| IMPROVED TELEPHONE DIRECTORY IN THE MAKING New printing and binding techniques on show in South Africa. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7797 |
| Catalog #: | 59804 | |
| Clip Number: | 59804-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1270 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:12:36 - 01:14:53 | |
| Location: | Transvaal, South Africa | |
| Year Shot: | 1945 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Factories, Misc INDUSTRY: Printing & Publishing LOCATIONS/AFRICA: South Africa OCCUPATIONS: Factory Workers OCCUPATIONS: Women | |
| Description: | "African Mirror No. 284. Improved Telephone Directory In The Making". South Africa. Senator Clarkson, South African minister of Posts and Telegraphs pushes a button that set in motion a book binding machine. MS as stacks of paper move on automated machine. MSs of Senator Clarkson and Colonel Krueger, Director of South African Government printing, watching printing of theTelephone directory. MS papers moving along conveyer. MS automatic printing press. MS rolls of paper going through printing machine. MS/CU papers going through machine and being folded. MS women putting stacks of papers into binding machine. MS/CU binding machine. Shot of finished book being shot out of revolving machine. CU/MS glue machine. MS roll of gauze material running into machine for strengthening purposes. CU/MS printed pages moving through automated machine. MS men stacking bound books as they come off conveyer. CU stacks of books. MS/CU machine trimming edges off stacks of paper. CUs phone book being opened. MS stacks of phone books, man puts stack on dolly to be moved. The footage is about printing phonebooks, but images can be uses for general printing and binding. | |
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