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WWII - Color, 1944, USA Homefront: Story of Copper, A Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 221621-06

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: USA

Location: Arizona,Bisbee

TC Begins: 04:52:06

TC Ends: 05:01:06

Duration: 00:09:00

WWII - Color, 1944, USA Homefront: Copper Mining Pt. 3 of 3 04:52:06 Remaining pure blister copper poured from converter & moved in huge bucket & poured into anode furnace. Men w/ pipes injecting air; excess oxygen removed by poling. CU of pole being inserted & burning. 04:53:02 Anode furnace poured to casting wheel into molds for casting plates. Fork lift moving copper to stacks for shipment to electrolytic refinery. 10:53:49 Art card: Refining consisting of “Electrolysis, Shearing, Furnace, Casting Wheel.” 10:54:10 Ext. tanks for electrolytic process. Row of large plates lowered by overhead crane. Sheets of pure refined copper cathodes straightened & suspended between anodes. Warm electrolyte pumped in. 10:54:56 Model tank as example, current dissolves anode into solution & copper deposits on cathode. Impurities settle to bottom. 10:55:15 Pure copper cathodes removed by overhead crane, moved to washers. 10:55:43 Man sweeping impurities in bottom of tank, shovels out. 10:55:54 Some sheets of copper cathodes sheared & removed; others melted down for casting into ingots & bars. Air pumped into furnace, covered & green poles inserted. Copper poured into casting wheel molds. Bars for making wire moved. Wire being wound & used in constructing motor windings. 10:57:41 Wire being handled, stripped. Telephone & switching stations. Women & men soldering & assembling electronics. Copper being turned on lathe. Household appliances. Man soldering copper pipes. man assembling dashboard; airplane construction. Radar station. 10:59:06 Desert & industrial town based on copper industry. Students leaving university building. 10:59:41 Large shovel bucket filling railroad car. Carts of copper ingots moved in factory yard. Pouring copper into molds. 11:00:25 Statue of Liberty - Scenic shot. End credits. Phelps Dodge Corporation; 1940s; American Home Front, WW2; USA; Color Industrial Film; NOTE: Probably Morenci or Cooper Queen Mine. Any continuous 17 minutes of film on 3 cards sold at per reel rate.

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