| Adlake Windows | ||
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| Catalog #: | 371231 | |
| Clip Number: | 371231-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | FFS-AA1036 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Elkhart, IN | |
| Year Shot: | 1954 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Corporate / Industrial Films | |
| Description: | PREVIEW CASETTE 218612 Manufacture and use of Adlake windows. Fade in on the Adlake seal logo. Main title, Adlake logo. Cut to the front of the Adlake building, tilt down from the American flag to the door; aerial shot of the 10 acre plant, employing 600 people. Ground shot, pan of front; car goes by. Studio demonstration of windows, with men demonstrating various features of said windows: aluminum double hung window. A projected window and a reversible aluminum showing how window washers clean them from inside the building. Cut to a pan of the engineering department, many drawing boards with draftsmen. Adlake laboratory as window is tested for static air pressure and water pressure; water pours over window. CU of meter showing force applied. Engineers, grouped over a drawing board, study a blueprint; draftsman draws on the board. CU of Adlake decal on drawing. Pile of aluminum ingots. Opertaor at control console in the lab checks electronic analysis. Recorder logs the data on a paper roll. Molten metal poured into book-type molds to form billets. The billets are normalized and preheated. They go into the extruding press and the extruded aluminum emerges, a 30 to 40 foot extrusion from one billet on this press. Extrusions are then stretched on a hydraulic stretcher, inspected, cut to lengths. Racks of extrusions are heat-treated in large oven. CU of finished handles. LS of foundry making non-ferrous castings, pouring the molten metal into sand molds. Milling, drilling and machining shown. Brake presses fold sheets of metal. Weather stripping, high-pile stripping, is made on special rolling machines. Flash welding; sparks fly. Gas welding, with sparks. CU of bending of extrusion. Piercing and final machining. Workman inspects metal parts. A section is milled out. Windows dipped into vats for satin finish. Large anodyzing baths. Clear lacquer is applied with spray gun. Finished parts are sorted, sashes assembled, parts fitted and locked in ECU. Fitting weather-stripping, glazed beads, mounting of locks, safety anchors screwed on; riveting; installation of sash balances on double-hung windows; sub-assembly of outer frames; final assembly of projected and reversible types; pan of shop interior, windows in various stages. CU of a double-hung being assembled. Fixed windows are assembled. Adjustments and final inspections. The label is applied, with installation and glazing instructions. Application of the Adlake Quality seal. Packing in crates, display of catalogues, brochures, final summary of narrator and pan of many windows: schools, hospitals and office buildings. Parker Pen Company, Janesville, Wisconsin, then a City-County building, then the final Adlake Quality seal. Tilt up a skyscraper. The End. | |
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