Streamlines

Creator: Handy (Jam) Organization

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: STREAMLINES ADD TO THE SAFETY, ECONOMY & COMFORT OF THE MODERN AUTOMOBILE AS WELL AS TO THE BEAUTY.; kids swimming – shot of 3 kids calling offscreen kids into water; slomo of adult male diver into pool; underwater shot of long thin fish swimming; people outside office building fighting back against strong wind; Pan following pelicans and gulls swimming onto and around pier; VS birds flying; Wind tunnel sequence shot from insi Topics: model plane tested in windstream to observe action of air currents; Engineer looking at airspeed meter; Man lecturing how motion pictures are taken of liquid movement in an air stream to record air currents; Aluminum dust added to liquid – man spreads it in small pool; Camera cranes down to show wedge in current cutting through liquid; CUs of nonstreamlined and streamlined shapes – abstract, good; Flat side of triangle resists air and liquid flow; Sphere shown; Egg-shaped body showing resistance; Wing-shaped body with fewer eddies; Streamlined body with blunt nose and tapering rear, geometric design (parabola); Lots of abstract shapes shown in fluid which depicts airflow around these bodies; High angle pan looking down on busy city street showing traffic (good); Hand drawing shapes on blackboard; Animation of streamlined city of future, where cars can go 100 miles per hour (good); Hand drawing pencil renderings of streamlined features of 1937automobiles – wipe in and out of actual features shown on a current-model 1937 car (this happens five or six times with different features); Running shot of 1937 Chevrolet from different angles; Circular wipe to Chevy hubcap and end title