Trident Submarine Hull Cleaner
Trident Submarine Hull Cleaner
Wheelabrator demonstrating a ship hull cleaner on full size mockup in Elk Grove Village, IL at Barnes & Reinecke plant. "I am submitting (1) 16mm original reversal and (2) 1" video master of that same film. Opens with Wheelbrator logo. Cut to EXT shot of the submarine hull cleaner being towed inot position next to the full-size mockup hull to be cleaned. The unit come to the cam and passes by, showing its full configuration. Worker with phone line watches it from the side. Line is connected to unit's cab. Cut to driver's position, with unique computer control panel. Operator climbs into the cab and begins to move the cleaning head. Cut to continuing scene as arm is extended. Tilt D thearm to the machine. Sky shot of the cleaning head, coming down. The head is rotated to various angles. CU same. The ckeaning head is rimmed with the steel shot picked up and held by the electromagnets. Cut to another view of the tilting head on the arm. Cut to wheels being turned, to show how the equipment can be crabbed and crawled into tight positions. Control box, with worker opening the door to show the INT components. He makes adjustments. Full view of the entire machine. Ground level shot of the side, showing the anchors extended to stabilize the base of the unit. CU of one stabilizer being retracted. Swing to front wheel, then to cab. Side view of the unit moving-- crabbing-- inot position for cleaning. The arm is pulled away from the hull mockup and lifted. LS as the unit is extended; the cab is now seenon its boom arm, and the cleaning head is retracted form the hull. Cam pans over to cleaned strip of hull, with paint and rust removed. The head is lowered, and put into position to clean from base to top. Cam zooms slowly to the had against the hull. The head is now moving up the side, leaving a clean swath below. LS, then MLS as the head is now halfway up the hull side. Pull back to wide shot of entire operation. There is no pollution from this cleaning, as there would be from conventional sandblasting; the metal pellets of the abrasive wheel are picked up by the electric magnets, and dust, scale, paint, etc are vacuumed into waste hoppers for removal. The unit is now at the top of the mockup. CU and pull back. Cut to another LS and tilt U, with head at top. The operator is now seen in relation to the cleaning head. Zoom in on operator and pull back to show the head, now cleaning in a downward path. Zoom into the cleaned section above the head. Cut to ground shot and tilt U the snorkel boom arms. Move in to ECU the head, and see the motor underneath, driving the blast wheel. LS as the head is halfway down. Zoom in to CU the head cleaning. LS and slow zoom in to the cab and cleaning arm as it completed the pass. The ehad is repositioned and lowered. MCU the wheels, and the stabilizers being lifted to move the unit. The unit now moves away from the mockup. Side view of the unit as it crabs inot position to clean the smaller radius hull section. CU of that operation. Zoom in and lull back. Wide shot of operation in cab and cleaning unit at the top of the hull. CU cleaned path. MS as the unit is folded for transportation and pull back to see it driven off. WFO logo, end." Frink has (FFV-8) ONLY a VHS copy, and very little ancillary material. This was shot as a documentary, unscripted, and never completed.