Automatic Welding System

Duration: 17:31

Year Published: 1970s

Sound: sound

Description: Presented by the H.C. Price Company, this 1970s industrial film introduces the company’s new automatic pipeline welding system. Price is primarily an oil and natural gas pipeline construction company. H.C. Price formed the company as the Electric Welding Company in 1921. The company was based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, until 1981, when it moved its headquarters to Dallas. Robert Yarnall Richie, who produced and directed this film, was a freelance industrial photographer and filmmaker who worked with various large corporations in Texas and around the globe.