One Thousand Hours
One Thousand Hours is a short film from 1936 released on 35mm/16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Producer's synopsis: "Group of high school boys who have a workshop and laboratory of their own learn, from a transport pilot who befriends them, that studies their teachers want them to learn are important, too; an aviator or any man in the modern world needs to know geometry, physics, geography, and all the other school subjects."
This film was made to prevent teenagers from succumbing to cynicism during the Depression, when few job prospects were available.
07:15:10:16 LS teenage boy looking glum, walking with head down, exits high school from front entrance wearing letterman jacket and carrying books under one arms, other hand in pocket; passes camera.
07:15:33:14 VS CU wood sign on door hand painted Invention Company Inc. No Admittance ; LS sulking teenage boy enters shed passes geeky teenage boy in glasses seated in front of chemical lab equipment, beakers, flasks of bubbling and steaming liquid; smaller boy with pliers working on machine part asks what d she make you do?
Oh my Algebra homework. Nuts to school I d like to quit. What ya kickin for, she only kept you an hour this time. Well who wants to spend an hour just to find out what x equals.
Geeky boy in round black frame glasses looks up from stirring bubbling beaker Well you found out didn t you?
So what, I m sick of school, I wanna to be practical, I wanna work.
MS boy with oil and grease all over face For crying out loud don t you get enough work in school?
Ah rats not that kind of work, I mean real work. Well I can learn more about airplanes in a garage than I can in school. I tell yah!
07:16:41:07 Teenage boy in letterman jacket excitedly grabs pilot by the arm I wanna talk business with you, pulling him over to table by window in workshop.
Oh, trouble with the plane? lifting model plane off counter then plays with it. No, it s about school, I wanta quit and get a job.
Pilot with concerned tone I thought you wanted to be an aviator. Points at pilot That s just it, if you could get my a job around the airport, I d be learning all the right things, not spending hours and hours at algebra and science and all that junk. I d be getting a lot of groundwork MS pilot interrupts Whoa! wait a minute. You need more than that. Ground work is all well and good, but you get the biggest part of that in school. It s the early training and preparation that counts. If you don t have it all figured out right in the first place, you ll never make a good pilot.
07:18:06:06 Mechanics in airplane hangar inspecting and wiping down with rags old 1950s American Airlines plane.
07:18:09:02 Four mechanics working on American Airlines U.S. Mail plane in hangar; book Foundations of Physics is superimposed over plane.
07:18:32:04 CU from outside cockpit window; profile of pilot in American Airlines aviation cap testing radio headset.
07:18:59:14 VS of old American Airlines plane; men in coats and hat entering plane on ladder; American Airlines written on inside of door and American Airlines logo on tail of plane; VS of 1940s to 1950 American Airlines commercial plane taking off; pilot flipping switches and running through checklist in cockpit.
07:20:31:04 CU behind pilot in cockpit flying at night in storm; rain splashing of windshield, lightning flashes.
07:21:12:19 VS CU hand tapping out signal on electric telegraph; four kids watch on entranced.
07:21:45:28 VS CU artificial horizon instrument showing plane flying on even keel; CU altimeter reads altitude of 1200 feet; CU speedometer (air speed indicator) showing just over 100 mph; VS plane landing, both views from inside and outside of plane.
07:24:20:22 Teenage boy with grease covered face working on car with wrench; license plates and steering wheels hung on wall behind him.
07:24:36:14 Teenage boy in letterman jackets studying hard reading from book and writing, pauses and looks up and off into distance as camera moves up and away from boy; boy smiles, plane flying in sky superimposed over studying boy.
07:25:02:19 Zoom in on spinning Chevrolet hubcap; stops on CU Chevrolet logo on hubcap.| One Thousand Hours | |
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| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1936 |
Running time | 942 feet |
| Language | English |
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