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1921 - Mechanization, USA Documentary: Industrial Working Conditions

Reel Number: 220452-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1921,1920s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 23:18:21

TC Ends: 23:29:46

Duration: 00:11:25

1921 - Mechanization, USA Documentary: Industrial Working Conditions Main & opening titles. 23:18:56 Ext of factory yard w/ many workers pulling cars, cars & trucks seen beneath overhead pipes & conveyors. Descriptive intertitle re labor saving machinery & best working conditions in the world... 23:19:38 Man feeding dishes into hotel kitchen dishwashing machine, removing & hand-drying steaming hot dishes. 23:20:19 Intertitle: - and how easily ice cream is made. Liquid milk or ice cream poured into bucket & into machine, chef w/ hat polishes machinery, ice cream out into pail & chef eats in kitchen smiling. 23:21:07 Intertitle: re cutting many cloths at once w/ power cutter. Garment manufacturing, women & man looking at patterns. 23:21:37 Intertitle re heavy industry. Coal from railroad car dumped & weighed; fed automatically to factory furnace by conveyor. 23:22:45 Intertitle re coal mining, miners push cart & automatically lifted out of mine, carried into rail car. 23:23:34 Intertitle. Saw mill; Automobile factory, production lines of car parts moved by conveyors. 23:24:50 Intertitle. Candy factory, MCU pulling & cutting strip of candy; women packaging pile of sweets in tin boxes, workers in white. 23:25:30 Intertitle. Huge chunk of gum for chewing gum dumped out of mixer. 23:25:46 Intertitle re hotel kitchen. Very busy w/ chefs, waiters; plates filled.. 23:26:15 Intertitle re health of workers safeguarded. Cut glass makers wear protective masks & dump powder ingredients into hole. Coal miners at work w/ open flame lamps on helmets, one lights cigarette w/ headlamp. Cranking large hand drills in coal face. 23:27:28 Intertitle re workers taught w/ motion pictures. Men in suits watch film of factory. Worker w/ mustache at legal department office of company, lawyers in suits. Shakes hands & leaves. 23:28:14 Intertitle re automobile factory. Forge shop of car factory & man operating drop hammer on glowing hot part. Workshop with many workers in apron at lathes & work stations. Wooden wheels rolling down conveyor ramps. 23:29:24 Lace curtain weaving w/ large loom, men operating. The End. 1920s Educational Film; Propaganda; Americana; Industrialization; Manufacturing; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. GOOD QUALITY.

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