Behind the Scenes in the Machine Age R3 of 3
Shows necessity of economic planning to avoid human waste of machine production.
02:00:18 Cigar factory, women workers in rows at desks in large room, male supervisor walks round aisles. MS woman cutting & rolling cigar by hand. MCU cutting leaf on board, rolling over inner cigar.
02:01:32 Mechanized machine-equipped cigar factory, three women workers; MS filing leaves into machine; automatic cutting of leaf, forming & rolling. Woman measuring & checking quality.
02:02:45 Car cushions marked, machine-stitched & put on belt by hand by women workers. Woman filling by hand.
02:04:17 Same operations done by machine in large factory room by only two workers. Stuffing pulled into machine & automatic machine filling upholstery. Spools of thread feeding machine stitching, then moving up rollers.
02:05:47 Title: New machinery reduces waste in production but too frequently increases human waste.
Animated cartoon showing consequences of machine production: loss of jobs, wage cuts, keeping pace w/ machine, monotony of work.
02:06:52 Art work of idealized telephone operator. Phone operators at switchboard. Graph shows increase of manual telephones in US till 1930.
02:07:51 Switchboard w/ supervisors. Track along row of telephone operators.
02:08:31 Dial system. Racks of equipment & man between testing w/ hand set; pan around room. Transfer of operators to other departments in telephone industry. Information operators working in cubicles; need for special operators shown split screen. CU of dialing operator; montage shows use of operators helping. Office w/ secretaries, accounting. Switchboard attendant in office.
02:11:20 Graph going down, cartoon of crashing train superimposed to illustrate human waste in Machine Age. Same graph where “economic planning” evens out straight road for train. Produced by Department of Labor Women’s Bureau. The End
1920s Industry; Production line; Industrial Economics; Obsolescence; Jobs; Automobile Upholstery Industry;
Tobacco Industry;
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Behind the Scenes in the Machine Age R3 of 3 Shows necessity of economic planning to avoid human waste of machine production. 02:00:18 Cigar factory, women workers in rows at desks in large room, male supervisor walks round aisles. MS woman cutting & rolling cigar by hand. MCU cutting leaf on board, rolling over inner cigar. 02:01:32 Mechanized machine-equipped cigar factory, three women workers; MS filing leaves into machine; automatic cutting of leaf, forming & rolling. Woman measuring & checking quality. 02:02:45 Car cushions marked, machine-stitched & put on belt by hand by women workers. Woman filling by hand. 02:04:17 Same operations done by machine in large factory room by only two workers. Stuffing pulled into machine & automatic machine filling upholstery. Spools of thread feeding machine stitching, then moving up rollers. 02:05:47 Title: New machinery reduces waste in production but too frequently increases human waste. Animated cartoon showing consequences of machine production: loss of jobs, wage cuts, keeping pace w/ machine, monotony of work. 02:06:52 Art work of idealized telephone operator. Phone operators at switchboard. Graph shows increase of manual telephones in US till 1930. 02:07:51 Switchboard w/ supervisors. Track along row of telephone operators. 02:08:31 Dial system. Racks of equipment & man between testing w/ hand set; pan around room. Transfer of operators to other departments in telephone industry. Information operators working in cubicles; need for special operators shown split screen. CU of dialing operator; montage shows use of operators helping. Office w/ secretaries, accounting. Switchboard attendant in office. 02:11:20 Graph going down, cartoon of crashing train superimposed to illustrate human waste in Machine Age. Same graph where “economic planning” evens out straight road for train. Produced by Department of Labor Women’s Bureau. The End 1920s Industry; Production line; Industrial Economics; Obsolescence; Jobs; Automobile Upholstery Industry; Tobacco Industry;