Better Work Methods (Reel 4) (silent)

Description: Survey of industrial work methods and guidance towards remedy of wasted operator time and motion. Includes case studies on worker time assembling door knobs and cast iron plates, burring holes in angle plates, and soldering wire to copper strips.

Reel 4, Sections 12-15

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Subjects: 1940s, Industry, Labor, Manufacturing

Tags: industrial assembly; Taylorism; scientific management; time studies; capitalism; workers; women's labor; factories; efficiency; workflows; hardware; power wrench; doorknobs; soldering; foot pedals; time and motion study; work simplification; small parts assembly and sorting; timer clock inset in frame

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Creator: Ralph M. Barnes

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives, Ralph M. Barnes Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1944

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Genre/Form: educational, industrial, research

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 351