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{{Filmjr |title=Looking Ahead Through Rohm & Haas Plexiglas |embid=2323_Looking_Ahead_Through_Rohm_Haas_Plexiglas_M01582_07_40_05_12 |embsv=archiveorg |desc=Used during the war for bomber noses and other enclosures on every type of Army and Navy plane, Plexiglas became known as "aviation's standard transparent plastic." Its conversion to peacetime uses - with horizons broadened by new technical developments, including a limitless range of colors - is shown in this film. 02:01:20:19 VS army helicopter taking off. 02:01:30:12 VS 1940s to 1950sarmy planes on runway; several aircraft appear to be experimental models. 02:01:46:20 VS B-29 bomber airplane; gunner planes. 02:02:01:22 MS woman reading Life magazine which covers her face from camera; army soldier on cover and Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement on back cover. Woman puts magazine down on lap; CU magazine as woman flips through pages. Audio track narration while woman scans over ads in magazine: This is Plexiglas too, one of the most fascinating and beautiful of the new plastic materials created by chemical science. With its permanent clarity, sparkling brilliance, warm touch, strength, and ability to pipe light, ready to bring new beauty and comfort to your home, and add charm to your peace time living. 02:02:30:22 Pan over various products that have Plexiglas spread out over dark surface: telephone, pool balls, clothes hanger, bowl, eye glasses, purse, comb. 02:02:47:20 CU Plexiglas cut into diamond shape. 02:03:02:29 CU hand pours out of flask a gooey clear substance, acrylic resin, onto a slanted glass surface. 02:03:43:21 Woman fills flask with clear monomer liquid from faucet extending off of large pipe. 02:04:06:28 CU hand scoops white powder out of dish and breaks it up on surface. 02:04:42:04 Pan over Rohm & Haas laboratory and production plant with Rohm & Haas logo superimposed over the shot. 02:04:57:11 Pan men working in a Rohm & Haas factory workshop. 02:05:18:07 Man buffing large piece of Plexiglas. 02:05:24:00 Man holding over himself a large piece of Plexiglas in the shape of a dome or shield for some sort of vehicle. 02:05:47:13 VS men in workshop with saws and other machinery working with Plexiglas; CU square sheet of Plexiglas is cut with table saw into circular pieces; CU sheet of Plexiglas is carved; rectangular piece of Plexiglas in clamp being drilled, drill bit entering Plexiglas is visible; Plexiglas turns on lathe. 02:07:00:27 VS pan down row of Plexiglas formed in various shapes laid out on black felt surface. 02:07:56:18 Round sheet of Plexiglas is clamped down over a vacuum which uses air pressure and slowly blow up the piece of Plexiglas into a spherical bowl-like object; dissolves into the half sphere with legs attached filled with water and fish. 02:08:11:29 MS man in suit holds Plexiglas scuba helmet over his head; large shadow of man on back wall. 02:08:16:28 Large machine presses out sheet of corrugated Plexiglass. 02:08:56:29 CU sign Research Laboratory Rohm & Haas Co. on brick wall. 02:10:01:29 VS man in comical white protective suit with a large cylindrical helmet with air tube attached to it in the back enters freezer room and latches door behind him; man in white protective suit aim nozzle of labs man-made 200 mph tornado at Plexiglas surface. 02:10:53:20 CU hand open glass jar filled with liquid, and pulls out test-tube like piece of Plexiglas from the jar. 02:11:00:06 VS men and women working in laboratory running various tests on Plexiglas. 02:11:19:07 CU gloved hands coil heated piece of Plexiglas around cylinder; Plexiglas coil is taken off the molding cylinder and banged on a surface to shows its durability. 02:11:58:28 CU Plexiglas cube placed inside clamp is pressed into disk shape. 02:12:24:14 CU Plexiglas disk is placed on hotplate; a clock is placed beside it which reads 8:00; the disk at 8:10 has begun to rise like bread and its round edges have begun to square; at 8:16 the Plexiglas is nearly a cube; at 8:20 the Plexiglas is almost a cube; at 8:31 the Plexiglas is a cube. 02:13:12:11 Man holds up curved piece of Plexiglas to light projector and demonstrates light piped through and S-shaped piece of Plexiglas onto a screen. 02:14:17:13 Three sheets of carved Plexiglas are place on in front of the other. Combined they make a three-dimensional scene of a farm in the country. Audio track narration: With several edge lighted sheets of Plexiglas, each carrying a portion of the design, a three-dimensional picture may be produced. Here is truly a new art medium. 02:14:40:15 CU man s hands with drill carving a flower into a sheet of Plexiglas. 02:15:12:20 Man in safety glasses squats in front of his office desk and hits a piece of Plexiglas placed on the floor with a hammer. CU hammer strikes Plexiglas without it breaking; second harder strike with Plexiglas breaking but without shattering. 02:16:03:18 CU four Plexiglas contact lenses on black felt surface. Hand with tweezer lifts one of the lenses. 02:16:27:16 VS draughtsman working at draught table; CU draftsman using Plexiglas triangle to render his design. 02:17:03:04 Plexiglas carved lamp and trays on pinstriped surface with audio track exclaiming Plexiglas is a new and captivating material. A precious material to be cherished in your home as you cherish fine furniture, Oriental rugs, and silver followed by VS of CU woman cleaning Plexiglas tray in soapy sink and waxing it with a cloth. 02:17:40:22 CU pan down row of typewriter-like printers printing text on long sheets of paper. 02:17:56:11 CU piece of wood sawed on table saw with Plexiglas protective cover over the blade. 02:18:10:16 VS Plexiglas products displayed on black surface 02:18:30:02 Spotlighted shot of three dentures and eight fake eye surfaces. 02:18:52:20 Pan down Plexiglas illuminated signs in cascade formation: Furs Cleaned Betzold Brothers, Brentwood Sportswear, Hadley pure cashmere American for Fine Sweaters , Sunroc. 02:19:00:16 VS CU Plexiglas jewelry on display and various other trinkets and objects made of Plexiglas. 02:20:09:03 High-angle pan begins with two containers, one labeled Injection the other Compressed , then continues over two rows of square cards with small mounds of different colored powders. 02:20:49:16 Pan through a futurist model home interior (the "Dream Suite") utilizing Plexiglas materials; woman seated on couch reading in room with dark industrial cityscape painted on wall and enclosed by Plexiglas door, woman looks up to the camera, walks out of room; VS woman looks at herself in the mirror, then walks to the shower enclosed by a semicircular Plexiglas sliding door. 02:21:59:15 Woman in bathroom looks at herself in medicine cabinet mirror then opens medicine cabinet. Woman points out the Plexiglas Poisons shelf in the cabinet. 02:22:14:24 VS woman demonstrates her futuristic dressing table. CU woman opening drawers with lingerie. Woman opens closest and hold dress over herself as she looks in mirror. Women opens up doors to lazy Susan hat tree. 02:23:55:15 CU Plexiglas art piece with illuminated smoke stacks. Dark industrial cityscape of smokestacks and skyscrapers. |forma=16mm |year=1947 |up=|next=|prev=|step= |lang=English |pbrs=Handy (Jam) Organization |heldby=PA |len=0 |link= |bw= |ani= |ewid= }}

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