| HOT COLD A look at how artificial ice is made in a factory. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7238 |
| Catalog #: | 254729 | |
| Clip Number: | 254729-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 339 | |
| Timecode: | 01:51:11 - 01:53:02 | |
| Location: | Europe | |
| Year Shot: | 1936 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Factories, Misc INDUSTRY: Ice LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Misc | |
| Description: | HOT COLD A look at how artificial ice is made in a factory. M/S of heavy machinery and big wheels in factory which makes artificial ice (dry ice). Containers are filled with water and lowered into bath of freezing salt and ammonia. The water freezes and the blocks are brought out by a crane arm, the blocks are then dipped into water of normal temperature. M/S of the blocks draining off and sliding out. Men stack them in tiers. M/S of a coke oven being stoked up, the gas from it is sealed in cylinders and frozen. M/S of coke, then chemical ice melting in the air. M/S of hydraulic press squeezing it into blocks, M/S as it is touched with hot metal rod and gives off strange whining sound. | |
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