Getting Acquainted with Engineering
Getting Acquainted with Engineering is a short film from ca. 1950s released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
14:03:02:09 CU man from waist down walking along sidewalks carrying leather briefcase.
14:07:06:01 Young man wearing yellow v-neck sweater enters building; CU sign for Testing Bureau
14:07:32:03 MS back of young man wearing yellow sweater looking at blackboard divided into three sections with words written in white chalk: Performance, Aptitudes, Interests; CU pan over words written in chalk on blackboard Performance, Aptitudes and Interests; young man in yellow sweater greets man in gray suit as he enters classroom; MS man in grey suit plots young man s test results on chalkboard writing in each of three categories, man draws in chalk two bars above average under performance, one bar is for IQ, the other for high school performance; man in grey suit draws bar to about average line for verbal aptitude, above average for computational aptitude, space duration and mechanical aptitude above average; man in grey suit tells boy that maybe he shouldn t study engineering but become and auto mechanic; man draws lines on chart showing boy has great interest in mechanics, science and art but not literature; man says Bill could be an engineer but has to work on the communication art his verbal skills.
14:13:25:04 Man seated at desk wearing light colored suit with red tie, 1950s style, reaches for notebook and opens to page with water color of a classroom of boys and girls; CU water color of typical 1950s high school classroom; audio track man says girls usually don t take an interest in engineering so let s eliminate the girls , page turns to water color of classroom with empty seats where the girls were sitting, then man says those with low grade average can t be engineers, page turns to watercolor of classroom with 4 boys, mostly empty desks; VS cartoon stills of workers yelling at riveters and other workers on construction site.
14:16:07:16 MS two Navy soldiers, one reading a sexton; MS radio sexton.
14:16:22:27 Man hooks up plow to back of John Deere tractor; CU farmer in seat of John Deere tractor; tractor driving away from camera plowing land attached by a cable to car driving alongside the tractor; CU multi-channel oscillograph charting brush; LS car driving through field alongside tractor plowing land.
14:18:32:07 SLO-MO shot of an impact crusher smashing large rocks, spinning hammers break up rocks
14:19:58:05 Still image cartoon of chemical engineer wearing white lab coat mixing chemicals in laboratory; cut to picture of man getting whiff of chemicals mixing and turning green.
14:20:33:06 LS welder lowers his mask and begins to weld.
14:20:41:13 Pan down assembly line of mostly women dressed like nuns in white robes with heads covered assembling mechanical parts.
14:20:52:00 Man putting cardboard panels around 1950s-style washing machines moving along conveyor line, washing machines look like large metal barrels; custom mechanical parts some look like car axels moving across frame hanging from chains attached to hooks.
14:21:16:16:21 CU disembodied hand holding pen fills out paperwork, rolled up sleeve of plaid shirt, wedding band on left hand holding down page.
14:21:32:11 Two men in factory inspecting two giant reels spooling cellophane; inside machine spooling giant rolls of cellophane; CU man cuts long strip of cellophane out of giant roll; VS men working in cellophane factory.
14:21:35:06 CU over should of 1950s teenage boy filling out answer sheet of multiple choice test; CU test title Engineering Aptitude
14:23:42:11 Exterior of brick building with chemical engineering sign above front door building; teenager wearing red letter jacket enters building| Getting Acquainted with Engineering | |
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| Produced by | Iowa State College, Film Production Unit |
Production companies | Iowa State College, Film Production Unit |
| Distributed by | Iowa State College, Film Production Unit |
Release date | ca. 1950s |
Running time | 22:30 |
| Language | English |
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