Blastrac Floor Cleaning Footage

Blastrac Floor Cleaning
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	Catalog #:	371420
	Clip Number:	371420-1
	Orginal Film:	FFS-AA1274
	Timecode:
	Location:	Mishawaka, IN
	Year Shot:	1975 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	INDUSTRY: Cleaning Buildings
	Description:	A Blastrac is a portable, movable blast cleaning unit made by Wheelabrator Frye. Per R. E. Schalliol, Adv Mgr. "FI on Blastrac logo; it zooms full screen. Dissolve to MCU the Blastrac florr cleaning machine, with operator ahead of it, leaving a clean, wide path in a dirty floor. Narrator: THE BLASTRAC ENVIRONMENTAL SURFACE PREPARATION SYSTEM IS A SELF-CONTAINED PORTABLE AIRLESS SHOT-BLAST UNIT DESIGNED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING OF HORIZONTAL CONCRETE SURFACES." Camera moves in to ECU cleaned concrete, then to LS of machine and auxilliary dust collector, the two machines connected by a vacuum hose. Three men are operating this rig. Narrator explains the unit is self-propelled forward or backward by an electric motor and can be operated by one man. Dissolve to unit now turned around and coming to camera, cleaning a second path parallel to the first. TRAVEL SPEED, narrator says, IS 1 TO 37 FEET PER MINUTE AND THE PATH OF THSI MACHINE IS 20" WIDE. Camera moves in to show the cleaned path and the fact that no shot, dust or debris is left on the floor. Camera zooms close to Blastrac logo, then moves down to ECU of floor and unit front. Dissolve to animated sequence of cutaway of Wheelaberator centrifugal blast wheel. Narrator describes the action. Cut to cutaway drawing of the floor cleaning unit; animated arrows follow the cleaning cycle. Cut to MCU as the unit cleans a painted floor and yellow plastic striping tape to bare concrete. Cut to one man operating a smaller unit, cleaning the edge and around pipes of an office. Cut to LS of this edging operation. Cut to hand rubbing across a cleaned floor next to a painted section; zoom down to ECU of the cleaned surface. Cut to larger machine coming to the camera, with operator in FG, and two men kneeling in BG; camera lifts to show that a large area of the floor has now been cleaned. Camera pans and tilts to show cleaned area, the machine in operation. Cut to machine coming at camera. Cut to tight shot cleaned concrete. Diss to WFI logo; logo zooms away from camera." Frink has A & B orig, overs and outs, script, mag tracks and ancilliary materials.