Bats and Balls: Making Baseball Bats
Bats and Balls: Making Baseball Bats
06.00.21.- MS employee inspecting & stacking baseball bats. 06.01.09.- MS employee placing bats on a sanding machine. CU's bats being sanded. 06.05.41.- CU bats traveling lengthwise along a conveyor belt. 06.06.15.- MS's employee cutting off ends of baseball bats, stacking them on dolly. 06.08.55.- pannning tight LS's of factory floor, employees manning machines. 06.09.46.- MS/CU's employee passing bats through blue acetylene flames (searing the wood grain). 06.14.26.- MS's employee dipping bats into blue paint; pan R to employee stacking lacquered bats. 06.18.15.- MS's lacquered bats hanging from slow-moving traveling drying line. MS employee pulling them off. 06.19.10.- MS employee dipping bats into whitish paint. MS employee pulling bats off drying line. 06.21.33.- MS black-dipped bats on traveling line. MS lacquered bats on drying line. 06.22.50.- CU lacquered bats. MS bats on drying line. Wide MS of same. 06.23.46.- MS/CU's employee burning Rawlings emblem onto baseball bats. 06.27.15.- MS's employee painting stripes on bats, then burning emblems. 06.32.00.- panning MS of finished bats in storage bins. MS's employee placing bats into boxes for shipping. 06.35.18.- MS's & CU's baseball bats being machine-shaped and formed. Fascinating. Hypnotic. 06.55.02.- MS cut bats awaiting further cutting. More MS's of machine cutting bats. CU's machine operator.