Inside Story, The

Duration: 15 min

Creator: Jam Handy

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Includes: 1950 Chevrolet assembly line footage (EXCELLENT), early 1950s; family in car driving on country road, cute little girl in front seat.; Americana: 1950 Chevrolet stops at roadside restaurant ("Western Bar-B-Q; Cheeseburgers" signs on restaurant), man gets out of car. Highway road; tests: shock absorbers, brakes, slamming doors, etc., good "teamwork" shot; group of six men flip over a Chevrolet that has overturned...and the car is; driven away.; 02:15:32:5 Great shot woman in one-piece bathing suit jumps off wood plank diving board, does a flip, and enters the lake in a dive, as soon as woman enters water shot is rewound, audio track “Here is something we have all seen in the movies, yes just a little reverse English on the camera.”; 02:15:46:08 CU speedometer of 1950 Chevrolet hitting almost 50 mph, VS 1950 Chevrolet towed so that half the car will hit a wood ramp flipping the car on its side, great POV shot from car looking back at empty Chevrolet being towed into the ramp and the Chevrolet turning on its side in midair as it hits the ramp.; 02:16:53:22 Man buffing the body of a 1950 Chevrolet moving down GM factory assembly line, the Fischer body division of General Motors, the largest manufacturer of automobile bodies at that time.; 02:17:23:06 VS workers in GM factory producing the steel Fisher bodies of cars, two men working at huge steel press, one man with cigarette hanging from his mouth, mechanical arm passes steel floor panels of Fisher car bodies passing worker onto conveyor line, machine adds cross-braces and girders are added to the floor panel, great shot of two workers adding cross-bracing to car body, the cowl and dash assemble, great shot large mechanical arms operated by workers welding instrument panel of car, sparks fly, huge press operated by workers shapes the Chevrolet turret top of vehicle, VS welders, many with cigarettes hanging from their mouths, welding together the steel structure of the Chevrolet Fischer body moving up assembly line.; 02:19:21:04 Great tracking shot looking back at man driving 1950 Chevrolet with boy in front passenger seat, great shot from inside driving car, pans over from driver seat to boy in passenger seat.; 02:20:13:02 Great stop-motion animation illustrating how three piece of steel are melded into one, man steps out of car, boy about 12 years old exits front passenger seat, man walks around car and opens backseat door for wife and daughter to exit, another stop-motion animation showing 5 separate steel components of girder separating and reconstituting.; 02:21:02:06 CU disembodied woman’s hand in white glove hold handle of car door, presses button on handle and opens door then shuts it.; 02:21:05:22 VS worker in GM plant lifts car door off conveyor belt, steel car door moving down conveyor line, workers attaching doors onto Fisher body of Chevrolet cars, pan down unpainted Fisher bodies of Chevrolet cars in GM plant, worker installs window.; 02:22:05:17 CU cute little girl with long curls wearing a hat gazes out through car window, girl wears big smile.; 02:22:29:05 CU disembodied worker’s hand holding metal tool sets the child-safety lock, CU disembodied white gloved hand tries to open door from inside, door won’t open, CU child-safety lock is lifted, disembodied man’s hand opens passenger seat door from inside.; 02:22:42:15 Great shot automated machine with rollers painting over inside roof of car, VS workers installing car insulation, CU family driving in car through snow-covered wooded landscape, worker smoking pipe rinses car with hose.; 02:23:45:08 man steps out of 1950 Chevrolet in parking lot of brick building with sign “Western Bar-B-Q” and another sign on side of building for “Cheeseburgers.”; 02:24:02:08 Great shot man in lab coat holding clipboard closely observes car door opened and closed by robotic arm, two men in white lab coats observe trunk as one of the men pulls on chain run through a pulley and attached to the trunk in order to pry the trunk open, CU front tire of DeLuxe Chevrolet with Chevrolet symbol on hubcap driving over bumpy road, researchers in lab coats observe Chevrolet car body mounted on shaking rig, research shines strobe light on shaking frame of car, patch on man’s lab coat shoes an antique car.; 02:24:58:15 Great VS 1950 passenger-less Chevrolet car towed into wood ramp, car flips onto grass on side of road, 8 men flip car back onto its tires, men inspect car, man enters car and drives away in damaged vehicle, man driving family in Chevrolet car.