Electronics at Work

Electronics at Work is a short film released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

01:00:25:05 Man in blue shirt with loosened necktie and pencil in mouth typing at a typewriter; wife in red coat passes through room with groceries Hi darling!

01:00:35:13 CU page in typewriter with titled typed out Relationship Between the Electrical Industry and Social Progress.

01:00:41:01 VS wife takes off red coat and talks to husband working at typewriter:

Say how long does it take to write a PhD thesis? 
That s a good question, why do you ask? 
Because I want to know how long it will be before I can tell everybody that my husband is now a Professor. 

01:00:58:09 Man with loosened tie leaning back in his chair at typewrite beside bookshelf looking defeated says:

I am just not getting anywhere that s all 

01:01:06:08 Man sitting at desk with books and a typewriter on it reads to his wife sitting across from him:

First imagine yourself looking at a sunset. Most of the time we think of it as just a beautiful sight. But scientifically there is something more. 

01:01:20:18 Setting sun behind clouds dissolves to tree limbs blowing in a storm. Audio track over transition:

In can be peaceful one moment; and the next it can be as wild and un-harnessed as a raging storm. 

01:01:44:23 Man in flannel warms his hand by cabin s fireplace.

01:01:55:02 CU water pours into watermill.

01:02:02:27 Spinning windmill.

01:02:09:10 Beautiful shot of yellow grain covering hillside rippling in the wind.

01:02:15:26 CU farmer cutting wheat with scythe; pans up to farmer wiping sweat from his face.

01:02:26:06 Farmer driving in green John Deere tractor harvesting wheat.

01:02:32:27 Farmer loading bales of hay on to conveyor belt.

01:02:39:03 Man in factory watches giant cylindrical power sander, sanding metals; VS factory shots.

01:02:47:03 CU drill bit drilling into metal while water cools drill bit.

01:02:53:09 CU red floury powder being processed by machine with spinning corkscrew mechanism.

01:02:57:04 CU automatic loom in factory being supervised by older woman with grayish white hair.

01:03:00:18 Long squared beam passing through cooling waterfall in factory.

01:03:07:01 VS reenactment of Michael Faraday doing experiments with electricity in his laboratory.

01:03:38:14 Cu man with loosened tie looking puzzled:

Where do I go from here? The trouble is the electrical industry has become so complex that I am not sure myself how it all fits together. 

01:04:02:10 Man at desk with typewriter looks deeply into the eyes of his wife seated beside him. Wife says to her husband while nervously flipping through pages of a book:

Will you be gone long? 

Husband now hold the back of his wife s head I hope not

When are you leaving? 
I guess tomorrow  

The wife kisses her husband I ll miss you.

01:04:49:05 Housewife seated at desk in apron while a man in a suit speaks with her until a little boy interrupts their conversation and asks Sociology, what s that? The man responds Well you see Johnny, in sociology you study groups of people and their function in relation to all people. Boy responds in confusion Huh!? Man pats boy on the back and the man and woman laugh. Housewife says I ll explain it to you later dear. But if you all will excuse me now Ray will be home any minute.

01:05:11:25 Two men enter frame from right and stop in front of piano in living room:

Certainly was a wonderful dinner. 
Yeah Peggy is a good cook. Much to good for me  while patting his stomach.  Say, what s the matter with you ve lost a little weight.  

01:06:28:28 CU man pointing out on large illustration different energy sources and methods of conversion and transportation of energy supply: hydroelectricity (dam), oil field with wells, coal mine, power plant, energy transportation by power lines, factory, private homes, farms.

01:007:01:05 High angle of coal mine.

01:07:03:21 VS inside coal mine.

01:07:06:14 CU claw-like mechanism breaking up coal in mine.

01:07:14:03 VS coal being transported on conveyor belts.

01:08:29:13 Man turns gears to generate power to light a bulb as another man looks on. Man exclaims: Hey that s a lot f work just to light that little bulb.

01:08:39:27 Exterior of yellow Westinghouse power station.

01:08:45:06 VS men working with giant Westinghouse turbine powered generators in power station.

01:09:08:00 VS men repairing the blades of giant turbine rotary.

01:09:44:10 VS men inside of giant generator.

01:10:30:25 MS man hard at work typing on typewriter while a cigarette burns in an ashtray in the corner of the frame.

01:10:53:23 VS Giant power transformers.

01:11:50:28 VS workers for Westinghouse building a giant power transformer several stories high.

01:12:13:05 CU man opens Westinghouse oil circuit breaker.

01:12:18:29 Man pulls large lever of large compressed air circuit breakers.

01:12:23:13 Man lifts large disconnecting switch to interrupt electricity transmission in power plant.

01:12:30:00 CU two electrical coils; VS power plant equipment.

01:12:36:16 Worker sculpting on spinning wheel an insulator for a high voltage transformer.

01:14:01:13 VS men working factory; man in factory turns wheel to aim large electric drill; CU electric drill, drilling into round metal disk; VS CU large drills.

01:14:59:21 VS oil drill in oil field.

01:15:09:04 Lumberjack with chainsaw cuts down giant old growth tree; tree falls away from camera as lumberjack in helmet watches.

01:15:17:00 VS huge log rotating and while saw strips it of its bark.

01:15:33:19 Enormous pile of wood with conveyor belt pulling more logs to the top at a paper mill. VS inside paper mill processing wood.

01:16:37:19 CU control panel inside cockpit of 1950s to 1960s United Airlines plane.

01:16:39:09 United Airlines plane taking off runway.

01:17:02:11 Pan down Rockefeller Center building in New York City.

01:17:35:24 Neon sign: You can be sure if it s Westinghouse Laundromats Television Ranges..

01:17:42:01 Salesman shows couple around showroom of appliances: blenders, refrigerators, mixers, toasters, fans.

01:17:52:27 Two men are talking, one standing the other seated when the standing man s wife enters wearing an apron offering a basket of baked goods Here boys try some of these there fresh from the oven, to which her husband replies Don t tempt me he s the one has lost weight.

01:18:42:14 Shot reverse shot scene of white haired executive speaking with younger man in his office. The executive says:

Did you know that tens of thousands of our employees feel that their work is important enough for them to own shares in the company.  

The younger man pulling out a notepad from his jacket pocket answers with interest Is that so?

01:19:42:14 VS of a large model of a jet engine that exposes its internal mechanisms.

01:20:02:14 Old business executive offers younger man a cigarette from a cigarette case; the younger man lights the executive s cigarette then his own.

01:20:58:21 Hand puts cigarette out on wood table surface; second hand of another man does the same.

01:21:09:09 Two men with backs to camera looking off to far end of office, younger man points and asks Is that an atomic power plant? The two men walk over to a model of an atomic power plant. VS of the atomic energy plant model.

01:22:27:00 Man reading booklet with feet kicked out on desk. Wife enters frame for door on other end of room and says Come on this will make you feel better holding tray with two cops of coffee. Man sits down at the couch Oh black coffee good!

01:22:58:07 VS workers using giant drills and other power tools in factory.

01:23:04:09 Woman vigorously hand washing clothes on washboard in basin; dissolves to modern 1950s housewife in apron loading laundry machine. CU spinning laundry and in Westinghouse Laundromat model washing machine.

01:23:21:28 Low angle 1950s housewife in apron vacuuming dissolves to old-fashioned woman with beating out a rug on clothesline outside

01:23:41:08 1950s housewife in apron takes a ham out of the refrigerator and cake out of the freezer.

01:23:54:18 Old man in hat pours coal into coal burning oven.

01:23:59:14 Woman walks into kitchen, opens oven and pulls out oven trays with chicken, carrots, and baked potatoes among other food inside.

01:24:35:20 CU doctor listens to man s chest with stethoscope and taps on man s chest.

01:24:49:19 Man standing having X-ray taken of his chest.

01:24:58:28 Doctor takes X-ray of woman s chest lying on hospital bed as nurse stands by patients head.

01:25:12:17 CU X-ray of human chest; shadow of heart can be seen beating.

01:25:17:27 X-ray showing skeleton swallowing liquid out of glass.

01:25:25:03 Woman sitting in bathroom in only a towel with her reflection visible in bathroom mirror.

01:25:35:03 Man bending over to turn on television set in living room.

01:25:36:21 CU television set turns on to football game with player running a touchdown.

01:25:43:11 MS large radio set in would cabinet; camera zooms out to show a young woman nestled on her husband s shoulder as they listen to the radio.

01:25:58:23 Husband and wife sitting together on couch. Wife looking deep in thought says Funny how we take a lot of those things for granted.

Electronics at Work
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