“ Pontiac Pours it On”

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1960

Complete Record: Sequence of steel foundry, forging auto cylinder blocks, auto body assembly, finished Pontiac rolls off assembly line, young execs / engineers with clip boards inspect car, shots of car sold and driving out of dealership Full Synopsis Opening shots, molten steel, casting plant. Workers Stoking fires and various shots of pouring metal. Presses pressing. titles - cartoony. revolving metal, metal shaving buffing, drilling. operator at console with many blinking lights and switches, little drill like objects going into little holes in the engine block. CU drilling, worker doing spot checks. assembly line. lots of shots of large machinery sliding and rotating and moving around, now cam shafts. CU strange spinning grinding, suit men walking through factory briefly, wet drilling looked milky, various CU of sensors and gauges and lights, glasses worker flipping switches on console, Woman working at the factory, sorting parts. Lady franticly hanging parts on wrack, more workers doing the same thing, lots of workers checking parts. dials and gauges, More people working, 2 nerdy guys, black lady. More robotic parts moving around, nice shot of lots of hanging bumpers, bumpers getting cleaned with lots of little hoses. Painting parts - hoods. Finishing paint. Body plant. “Land of the Giants” Really large machinery, sparks flying, parts moving around, clamping, drilling. Interiors, people manufacturing interiors, sewing machines. Arty reflections on mirrors and glossy painted metal. Speedometer check. Dash checks. Nice POV from side of car as it moves through tracks in factory. Women with beehive with mullet going through paper work and pushing buttons. Cars on individual carriers, headlamp check. Car lots.