| MAP MAKING This film shows the processes involved in producing Ordnance Survey Maps. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6034 |
| Catalog #: | 502764 | |
| Clip Number: | 502764-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 336 | |
| Timecode: | 01:08:59 - 01:12:43 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | COMPUTERS: Calculators COMPUTERS: Misc. LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England MAPS PLANS CHARTS: Cartography | |
| Description: | MAP MAKING This film shows the processes involved in producing Ordnance Survey Maps. Various brief shots illustrating the changing countryside; a tree being felled; workman at a table looking at plans while another holds a pneumatic drill beside a 'Road Works Ahead' sign; a man on a machine chucking up earth; a large pipe being lowered into the ground; a new (and nearly empty) motorway (this is from CP 325 - 300 M.P.H. Road). Various shots of Bert Smith using a tellurometer; a machine with a kind of aerial dish on the front that measures distances through sound waves for ordnance survey maps; another man sits at the 'speaker' of the machine and makes notes. Three men are seen at adding machines in an Ordnance Survey office; a girl feeds some cards into an IBM computerised sorting machine. Various shots of Dennis Braten using a stereo plotting machine which traces a 6 inch scale map from an aerial photographic plate. On a field by a parked Land Rover, Norman Facey uses a sight rule on a 6 inch detail survey and draws across the map. In another Ordnance Survey office, some men are seen working on very detailed maps; panning C/U of one of the maps. M/Ss and C/Us as a draughtsman tracing hill outlines on wax-coated glass; very exacting work! M/S as two men fix a map into position on a wall; an elderly man, George Dart, operates a huge camera to take a copy of the map. From the negatives, zinc printing plates are etched out; M/S of a printing plate being loaded into a printer. Comical M/S of Joe Hollingsworth mixing some red ink on a table; it looks like ketchup! M/Ss of the maps being printed. M/S of a couple, Janet and Alan Franks in a village looking at a Ordnance Survey map then walking off. | |
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