HOW ALUMINUM IS MADE A PRODUCT OF THE IMAGINATION 50694

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7 жыл бұрын

“A Product of the Imagination” is a 1960s color film by Alcoa that includes a number of splices (and places its introduction at the 08:00 mark) but is designed to educate the viewer on the soft metal aluminum. Dramatic music plays in the background at the physical beginning of the film as several various factory scenes are shown and the narrator explains how aluminum can be extracted and fit into any number of molds. The film shows several of those forms before the narrators - “Adam and Eve” - move into a discussion of bauxite, the principal ore of aluminum (mark 02:15), and how it is transformed into a compound called alumina (aluminum oxide). There are scenes from aluminum reduction plants as they film outlines obscure facts about the metal. Carbon, a byproduct of the aluminum manufacturing process, is used to create diodes and other products, as shown beginning near mark 04:55. By mark 07:00 the film glimpse “into the future” to see potential uses for the lightweight metal moving reaching the “start” of the film at mark 08:00 and a discussion how life was “in the beginning” for the Biblical figures of Adam. Eve appears on the scene at mark 08:52. But just as quickly as the characters are introduced, an awkward splice returns the action to “present day” at mark 09:38 and a scene of a farm carrying an aluminum irrigation pipe. A few seconds later the camera pans up the exterior of the Alcoa Building in Pittsburgh - “thanks to aluminum the lightest building of its kind ever built” - and at mark 10:00 we see how the windows rotate 360 degrees so they can be washed from the inside. Aluminum is used in aircraft and railways, we are told, as well as in trucks, baby strollers, highway signs, and fences. “As a woman, you’ll want to know that aluminum is non-toxic and can be used for easy-to-clean pots and pans,” Adam boasts at mark 11:25, plus flat irons, refrigerators, and ice cream scoops. “Aluminum. The most widely widely adaptable metal of all time,” he adds at mark 13:29, leading to an explanation of how aluminum can also be used in the construction of a dam. By mark 16:09, the narrator reminds us how aluminum will be used in the “world of tomorrow” as a montage of aluminum products are displayed before the film comes to an abrupt end.
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@jonathanboschen1621 5 жыл бұрын

Cool film, hopefully a complete print submerges one day; According to Business Screen Magazine this film was originally 26 minutes long and was produced by Wilding Pictures for Alcoa in 1959.

@gregorymalchuk272 3 жыл бұрын

This is a really cool film, but it must have been badly damaged and pasted back together from scraps on the cutting room floor. A lot of it is out of order.

@tabascoraremaster1 2 жыл бұрын

They have done a good job repairing it I think. Glad we can still enjoy it.

@RobertBardos 4 жыл бұрын

May I interrupt? - man “ No!”

@Anvilshock 6 жыл бұрын

Aluminum is made by misspelling Aluminium.

@kevinvernon3600 6 жыл бұрын

Contrariewise speaking, Aluminium is made my misspelling Aluminum. ;)

@Anvilshock 6 жыл бұрын

Don't be silly.

@Mikey300 7 жыл бұрын

Definitely an Alcoa production with the view of the 50000 ton Mesta press in its original form at Cleveland.

@nonovyerbusiness9517 7 жыл бұрын

I would have at least tried to properly edit this mess before posting it.

@abundantYOUniverse 6 жыл бұрын

Confound it woman!:)

@thenmymindsplitopen 4 жыл бұрын

For better or worse, they'd never make a doc like this again. "May I interrupt? No woman..." "But Adam, as a woman...."🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

@richardhead8264 4 жыл бұрын

*_11:26_**_ As a woman, let's talk about kitchen stuff._* 🤣👏

@tabascoraremaster1 2 жыл бұрын

Eve : Adam, can I interrupt ? Adam : No.

@irwinsaputra371 Жыл бұрын

@@tabascoraremaster1 oh adam is gonna be cancelled today

@rickey5353 7 жыл бұрын

I had to google the meaning of Alcoa.

@dylanp.5161 5 жыл бұрын

Confounded Woman!

@Omnihil777 6 жыл бұрын

Aluminum or Aluminium? Are there enough "I's" in Aluminum??

@holymoyses4797 6 жыл бұрын

Eve, are you listening haha

@bobw222 4 жыл бұрын

Uhhhh... get those reels in the proper sequence and try again. This is like pulling data off a checker-boarded hard drive platter from a 1970's mainframe....

@craxd1 Жыл бұрын

It's a shame that the film was edited so much that it was almost ruined.

@billmadison2032 2 жыл бұрын

With the music, I felt like I was watching the 10 commandments. I know this is stock film that you picked up but that Q&A with the woman is stupid

@thomasgoodwin2648 11 ай бұрын

Wut?!?!? This was a fantasy?!?!? How could they? That's unfair. I thought this was all real. My innocence has been shattered. My hopes of a shiny future dashed! Know Aluminum that this day you have an enemy. My revenge shall be swift and terrible. I will find some way to FOIL your plans to dominate the world! I'm going to kick your CAN to the curb! You'll wish you were still attached to the cardboard roll with little bits of stickums glue. This isn't over yet! (Please note this is just a bit humor and not the ravings of a complete lunatic... mostly.) Really enjoying seeing some of this old stuff being resurrected, but I just can't help myself when it comes to riffing them too. So much great material to work with.