| ORGAN Good footage of how a cinema organ is made. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7063 |
| Catalog #: | 279300 | |
| Clip Number: | 279300-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 363 | |
| Timecode: | 01:11:21 - 01:14:34 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1943 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Musical Instruments INDUSTRY: Musical Instruments LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England SCIENCE: Acoustics | |
| Description: | INSTRUMENTS Cinema Organ - Diagrams and shots of making pipes. L/Ss of man playing a cinema organ. M/S of man blowing old fashioned horn. Several good diagrammatical drawings explaining how the sound is made through the horn. M/S of scientist type man demonstrating how sound changes with different air flow. He first tap a tuning fork onto table and place it just over a glass tube, it makes a low humming sound. Some water is then poured into tube and he does the same again. This time it makes a much louder sound. C/U of young woman blowing into glass tube, a whistling sound is made. Footage of cinema organ being made. Man lifts a bowl from oven full of molten metal and pours it into a device called into a bath. The metal is spread over bench in thin sheet. It is allowed to cool before two workmen roll it up into a sheet. M/Ss of man rolling sheet metal through a hand press. Several good shots of the pipes of the cinema organ being made. M/Ss of man attaching numerous wires to inside of organ. M/Ss of machine testing the durability of musical instruments including a drum and a tambourine. L/S and M/S of man using a screwdriver on the new organ. Diagrammatical shots which explain how the air vibration is pushed through the tubes of the organ with the aid of an electrical motor. M/Ss of the man playing organ. | |
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