Hill & Knowlton Ingersoll “The I-Drive Line”

Ingersoll Machine Tools is a manufacturer located in Rockford, Illinois that produces large scale machine tools for use in metal cutting and automated fiber placement. This is a sponsored film about Ingersoll Machine Tools, or more specifically, the company's I-Line technology which eliminates the need for motors, belts, switches and hydraulic cylinder on the company's large-scale cutting tools. Through the use of factory footage, animation and interviews with Ingersoll upper management and engineering teams, the film highlights the benefits of this space saving I-line technology as well as the Ingersoll machines use of micro processing.

Credits

Goldsholl Design & Film Associates (contributor); Phil James (participant); Tom Lindem (participant); Fred Wilson (participant); Dennis Bray (participant)

Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1981
Cfa collection: Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection
Sponsor: Hill & Knowlton Ingersoll
Subjects: Industry; Industrial design; Factories
Places: North America > United States
Language: English
Cfa elements: Distribution Print, 600 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/6236

Sources

  1. Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video