| Bathing At Its Best | ||
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| Catalog #: | 371236 | |
| Clip Number: | 371236-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | FFS-AA1042 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Elkhart, IN | |
| Year Shot: | 1954 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Corporate / Industrial Films | |
| Description: | PREVIEW #98635 A sales film, showing manufacture and uses of Weisway Shower enclosures. Fade in on a red screen with water pelting it. Superimpose opening titles. Henry Weis Manufacturing Company presents, "Bathing At Its Best" (bubbles over a blue/black BG clear away to show this title). Produced by Frink Films. FO/FI on Bill (actor Herbert True) placing a sign "Weisway Cabinet Showers" on a shower stall in a display set. Another man watches him. They discuss the new glass door on the shower. Cut ot ECU of the handle. ECU pivots. A third man enters as they talk and we see more of the bathroom fixture dislays. The newcomer is introduced as Jim, a plumber. He is looking for a good 32" shower for a new installation. Camera tilts down ECU shower and they discuss the metal receptor. Bill talks about the Weis Co., building knockdown showers since 1926. Cut to early Weis catalogue pages. Since 1932 they have been building showers with vitreous porcelain fired metal receptors, as well as pre-cast stone terrazzo. Cut from CU's of the men talking to exterior of the Weis plant. LS of metal being cleansed in vats in the pickling room. MS of a workman opening a bag of frit (a glass compound, shown in ECU) for the ground coat. CU of solutions pouring from a spigot. Cut to a man in the paint booth with an overhead conveyor, spraying the outside of a receptor with the blue-black ground coat. Carefully, two men lift the coated receptor and hook it onto a conveyor trolley hooks. CU of a row of hanging receptors moving to the firing ovens. CU of the interior of a red-hot firing oven-- firing for 15 minutes at 1550 degress Fahrenheit-- with rows of receptors moving away from the waving heat. MS of the cooled receptors moving to the assembly lines. MS of workmen hanging units for the next coat, also fired at 1550 degrees. Cut to finished, installed receptor. Back to the spray line, with workmen spraying white finish inside, over the black undercoat. Two men then remove the stencil for the granulated quartz seashell pattern which provides a non-slip surface imbedded in the white base and the men hang the receptor on the conveyor line hooks; we see the seashell pattern of the floor design. Cut to two men removing a finished receptor from the conveyer hooks and stacking it for final inspection. Cut to a CU of a workman twisting a porcelian-fired metal strip without cracking the glass surface. Cut to a laboratory test, bending a corner brace about 100 degrees before it cracks. Cut to a still photo and a letter of proof showing testdropping 300 pound weight 360,000 times on a receptor without damage. Cu of a workman's hands installing the drain, coating the gaskets with glue, inspecting the receptor while preparing to attach the base insulation, and tightening the drain with a large electric tool suspended over the unit. ECU of a large hanging riveting machine attaching clinch nuts to the receptor-- these nuts allow installation from the inside. CU as the workman conceals the clinch nuts with a white trim strip and attaches the corner clips. MCU of a workman fastening the threshold to the receptor. MS as the workman places a receptor in its shipping carton. Cut to a workman lifting the completed package to place it on a stack of finished cartons. Cut to a CU of a finger running down the corner member and putting it into the adjoining wall and bonding the two with the corner strip clipped into place. Cut ot a LS of the workmen spraypainting side walls as they are trolleyed to a larger paint spray operation. This is an interesting sequence as the two workmen synchronize their movements to coat two sets of panels (they "bonderize" the galvanized sheet steel with a baked enamel finish) in the same rhythm. The panels are baked twice for 30 minutes at 300 degrees F (we don't see the baking). Cut to a LS of the corner of a bathroom with a Weisway shower installed. A young woman in a bathrobe prepares to take a shower. Cut to her hands adjusting the water temperature. Cut to a MS as she removes the robe, hangs it up and steps into the shower. Cut to a CU of her head and shoulders as the water sprays on her. Cut to a display sign:"Check the Wall!"... "Check the joints!"... "Shake it! Bump it! Check the receptor!" Cut to individual models of showers, simple stalls to larger sizes. LS's and insert CU's of the details. This sequence ends with a tilt down on a built in corner shower in a home built by Frank Lloyd Wright (for Herman Mossberg in South Bend, IN). Cut to an illustration of a Weisway Vitreceptor catalogue page and a full-shot of the receptor. Cut back to the three men in the display room. CU's and LS's and close with water pouring on a door; superimpose title "Check the quality of the Weisway Cabinet Shower". | |
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