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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221666-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1956
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 17:19:30
TC Ends: 17:28:58
Duration: 00:09:28
Titles 17:19:53 Teenage boys in workshop class - CU & VO by one student Joe re enthusiasm for this kind of work. Montage: CUs drafting w/ triangle & pencil; scribing pattern on wood; metalwork, plastics, leatherwork. 17:20:29 Wood trimmed in saw; CU sawdust & woodchips. MCU welder w/ protective mask, planing wood, working leather, hand sawing, planing wood, chiselling. Class workshop - VO “I feel real good because I’m a craftsman”. CUs & LS. 17:21:37 Class over, Joe finishing table - friend Bill asks him about it - “looks as good as furniture you’d buy in a store”. Cuts back to: 17:22:28 Joe discussing benefits of shop course w/ teacher - “we need many more young men who are trained to design our future...” Shots of architects, designers, draftsmen, engineers, carpenters, steelworkers, plumbers, foundry men, tool operators, mechanics at work - “all of these jobs pay well” - teacher suggests shop course good basis for further college course or apprenticeship. Joe explains benefits of course to his friend Bill. 17:24:57 Printing press; farmer finishing new barn; teacher in industrial arts class. 17:25:45 Salesman demonstrating TV / television set. Large production machine & men talking. 17:26:01 Bill & Joe talking in gym locker room. Basketball coach walks in & explains how industrial arts training gave him useful mechanical knowledge - cut to him fixing car by roadside, checking quality of new home, carrying out repair work & home improvement. 17:28:14 Boys listening to coach, leave for practice. Bill decides to take industrial arts courses. The End. 1950s American High School; Post-Korean War; Heavy Industry Manufacturing; Careers / Recruitment; Educational Films; Ernestness;