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Little Giant, The R1 of 2

Reel Number: 221517-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s

Country: USA

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TC Begins: 05:12:19

TC Ends: 05:20:22

Duration: 00:08:03

Titles. CU man w/ crew cut listening; CU transistor radio; MS w/ shadow of light behind very 1950s. CU studio microphone; MS man playing electric organ; CU radio; MS man reading by radio taking off glasses that have hearing aid built into frames, removes hearing aid battery & CU of it in palm of hand. 05:13:40 Hand w/ electron tube on table. man listening to tube radio, family watching tv; theatrical motion picture projector. Small tube placed beside larger. Engineers at wall chart. 05:14:20 Bell Telephone engineers Walter Brattain, William Shockley & John Bardeen at workbench w/ electronic equipment. Nobel Prize winners in 1956. 05:14:42 CU Newspaper announcing transistor & date 01Jul48 written across. Transistor in hand beside two previous tubes. 05:15:15 Illustation showing Germanium sandwich acting as emitter, base & collector. Diagram of how it works. 05:16:19 Laboratory model of telephone showing how transistor improves sound level. Man soaking blotter paper, wrapping w/ coin & using to operate a transistor. 05:17:00 Room w/ workbench & hand manufacturing transistors w/ magnifying glasses w/ controlled humidity & temperature. Machines manufacturing transistors & inspection machine w/ woman operating to sort & inspect, loading it by hand. 05:17:50 Warehouse & packing case for shipping to Japan. Crane shot over factory w/ automated manufacturing of engine blocks. CU master control panel. Four-engine plane taking off, cockpit, automatic pilot. Pilots hands setting controls on autopilot. 05:19:22 Night & rocket on launch pad for satellite launch; control room & large electronic panels. Rocket launch w/ spinning satellite on top. 05:20:07 Meeting in conference room & recording by small miniaturized tape recorder for foreign students. 1950s Science; Technology; Inventions;

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