Advanced Search
Volkswagen Beetle Ad
On Preview Cassette #210462 Volkswagen Beetle Ad United States nighttime LS's of an autompbile delivery truck en route to a dealership, the cargo suspiciously covered with sheets; MS of the driver as he backs the vehicle up; the VW Bug is revealed at the conclusion.
Chevy plant, exterior
On Preview Cassette #93248
Buick dealer
On Preview Cassette #93248
'55 Buick on the road
On Preview Cassette #93248
Firework, crowd
On Preview Cassette #27592
Wall street (?)
On Preview Cassette #93494
Corporate businessmen
On Preview Cassette #93494
Operating printing machine
On Preview Cassette #93494
Telephone Switchboard Operators
Telephone Switchboard Operators MCUs older women with graying hair seated at switchboard, wearing headsets wile fielding & connecting telephone calls.
Office Work - Typist
Office Work - Typist MCU woman seated at desk adorned by vase of colorful flowers, she hammers away at manual typewriter keys, smiling as she transcribes in her 1950s plaid ensemble. MCU woman in blue sweater w/ neck scarf accessory typing at desk. CU "Sales Order" moving across typewriter as order is processed. MCU woman manually feeding paper into typewriter, she is seen happily typing way at her desk. Over-the-shoulder MCU woman with hair pulled back in ponytail seated in front of typewriter, she picks up telephone receiver to answer call.
Office Copy Room
Office Copy Room MCU activity inside office copy room staring with woman operating mimeograph machine showing rotating ink drum & stacking of paper copies, next we see man grabbing printed papers from organized shelves & stapling them together, shot continues with woman operating punch machine. Similar shot repeated of the mimeograph.
Office workers
On Preview Cassette #93494
Secretarial Office Work
Secretarial Office Work CU female hand using pencil to write shorthand dictation on spiral notepad (notebook). MCU notebook on stand next to typewriter for transcribing, pan up to show desk lamp w/ bright florissant bulbs turned on.
TV Spots B/W Misc
14 miscellaneous TV spots. TV 1 ..... 00:50:02..... Tommy Thurston (a girl) for Alka Seltzer ON PREVIEW TAPE 991537 Y TV 2 ..... 00:51:20..... White Rose Gas, platinum refining TV 3 ..... 00:52:08 ..... Sholom Kosher, wine from St. Julian TV 4 ..... 00:54:13 ...... This is the Life! narrated by Lester Waddington, Alka Seltzer tennis spot TV 5 ..... 00:55:19 ..... Strahan Baby Bed, portable and collapsible TV 6 ..... 00:56:49 ..... Armstrong Quick Seal, a compound to seal and patch wall cracks TV 7 ..... 00:59:19 ..... Bill Warrick on Robinson Ice Box Cookie Roll TV 8 ..... 00:59:30 ..... Win one of six 1954 Chevrolet Bel Airs at the Spartan Stores award! TV 9 ..... puppet figure baker makes cookies for Swanson Date Filled Oatmeal TV 10 ... 01:01:00 ..... Swanson almond bar with the puppet baker TV 11 ... 01:01:30 ..... Chicken with the puppet baker for Swanson Black Walnut cookies TV 12 ... 01:02:00 ..... Gilbert's Clothing Store, narrated by Mrt Linder TV 13 ... 01:03:00 ..... BIMSCO truck delivers building specialty materials, the BIMSCO Theater opening TV 14 ... 01:03:40 ..... Merriplay playground equipment for children from Goshen Manufacturing, by Joe Mayberry, CEO TV 15 ... 01:04:20 ..... Mary Eastman for Robinson Ice Box cookies
Dodge Timken All Steel Pillow
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #98795 IV 20 min sound color 16mm film, prints from A&B rolls. Produced for Ralph Hanes, Adv mgr. Shows how and why a pillow-block bearing is made and used. Fade in on title Dodge of Mishawaka presnts Dodge Timken all steel pillow block bearing. Credits roll. Symbol of Dodge salesman. (This film portrays a typical sales meeting of the 1950's at which a manufacturer introduces a new product to the sales force). Hotel. Dodge plant as locomotive races by, into camera. Lobby, reception desk, sales meeting. President Otis, CU as he addresses the meeting. VP Harry Torson takes over, with cutaway of the new pillow block bearing. Dissolve to the shop and the testing of said bearing. Torson adresses the camera while a hand touches the bearing. Cut to wires recording the temperatures. Cut to LS test. CU cutaway of a bearing revolving on a table. Return to lab test. Torson takes over, talking to the camera. Two engineers are introduced. First engineer rotates the cutaway. Second engineer talks to the camera. Finger points to the thickness of the cutaway. First engineer shows mounting holes in ECU. Second man hits steel ring with allen wrench to make it ring. Dissolve to turret lathe operator; and a check of drawings on the bulletin board. CU of VP speaking in front of drawing. Back to engineers with cutaway. Second man points to the three degree self-alignment ability. Cut to lab demo of two units to shaft. Cut to CU bearing races, as they are matched. Tapered bore is ground on both surfaces. Return to cutaway model. Cut to ability of the part to be moved sideways, 3/8" either way. Engineer shows cahrt of load conditions. Engineer stands by cutaway drawing, which he points to. Cut to the adapter as engineer assembles the ends to the bearing. Cut to the ruler on lathe model. Cut to rotating cutaway model and show rings. Two shot of engineers showing lubrication; CU 2-shot as engineer follows lubrication channels. Point to drain plugs. CU of nameplate with instructions on it. Ralph Hanes enters with charts, puts them down and addresses camera. Describes publicity and advertising between Dodge and Timken. Shows news items on display board. Advertising layout shown. A handful of inquiries is shown . Cut to Hanes showing bulletin cover. Sample letterheads of companies requesting information as a result of the advertising. Shows the poster for counter and window display. Sales logo, 75th anniversary seal, and end titles.
First National Bank Tv
10 sec. TV spot
Zephyr Gas Tv
Six 60 sec TV spots per Norman Navan Adv
Operation 32
Preview Cassette 220739 For United Fund of St. Joseph County, IN., Calhoun Cartwright, PR. This is a fund raising film, and shows many civic charitable operations.
The Wheelabrator Abrasive Wheel
90 second 16mm sound color animation showing the wheel and abrasive action Animation by Frink; art by Norman Navan art dept. This art, verified by still photos Frink shot in a Wheelabrator cabinet, and enhanced in printing from high contrast transparencies, changed the thinking of Wheelabrator engineers concerning the shot pattern produced by the abrasive wheel. No one but Frink has been known to shoot pictures inside a blast cabinet when the equipment was operating..."Fools rush in, etc."
Wheelabrator Ram-Roll Cabinet
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #371373 Film opens with Wheelabrator logo; fade in on long shot Caterpillar assembly line as cast metal engine blocks, uncleaned, are rotating in cages; cut to closer angles as blocks are fed into the cages; pan the Wheelabrator blast cleaning cabinet; cut to engine blocks dropping into hopper after cleaning. Engine blocks coming down conveyer to be fed into the cages; follow cages as they are moved down the line; and brought into position for insertion in the cages. Shot of two men loading engine blocks onto the conveyer line. CU equipment ramming engine blocks into the cages. Different angles on this. CU of Wheelabrator blast cabinet as cleaned engine castings are dropped into totebox. Side view of cleanign cabinet as operator opens the door and camera moves inside the red cabinet--where the actual blast cleaning takes place. The blast openings are seen, and the engine blocks rotating and moving through the cleaning cabinet. (the shiny gray metal slots are the openings through which the metal shot is forced out to blast the casting). 400' 16mm color silent print on gray plastic Goldberg 400' reel in brown Plio-Magic plast 400' mailer. Frink (FFV-3) has original footage, ancillary mayterials. See also FFS-AA1285 and FFS-AA1296 for additional footage of this operation.
White-Tailed Deer
Magnificent buck deer on forested ridge in deep snow, blue sky behind him 17:00:23 button bucks on ridge in snow 17:00:46 buck having just shed antlers, see scab on pedicle, close 17:02:14 doe on ridge in deep snow 17:02:48 buck on ridge, turns back to look 17:03:38 button buck and buck with antlers just shed 17:05:52 buck on ridge in deep snow, super alert 17:07:48 buck with antlers just shed 17:08:19 magnificent buck on ridge 17:08:43 doe chewing cud
Alki-therm
ON PREVIEW TAPE 991537 AA Sales/docmentary on manufacure and use of O'Brien Paint Corp's Alki-Therm paint. 5 min 16mm sound color film fade in on the O'Brien logo and main titles. Dissolve from paint labels to crystals. Dissolve to mixing paint, uses of paint-- trailers, homes, cars, airplanes, huge storage tank. Dissolve to O'Brien truck pulling up to the front of the O'Brein plant and pan the plant exterior. Tilt up a high chimney. Down to rail tank car and the back of a truck. Front door of the plant. A scientist checks paint in a laboratory with a montage of testing equipment. Football touchdown; men study papers. Old fashioned paint label, 1906. 1920, titanium vial is added.Cassein paints. 1933, thermolyzation process. 1941, rubberized paint is added. 1954, Alkyd is added. Pan bottles of Alkyds. Cut to Herb True, the narrator, surrounded by colored flasks. Cut to a crystal of alkyd, as Herb shows them. Cut to a technician adjusting equipment in a laboratory. Cut to a Veriac transformer being adjusted. Cut to glassware in the lab as chemicals burn and bubble in them. Pipette. A handful of dirt is spilled, becomes the atom bomb, and back to the crystals of alkyds. O'Brein perfect wall paint label. Lab experiments with beakers, flasks, colors changing, men studying the results, rejecting attempts until-- time passes as the calendar pages shift-- dealer shakes his head, more rejections, cut to red paint rollers as colors are ground, lab tests of fineness, vats of paint, mixing of green, blue, gray, more rejections... more lab test equipment; more calendars, more rejections, book closed... reopened for study. Try thermolyzation, cut to the unti and art of tanks, showing the coils heated and cooled, in animated sequence. Cartoon character pints the way. Back to the thermolyzation tanks, reopneing the notebooks and back to the lab. Final "approved" stampon the last test. Alki-Therm label. Paint can stop motion to front. Tiltes describe the paint. Dissolve to room interior, a bedroom, with a woman fixing her hair at a mirror. Dissolve to professional painter with a brush, then a roller. Viscosity test in a lab. Lab stirring. Painter covering dark wall with light paint. Pan the "hiding charts" to show how well paint covers the black background. Woman paints but the phone rings so she stops painting, resuming after the call has ended. White spotting panel with two surfaces, porous and non-porous, and the paint covers the two surfaces smoothly. Painter in office finishes his work and leaves while the office workers continue to work with windows closed and no paint fumes. Lab with chemist adjusting glassware. Cut to a baby in crib putting jam on wallpaper; her mother wipes it off with a sponge. Standard laboratory scrubbing machine shows how paint holds up to scrubbing. Woman puts nail into a wall to hang a picture up. No problem! Scientist bends a piece of metal to show the cracking of paints. Cut to display of colors against the wall as a color stylist talks to a customer. The intermixes are shown. Cut to home furnishings magazines, samples od carpets and fabrics and paint swatches. CU of the stylist. In the plant, drawers of different color pigments are opened. Scientist at eyepiece matches colors. FI on plant interior and exterior of three plants. Adjustment of lab equipment. Mixing paints in the plant. Various valves and tanks, pan as the operator adjusts a flow of chemicals. Drum rollers. Color changes on mixing rollers. Colored paint flows into can, finished cans of paint come down the conveyor belt. Warehouse stacks of paint for shipment and back to the O'Brien truck. Dissolve to store front with O'Brien neon sign. Display of magazine ads, dealer displays, color cards, film projector, newspaper ads and paint labels. Summary montage repeats earlier scenes briefly... cut to President J.J. Crowley, speaking into camera. Paint can, O'Brien logo, mixing paint colors in vats. The End. (EDIT NOTE FROM FRINK: THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL FILMS I MADE AND IN MANY WAYS IT IS TYPICAL OF THE INDUSTRIAL FILM OF THAT ERA ALTHOUGH I DID MANAGE TO AVOID THE POINTLESS DANCING GIRL SEQUENCE THAT WAS MANDATORY IN MANY FILMS OF THAT PERIOD. "ALKI-THERM" IS A BIT OVERBLOWN. THE WORLD DOES NOT REALLY REVOLVE AROUND HOUSE-PAINT, AS IN THE POMPOUS OPENING NARRATOR WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE, AND IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS IMPERATIVE FOR THE OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY TO BE ON SCREEN, WHETHER THEY WERE CONVINCING ACTORS OR NOT. ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING SEQUENCES HERE ON THE MANUFACTURE AND TESTING OF PAINT IN THE INDUSTRIAL AMERICA OF THAT ERA.
CTS Institutional Film
Institutional film for CTS-- a cut-down version of films FFS-AA1028 and FFS-AA1029, cutting out most manufacturing, history and background of the variable resistor. Fade in on the CTS logo and dissolve to the titles. This is an edited version of "manufacturing Millions of Variable Resistors", with emphasis on the management structure rather than design and manufacturing of the resistor. There are no scenes in this film that are not in FFS-AA1028 and FFS-AA1029.
Bactine Tv
Development and use of Bactine, a Miles Laboratories home antiseptic product.