera moves down the line to a finished part. Shaft and stop plate staking on a turntable. Finished parts. Operator carries tote box of parts. Final assembly line of many women in a row. Group leader inspects the order. He puts parts on the line. First is assembly of the base, elements and terminals. Bumper jog bumps the three parts tightly. Visual checking by women. Hands perform the manufacture. Thimble roll over machine operator. Ground plates and bushing are assembled. Riveted assemblies are fastened to bushing and ground plate. Center connector is inserted. Fingers fly. Shaft, drive arm, contact arm are assembled. Lubrication. C washer locks the assembled parts. Rows of finished parts on te lie and hands and machines complete the unit. Inspection department checks each resistor against the order, electronically and mechanically. Finished parts are packed in egg-crate cartons. Box is closed. Box is conveyed to warehouse. Stacks of parts are piled. Boxes are sealed by hand stapler, with ID data packed in each box. Montage repeats the intricate machinery of the manufacturing process. Nice rhythm established here with hands, parts, machines in motion. No narration this sequence, music only. Combination of skilled humans and intricate machinery. Delivery man loads batch of cartons on truck which pulls away from the CTS plant, aerial view of the plant, and The End.
Wood Ducks Fighting
Master 2015, Tape 2 MS 2 Male wood ducks (Aix sponsa) fighting in water. One chases the other away.
Canada Geese and goslings swimming
Master 2015, Tape 2 MS Canada goose (Branta canadensis) with 3 day old goslings swimming behind her. MS pair of Canada geese swimming; the goslings swim behind their mother. MS goslings swimming between the two adult geese.