Lead Matrix Outtakes: can 02 (silent)

Description: Lead metal: its production and its applications. Includes ground-level scenes of New York City streets in 1965, including Times Square, the Pan Am Building, and commuter railroads (New Haven Railroad and New York Central Railway System, both now Metro-North Commuter Railroad). One sequence shows Constitution Plaza in Hartford, Connecticut, including the iconic boat-shaped Phoenix Life Insurance Company building and its surroundings. Further footage shows the production of neon signs, leaded stained glass windows; craft and hobby applications of lead products.

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Subjects: 1960s, Manufacturing, Electronics, Visual art, Crafts, Extractive industries

Tags: PanAm building; midtown; lead; New York; Grand Central Station; New York city streets; traffic; bicycles; taxicabs; crosswalks; pedestrians; city bus runbys; Blasting Area No Radio Transmission sign; traffic driving on cobblestoned street; construction site; backhoe loaders; compactors; dozers; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Broadway; intersections; neon; neon fabrication; hand-bending glass tubing for neon signs; manufacturing; stained glass; artistic applications; leaded glass panes; child brushing teeth; flashing CAMERAS sign; 43rd Street with Pan Am Bulding in distance; Hotel Lenox; railroad tunnel entrance; Marc Chagall; boy brushing tooth with electric toothbrush; passing circuit boards over automatic soldering line; New York Central Railroad; New Haven Railroad; Metro-North Commuter Railroad; trains in Park Avenue cut; lead shields; radiation safety; model cars; electric knives; meat carving; high angle fountain plaza; Constitution Plaza, Hartford, Connecticut; batteries; Modernist architecture; Phoenix Life Insurance Company building; passenger trains; slicing ham; fountains; sculptures; electric meters; EXIT sign (reversed)

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Creator: Cullen Productions

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

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

Production Date: 1965-07

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Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York City, New York; Connecticut; Hartford, Connecticut

Genre/Form: outtakes and trims, industrial

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Ektachrome Commercial

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1095