Making The Synchrophase In Grebeland

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Summary: early radio-building factory industrial film. Sequences of machine parts being manufactured, both factory floor long views and close-ups of hands performing manual assembly and machine operation. Both men and women pictured working in factory environment. Women's shots are time logged below.; Time in; Factory exterior, four-story building with huge multi-pane windows.; 1:35:53:21; Title: “Making Vernier Wheels”; 01:35:57:26 - 01:36:24:25; Man in industrial gloves hammers machine parts into what looks like cupcake molds. Uses hammer to place parts in cup molds, adds powder, presses into form and hammers; 01:36:24:26 - 01:36:31:20; Bird’s eye POV of factory room floor. A dozen men work at identical machines.; 01:36:31:21; Title: “Punch presses cut and form metal parts of synchrophase”; 01:36:39:17; Long view of different factory room floor. Men sit on chairs in front of workstations equipped with controls and huge belt arrays.; Close up of machine stamping.; Title: “High speed automatic press punching out audio transformer parts; Two men in aprons operate a large automatic punch machine.; Close up of punch machine.; Title: “Automatic screw machines at work:”; Man at belt-driven machine.; Close-up of belt-driven machine.; Title: “Checking the part for accuracy”; Title: “Fine sets require fine tools; Long view of factory floor crowded with dense machines and with men.; Title: “Grinding transformer die.”; Grinder at work.; Title: Shaping steel plate for drill jig.”; close up of machine shaving a groove in a plate of metal.; Title: “machining drill jig plate”; Man operates automatic machine.; “Nickel plating various parts of synchrophase”; Scene: man in work apron dips objects into vats.; Man uses wrench to adjust a belt-driven machine.; Man holds bolts in gloved hand.; 01:40:08:25; “Assembling Grebe-made parts”; 01:40:12:28; -Women workers sit at assembly benches. Long view looking down the center of a work table with facing workstations: over a dozen women at work. Male overseers stand by windows in suits.; -Bird’s eye POV of room full of women workers.; 01:40:32:23; Title: “winding rheostat element”; Woman (partial view_ at work bench.; Young woman at workbench, operating wheel.; “The endless conveyor carries on”; bird’s eye POV of women at work at benches on a factory floor.; 01:41:31:08; bird’s eye POV of men at work at benches on a factory floor, with huge conveyor belt in front of them.; “The Unit Control”; male hands fit chains around a belt array. Small-format.; “Putting the synchrophase ‘on the air’”; Bird’s eye POV of men at factory floor, looks like final finishing assembly.; Man puts light bulbs into the machine.; View of front of machine with dials and knobs.; Packing sequence: one man at a packing station wrapping it and boxing it and pushing it down a conveyor belt.; Final shipping boxes labeled “Synchrophase Radio Braodcast Recever.”; View of man looking at catalog advertisements.; Views of flat bed truck (very old, very quaint) being loaded with boxes of radios for shipment. Truck cab is stylized and riveted with multi-pane windows. Very unique-looking.; Men at desks make absurd silly faces into the camera.