| WONDER DRUG Pfizer plant produces new antibiotic terramycin | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6004 | |
| Catalog #: | 139088 | |
| Clip Number: | 139088-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 49 | |
| Timecode: | 01:44:05 - 01:46:51 | |
| Location: | Folkestone, Kent | |
| Year Shot: | 1955 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | DRUGS: Pharmaceuticals INDUSTRY: Factories, Misc INDUSTRY: Pharmaceuticals LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Kent SCIENCE: Experiments | |
| Description: | WONDER DRUG Manufacturing the antibiotic drug terramycin - -close shots of all steps of the process, at a plant of the major drug company "Pfizer". Folkestone, Kent MS operators being dressed in protective clothing (white outfits with hoods going over their heads and shoulders, goggles to protect eyes - -a bit funny looking). CU Girl operator dressed in eye goggles. MS operators having their uniforms checked they walk out of camera. MS Showing the shifts changing over: we see the new team walk into the lab and the workers ending their shift leave, all are indistinguishable in those white outfits. CU Sample of drug being checked and weighed. CU Head and shoulders of operator. CU operator's hands checking and weighing the yellow powder. MS Check-weighing operator camera pans down to hands tapping drug into scales. MS Sterilizing oven: workers pull a cart with trays of Sterilized bottles out of oven. Reverse shot of bottles being drawn out of oven. CU Bottle coming out of oven. Finishing with CU of bottles on trolley. MS Showing bottle filling machine. One of the workers creating a batch of pharmaceuticals, pours a bunch of the powdered drug into a container ("hopper"). CU Powder being put into hopper , then lid is put on hopper. CU Showing filling apparatus mixing drug, through the glass sides can see powder being churned around. MS Operator placing rubber corks on bottles after filling the bottles are on a round machine which rotates as she puts lids on. BCU Apparatus mixing drug. CU Operator putting corks into filled bottles. BCU Operator showing mask and goggles. CU Hands placing stoppers on filled bottles. MS man in white coat working in lab; behind him are rows of bottles on shelves; camera pans to a younger woman lab assistant using chemical balance conducting an experiment. MCU then CU of the woman using chemical balance. CU her Head and shoulders. CU brownish liquid bubbling in a flask which is clamped onto a pole, and has a tube going into it and Bunsen burner beneath it heating it; behind it is the man lab worker; cam pans down to surface of lab bench. CU Copper bin revolving polishing pills, the finished product. | |
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