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Factory

12:48–13:15

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Frame at 12:5112:51Frame at 13:0313:03Frame at 13:0613:06Frame at 13:1313:13

Play from 12:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 139–144. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
factory (factory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in overalls and cap, standing at a machine visible
  • man in overalls and cap, welding or working near a large cylinder visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing near large machinery visible
Seen happening
  • A worker operates a planing machine on a large metal plate. [frame:1]
  • A worker welds or works near a large cylindrical metal section. [frame:2]
  • A large metal cylinder is shown in a factory setting with workers nearby. [frame:3]
  • Massive cylindrical pipe sections are shown in a factory, with workers present. [frame:4]
Also said
“and rolled into circular form.” 12:59 · “formed a ring 30 feet in diameter” 13:11
Seen
planing machine [frame:1], large metal plates [frame:1], giant press [frame:2], cylindrical pipe sections [frame:3, frame:4], welding equipment [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: industrial and methodical; themes: industrial manufacturing, heavy engineering, scale of industrial production; style notes: static medium and wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white, functional lighting emphasizing machinery and scale

Workers operate heavy machinery to shape, bend, and roll large metal plates into massive cylindrical pipe sections inside a factory. The transcript explains that three such plates form a ring 30 feet in diameter and 11 feet long.

“Edges of the dimension plates were shaped on a planing machine to assure precision and accuracy of later steps in their manufacture.” 12:48 · “They were bent on a giant press” 12:57 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

US Government work The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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