| The Endless Challenge | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | |
| Catalog #: | 449220 | |
| Clip Number: | 449220-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 1535 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Various Industrial Locations | |
| Year Shot: | ||
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Engines | |
| Description: | (ON PREVIEW CASSETTE# 98086) In this industrial film from the folks at Wheelaberator - Frye Incorporated we learn, albeit briefly, about the history, the reformations and the burgeoning technologies of American foundries. From the dusk of the Industrial Revolution to the semi-present (early 1980's kills our timeline), this film attempts to cover all the bases. It opens with a candid MS of an industrial-sized magnet carrying a load of metal refuse into a recycling recptacle. Then there is a foundry montage as several silent men toil and an aw-shucks narrator illustrates the image with such phrases as the foundry is "a pretty good place to work these days". Through a battery of tight LS's we see the cleaning and finishing areas within the foundry as well as virtually every other relative function. There are product shots (mostly large discs for who knows what), still montages (archival B&W photos circa 1890's of early foundry with early machines, castings, workers, etcetera) and industrial design drawings of blast wheels as of the 1980's. There is also a brief historical overview of blast cleaning and foundry life as well as countless LS's, MS's and CU's of engine blocks on production lines. | |
WPA FILM LIBRARY
