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Making IBM Equipment

Making IBM Equipment
Clip: 370993_1_1
Year Shot: 1945 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 591
Original Film: 217-19
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Timecode: 03:04:42 - 03:12:53

Various shots of IBM tabulation machine equipment being manufactured by American labor. Good industrial footage. Excellent shots of numbers being crunched.

Making IBM Equipment
Clip: 370993_1_2
Year Shot: 1945 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 591
Original Film: 217-19
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Timecode: 03:04:42 - 03:06:47

CU Caucasian man (note the wedding ring on his finger) using pressure-calibrating tool on partially assembled tabulating machine. MCU gears of machine being washed (lubricated) by internal hose, brownish liquid is emanating from hose. CU several extremely small gears, bits, washer rings, etc., against blue BG, a book of red-tipped matches on screen left used to show relative scale size, the matches appearing massive in comparison. CU blue-tipped wood match stick & several small machine bits against green BG. MCU gray haired Caucasian man wearing glasses, smoking pipe in mouth, operating small gear-washing machine. Profile MCU middle-aged white woman operating drill press for stamping operation in factory. MS machine spraying brownish liquid on gear, man walks into frame to twists knob.

Making IBM Equipment
Clip: 370993_1_3
Year Shot: 1945 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 591
Original Film: 217-19
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Timecode: 03:06:47 - 03:09:38

CU hands of white man using screwdriver to test the rolling sequence numbers of tabulator machine. MS Caucasian woman wearing black dress operating tabulating machine in office, potted tree in BG. Nice CU numbers moving on tabulating machine. CU fingers pushing number keys on keyboard of tabulating machine (book keeping, accounting, crunching numbers). CU piece of tabulating machine being pressure-calibrated. ECU small number ring, washers & gears. ECU gear with ruler above it showing it's about half an inch in size. MS white woman wearing orange overcoat operating machine press in factory. CUs numbers being tabulated on machine, hand punching number keys.

Making IBM Equipment
Clip: 370993_1_4
Year Shot: 1945 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 591
Original Film: 217-19
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Timecode: 03:09:38 - 03:12:52

ECU very small gear with ruler showing it's less than a half-inch in size. ECU two small gears with blue-tipped wood match to offer size comparison. ECU several small washers & bolts with a copper Lincoln penny minted 1945 to offer size comparison, the one-cent penny dwarfing the items. MS/CUs Caucasian woman wearing orange coat operating stamping press machine. Over the shoulder MCU white man operating soldering machine, fusing end pieces to numbers rack. MS man at strange machine washing gears. MS/MCU old white man wearing glasses pouring bucket of fine silver objects into bowled tray, weighing small portions on scale. CU woman operating stamping press. CU hands of white man using screwdriver to test number sequence of tabulation machine. CU tabulation machine, number buttons being pushed on keyboard.