Dow Midland
Dow Midland is a short film from 1951 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
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Dow Diamond symbol (corporate logo) Map of world with Dow Diamonds on it Map of U.S.- Dow Diamonds appear 1 by 1 camera pans to CU of Michigan - Dow Diamonds & titles at DETROIT, BAY CITY, MIDLAND, MARQUETTE, SOUTH HAVEN, LUDINGTON Camera CU MIDLAND, BAY CITY Street sign : MIDLAND CITY LIMIT Camera pans out to cars driving down road Bus coming down street Car pulls in front of house on row of houses - residential street VS Midland bldgs - modern Large crowd of people leaving work MLS full parking lot - smokestacks in background Swarm of people walking off train platform VS crowds leaving work building VS/MCU board of directors at table map of world behind them, man gets up and points to map
2:32 Cloudy, blue sky, brine well Drawing of 1 brine well - camera pans out to drawing of urban area Drawing - cutaway of Earth - strata CU layers with titles : SALT AND BRINE MCU Dow plant from across the river VS Dow plant, i.e. holding tanks CU tub of bromine crystals from brine (potassium bromine) VS/CU man in glasses moving pans of bromine crystals
4:08 Woman primping her hair as she looks in mirror, framed photo of man on vanity - woman adjusts picture MCU Dow plant - smokestack CU of machine making strips of magnesium compounds CU strips - fills frame - man enters screen to inspect strip MCU man in glasses putting hand on revolving machine, getting white crystals
4:48 Machine automatically filling EPSOM SALT boxes Machine automatically loading EPSOM SALT bags (conveyer belt) MCU man washing off dirty filters with hose CU bag - DOWFLAKE Truck driving away full of DOWFLAKE - coating road MCU large holding tanks - truck and 2 men show how large they are MCU electrolytic cell building MCU red truck - men erecting ladder in truck, climbing ladder MCU man in glasses, white coat and hat shoveling caustic soda CU man closing barrel of caustic soda with identifying lid VS/CU tanks of ammonia
6:24 MCU train on track in train yard CU man next to trucks of chlorine - tank cars CU part of Dow plant MCU tanks (holding) green - 2 men on top of them
7:05 Woman in dotted dress - dialing phone, talking - old radio is also on table MCU plant - color coordinated - all red, white and gray - even pickup truck driving through scene is red VS/MLS Dow plant plant towers - beautiful colors
8:12 Man putting antifreeze in his car CU man breaking off chunks of indigo paste in factory 2 men working Kids on seesaws in park Man in white uniform and hat on catwalk working in factory
8:56 CU aspirin falling from automatic machine CU 3 bottles of pills - 1 blue, 1 pink, 1 white CU man in glasses next to yellow pill bottle filling machine MCU man using mortar and pestle - bottles of pills in front of him He pours powder into mortar from sheet of paper, grounds CU train pulling into trainyard - private Dow train and track
9:46 MCU red truck with yellow cab - backing into garage MLS factory - dark shot Camera moving down road enclosed by red Dow piping MCU corner of reservoir, holding tanks in background MCU sprinklers cleaning soil outside factory
10:39 3 employees walking outside of office bldg CU communications room - ticker tape (teletypes), 1 female employee Stills
11:33 CU printer spitting out ticker tape (teletype tape) Stills Printer typing out messages Still Printer typing again Stills
12:53 CU hands typing on typewriter, text in front of typist (teletype machine) - followed by still CU woman in evening dress - putting on perfume, prinping hair CU communications machine Camera pans large plant - DOW CU hand, eye dropper - vials and jars in background Checking flammability
13:49 Beautiful row of bubbling tall flasks of red liquid MCU 2 men conducting research with liquids VS/CU man with notebook checking area of laboratory, he adjusts gauge CU blocks of magnesium CU machine inserting large tube size of brine into machine - cap is put on machine automatically MCU tubes of metal on conveyer belt VS/CU of different shaped metal bars - rounded, hollow, etc. Title : DOW - WEED KILLERS
15:25 VS/CU man in greenhouse - gathering research material from plant CU bag and can of Dow Lime Sulfur and Arsenate of Lead VS bags and cans of weed killers Title : THE DOW CHEMICAL CO. FIELD AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS RESEARCH MLS car parked in front of low, modern bldg - man walking up to bldg entrance
16:06 VS/MCU man spraying trees - man on moving truck Man in research with 2 mixers - 1 mixing yellow liquid, 1 mixing pink liquid CU hand retrieving plastic squares from box - mixer next to him CU 2 researchers amid pipes CU man with plastic squares Titles and piles of crystals : ETHOCEL, STYRON, SARAN Title : SARAN CU part of factory - outdoors - bus VS researchers in laboratories CU hand cutting fine fibers of saran (yellow) CU all sorts of "tresses" of saran - different colors Title : STYRON
18:12 VS variety of plastic products in table - plates, cups, brushes, canisters... CU main building of Plastic Dept., Midland - camera pans Styron plant MCU large, long pan of water - moving CU man pouring colorful crystals into glass containers MCU slabs of styron piled on mover Styron slab yard - people carrying them, piles MCU Dow Bldg, CU Dow Bldg
19:40 CU woman with paint roller, painting wall dark green MCU cranes VS/MCU construction sites of Dow buildings Red yellow sunset in background - Dow plant with smoking stack Whole factory and sunset reflecting in water Lit factory at night Lit sign on top of building at end of twilight: THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
The end| Dow Midland | |
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| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1951 |
Running time | 20:00 |
| Language | English |
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