Cycolac
1960s - Cycolac - Opening Meeting
Name plate and title identifying R.A. Harrison, Purchasing (Head of Purchasing Department) with Harrison holding business card; pan up to Harrison reading business card of Charles Logan of Marbon Chemicals Division. Pan to Charles Logan appreciating Harrison taking the time to see him. Harrison is forthright that the company has soured on plastics and explains why. Logan counters that he has yet to try Cycolac. He produces a brochure, but wants to provide a visual presentation, bringing out a portable television.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Introduction
An industrial film within an industrial film. Montage: Superimposed adult Caucasian male football player crouched on a knee, fade to football game with punt occurring in the endzone; arms of an adult Caucasian female holding purse as red rotary telephone falling from table to floor; woman's arms snapping typewriter case into place. Metal cutout of a beaker with different colors; Cycolac title card superimposed with green, blue, and green plastics blocks that represent "tough", "hard", and "rigid". Caucasian female child strapping on metal roller skates on street curb. Plastic corrugated shutters. Luggage. Cycolac products on display in a showroom. Numerous beakers filled with beautifully colored plastic pellets, superimposed over each other. Steering wheel and dashboard of a car. Woman wearing black stockings and orange-red pumps against black BG. Accounting tabulation machine being used by an adult Caucasian female hand.
1960s - Cycolac - Locations, Productions
Starting from city street level, pan up Borg-Warner office building in Chicago, Illinois; Borg-Warner sign. Marbon Chemical - B-W - Borg-Warner sign. VS of Marbon Chemical industrial compound in Washington, West Virginia. Palettes of brown bags partially obscure a middle-aged Caucasian man operating forklift, carrying a palette of stacked brown bags outdoors. Man, wearing white t-shirt, orange hard hat, operating industrial mixer. Man, wearing yellow hard hat, manning industrial plastic milling machine. Long length sheet of plastic being cooled in water. Several beakers of colored plastic beads spinning on Lazy Susan, passing camera. Beakers of colored plastic beads on display.
1960s - Cycolac - Products
Various products attached to pegboard next descriptions associated with Cycolac products: Blender, High Gloss Finish; Helmet, Tough; Motor, High Heat Distortion Resistance; Kidde Pump, Chemical and Stain Resistance; Electrical Components, Good Electrical Properties, Megaphone, Superior Impact Resistance; Plastic Cover, Withstands Sub-Zero Temperature; General Electric Radio, Lightweight-Rigid. Cycolac display showing items that use their products; rotating displays. Pan over further products that are associated with Cycolac; trays, carrying cases, typewriters, tote boxes, pumps, pressurized cannisters. Young adult Caucasian woman opening suitcase in yellow lighting studio filled with luggage. Pan up of a few automotive parts. Car door arm rest, with ashtray. Center pillar post. Air conditioner ducts. Steering wheel, dashboard; zoom in to speedometer. Display of high pressure plumbing pipes on pegboard.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Pipes
Adult Caucasian male carrying load of twenty foot pipe on road median construction area, putting it down, and taking one piece to the curb; another adult Caucasian male approaches him. Close-up of pipes being brushed with bonding cement, inserted into valve joint; sprinkler head is installed. Sprinkler system being activated, watering grassy median area.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Home Products
Panning empty kitchen; roller skates on kitchen counter. Panning same kitchen minus objects made of Cycolac. Roller skates appear on kitchen counter. Zoom-in on empty shelf; General Electric Transistor Radio appears. Zoom in to empty kitchen wall; kitchen utensils appear hanging on wall. Zoom-in to empty corner of kitchen counter; blender appears. Zoom in to kitchen wall; white wall rotary telephone appears. Zoom-in to kitchen wall; swing-way wall-mounted can opener appears. Hoover vacuum cleaner appears (floor washer). Refrigerator; door both open and closed (no food inside). Pan down refrigerator door. Hoover tank-type vacuum cleaner appears in closet. O-Cedar dust mop appears. Homelite riding lawnmower on display. Adult Caucasian man attaching front metal shroud onto hood of Homelite mower. Adult Caucasian men assembling riding lawnmowers in Homelite Mower Car factory.
1960s - Cycolac - Meeting
R.A. Harrison, Purchasing (Head of Purchasing Department) asks Charles Logan of Marbon Chemicals Division to stop the film; he picks up red phone, asks his secretary, Marge, to connect him to Jim, a design engineer. Harrisons speaks to Jim, jokes with him, asks him to come into the office to "watch a movie" and being along Joe, the molding superintendent. Harrison hangs up, tells Logan that he's invited some other men. Logan asks for Harrison's reaction to the film so far. Harrison likes it, but noticed some mistakes. Logan admits that the film should highlight that many Cycolac products are always visible. Logan informs Harrison he just used a Cycolac product, the telephone. Western Electric call director (multi-line rotary phone). Hands of adult Caucasian woman typing on Remington typewriter. Photocopy machine. Jim and Joe enter, greet Logan. Harrison gives Jim a booklet. The men discuss Cycolac; Logan presents a manual with detailed processing conditions.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Properties
R.A. Harrison, Purchasing (Head of Purchasing Department) in a meeting with Jim, design engineer, Joe, molding superintendent, and Charles Logan of Marbon Chemicals Division talking about Cycolac. One of men asking Logan for a sample, which he retrieves while Harrison notes that the man is leaning on a sample now; the Victor Adding Machine. Logan adds that parts of the dictating machine are also made with Cycolac. Logan provides a sample molding/casing of a telephone. Men gather behind the desk to continue watching the Cycolac movie through the portable television. Metal cutout of a beaker with different colors; green, blue, and green plastics blocks that represent "Tough", "Hard", and "Rigid". Favorable Cycolac properties: "Cubic Inch Per Dollar", "Impact-Room Temperature", "Impact-Low Temperature (-40 F)", "Tensile Modulus", "Heat Deflection Temperature 264 PSI", "Hardness-Rockwell R".
1960s - Cycolac - Chart Comparisons
Graphic with colored bars representing "Plastics Used For Comparison" which include: Nylon, Acetal Resin, Celluose Acetate Butyrate, Celluose Acetate, Modified Acrylic, Cycolac GS, Polypropylene, Linear Polyethylene, High-Impact Syrene. Bar graphs comparing plastics on basis of Cubic Inch Per Dollar, Impact-Room Temperature, Impact-Low Temperature (-40 F), Heat Reflection Temperature 264 PSI, Tensile Modulus, Hardness-Rockwell R, and Cumulative Properties Comparison Chart of Cycolac vs 8 Different Plastics.
1960s - Cycolac - Product Testing
Graphic with colored bars representing Cumulative Properties Comparison Chart of Cycolac vs 8 Different Plastics. Adult Caucasian male Marbon technician working in quality control laboratory; watching tensile strength test on plastic. Plastic stretched, breaking. Technician pressure-dropping metal balls on plastic samples. Technician applying severance test. Technician testing processing method by emptying brown bag into chute of a large machine. Sheet of plastics processed through metal rollers. Technician placing large plastics sheet into a machine that pressure-forming refrigerator door lining; technician removes mold from machine. Technician picking up plastic mold, adjusting dial on large machine. Machine-testing of plastic high heels. Adult Caucasian women's feet, wearing heels, walking down city street; woman modeling pumps superimposed over them. Technician setting-up and performing long-term burst test.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Product
Adult Caucasian male technician running plastic color test on circular mill, adding white powder and color to mill. Technician molding color chips and comparing them to match color quality. Hand lining up three red plastic card/chips, testing color fidelity against different lighting. Beakers filled with colorful pellets moving past camera; "Tough", "Hard" & "Rigid" animations superimposed. Adult Caucasian male dumping brown bag of Cycolac product into chute at the top of a machine that creates Victor adding machine housings at Borg-Warner plant in Lyons, Illinois. Adult Caucasian woman removing adding machine housing from machine, takes it to work station to hammer, trim, and stamp. Victor adding machine housings.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Products
Adult Caucasian female assembling transistor radios at Arvin assembly plant in Columbus, Indiana. Woman soldering transistor radio parts at work station; transistor radio housing passing by on conveyor belt. Woman placing completed radio on slow moving conveyor belt. Woman placing transistor radio into black protective carrying case, then placing that case in a larger metal box. Machine rotating plastic sheets, stamping out refrigerator door liners at Philco plant in Connersville, Indiana. Adult Caucasian men working with refrigerator door liners on assembly line. Men placing liners on refrigerator door, hammering insulation liner around edges. Man attaching refrigerator door to refrigerator. Parked freight cars; Refrigerated freight car doors closing; Cycolac fleet interior door liners.
1960s - Cycolac - Cycolac Products
Adult Caucasian female sitting at work station in Western Electric telephone factory, placing rotary dials into machine press. Woman removing telephone housings from machine. Gloved hand hitting handsets molds into place in molding machinery; machine lifts and lowers producing pink telephone handsets which are taken out. Hands remove excess molding from telephone handsets for recycling, use in other molding. Woman standing in midst of stacks of telephone receiver housings, hanging them on traveling conveyor hooks. Beakers filled with different colors of plastics pieces. Cycolac product display; some displays rotating. "Tough", "Rigid", "Hard" animation. Female hands snaps typewriting housing into place. Graphic with colored bars representing Cumulative Properties Comparison Chart of Cycolac vs 8 Different Plastics. Machine part recedes to reveal waiting adult Caucasian female. Telephone falling from kitchen counter; woman clutching bag.
1960s - Cycolac - Meeting
R.A. Harrison, Purchasing (Head of Purchasing Department) in a meeting with Jim, design engineer, Joe, molding superintendent, and Charles Logan of Marbon Chemicals Division standing and watching Cycolac film from portable television. George, Sales Manager, enters office, offers stunned look, excuses himself. Harrison tells him to stay and introduces George to Logan, who then tries to sell him on Cycolac. Harrison brings up cost, and Logan admits Cycolac isn't as cheap as their current product, but they'll save on costs in the long run because there's less waste, more durability, and it is lightweight, allowing for more production per pound. Cycolac can even be used to replace metal diecast parts, which would save twenty percent.
1960s - Cycolac - Meeting
R.A. Harrison, Purchasing (Head of Purchasing Department) in a meeting with Jim, design engineer, Joe, molding superintendent, George, the Sales Manager, and Charles Logan of Marbon Chemicals Division where he sells them on Cycolac superior quality helping them save money in the long run and burnish the company's reputation. They agree to receive samples to test out the product for themselves; credits superimposed.