| Consolidated Western Steel Pipeline | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1042 |
| Catalog #: | 459552 | |
| Clip Number: | 459552-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 288-1 | |
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| Location: | Los Angeles, CA | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Coal & Coke INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Natural Gas | |
| Description: | CU sign on large steel pipe: "Fabricated by Consolidated Western Steel Corporation - Los Angeles, California" 01:00:07 LS laborer moving pipe with metal jack, another in foreground doing the same. LS worker on stack of large pipes (about 2 feet diameter), swinging it into position as it hangs from crane to stack. Looks like dangerous work 01:00:27 LS steel yard with crane moving pipes onto stack. Closeups show details of attachment which attaches to pipe, and we have a good CU of the end of the pipe moving through the air. MS steel worker rolling pipe 01:01:30 LS large mechanized crane lowering pipe onto railroad cars. This is a gantry-style crane such as is used today to move containers on and off ships 01:02:23 LS pipe sliding down on conveyor, worker looking out for it. More scenes of bracket from crame lowering onto a pipe and picking it up 01:03:05 MS business executive standing gleefully at stack of pipes. This looks like the boss, proud of what his workers can do; he speaks to camera and points at pipes 01:03:30 LS stack of pipes, crane lowering another onto it; worker places pipe into position 01:04:05 LS workers in hardhats cinching down stack of pipes for safe shipment 01:04:14 CU nicely-dressed businessman in hat and glasses; more pipe moving shots 01:04:44 good overhead view of pipe, from POV of crane operator, showing moving operation 01:05:09 WS large freight yard with stacks of pipes; good MS worker moving pipes; more abstract patterns of pipe 01:05:35 MS two businessmen talking 01:06:18 LS man climbing down from stack of pipes; good MS worker in hardhat with cigarette; CU rolling pipe 01:07:00 more details of pipe-lifting operation; lowered on to Southern Pacific freight car 01:08:37 LS railcar with executive posing by stack of pipe; sign says "100 car Santa Fe train hauling FIRST SHIPMENT OF PIPE for the WORLD'S LONGEST PIPE LINE - Texas to New York ... Consigned to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation." 01:09:12 MS executives shaking hands in front of sign 01:09:38 CU workers securing pipe on railroad car; more exec handshakes 01:10:28 CU end of pipe moving through air | |
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