Airport Runway Cleaning
Airport Runway Cleaning
Preview cassette # 213135 Four engined airplane lands, camera focused on wheels as its 16 tires hit the runway. Overhead long shot of airport runways as another 4-engine plane lands at 100 miles per hour, tires smoking. Montage of several planes landing. Main titles super on a long shot of the criss-crossing runways. Cut to group of men inspecting runway concrete and rubber. Animation of cutaway drawing of Wheelabrator steel shot blast method. Long shot O'Hare International airport, Chicago, tire-blackened runway in foreground. Cut to group inspecting the original test model Wheelabrator Blastrac Environmental airport runway cleaner in action at O'Hare. CU hand with knife scratches through the rubber buildup to clear concrete. Zoom in on clean concrete as hand rubs over it. Cut to machine removing rubber, leaving clear concrete behind. Overhead long shot of runways with the Blastrac unit cleaning white strip down the middle. Cut to Weir Cook Indianapolis airport, truck in foreground. Long shot cleaning unit cleaning strip. Pavement testing car, with test equipment trailing, passes camera. Close-up operator making test photos. Group inspects the machine in action. Blast unit circles and comes to camera. Cut to full sized custom-built trailer and tractor environmental blasting unit. Cut to night shot, unit blasting when traffic is lightest. Nighttime cleaning of runway 32 Right at O'Hare, w/closeups cleaned areas. CU operator's monitoring view of the cleaning action. (9 tons of rubber removed from 32Right and 22Right at O'Hare.) Long shot, trailer and tractor, Environmental Runway Conditioning equipment. Camera circles the equipment in action, with groups of men inspecting. Pan busload of men inspecting. Moving camera shows cleaned runway. Insert shot high speed camera showing tire hitting runway. B-27 lands. Closing montage summary, titles supered over night shot. Planes land at night. End credits. 400' color sound film on gray plastic Goldberg reel in blue Plio-Magic 400' mailer, labeled. Frink (FFV2) has A & B rolls, track, orig overs, script, ancillary materials available.