| THERMOMETERS being manufactured | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7166 |
| Catalog #: | 105889 | |
| Clip Number: | 105889-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 451 | |
| Timecode: | 01:02:47 - 01:05:26 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1953 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Equipment INDUSTRY: Glass LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England OCCUPATIONS: Factory Workers OCCUPATIONS: Women | |
| Description: | THERMOMETERS being manufactured Wealdstone, Middlesex. Various shots of thermometers being made in a factory. SCS. Large lump of molten glass being removed from furnace. (Glass has already been dipped in white coloured glass). MS Carrying molten glass on steel tube over to another man who attaches another tube - lifts glass over bucket and pours water over it. SCS. Pouring water over the moulten glass. MS The two men begin walking away from each other and stretching the glass. MS Man on left walking backwards. MS Other man walking backwards. MS Left handman turns the glass over. MS The stretched glass dropping on to the ladder laying on the floor. MS SCS. Man breaks off glass at end of ladder . Another man begins cutting the long length of glass into sections. MS Man cutting length of glass into sections another man walks into pictures and takes away lengths of glass. CS. Placing the newly cut lengths on a bench. MS CS. Girl pushing length of glass back and forth through a guage. CS. The guage giving a reading with the glass being passed through it. Merton, London. At a thermometer factory we see a woman at a table breaking the glass into small sections. CS. Showing tools she uses for breaking the glass. SCS. Girl holding length of glass in a flame presumably to close the end up. & CS. CS. Her face as she works. MS Another woman walks over to a table carrying some lengths of glass. SCS. Sitting in front of machine. CS. Machine or rack. CS. Dipping several lengths of glass into wax. CS. Placing the above in the rack. CU Man. MS Calibrating machine. Man puts the thermometer into machine and machine calibrates it. CU Number of girls seated at bench. SCS. Girl rubbing black liquid onto a thermometer. BCS. Girl rubbing black liquid onto a thermometer, showing the measurements now on the thermometer. SCS. Woman counting the thermometers into batches and placing them into boxes. MS Woman places a box of thermometers on a bench where another woman is working. CS. Woman wrapping these thermometers in paper and sliding them into a metal tube. CS. Pile of thermometers. | |
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