[Research Work]

Creator: Handy (Jam) Organization (unverified)

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: General Motors Research Laboratories. Very nicely photographed.; title: "John B. Kennedy reports -- Back to the days when the biggest knocker in the country lived under the hood of your car.; Man drives 1930s Chevrolet off the surface of Earth, Earth recedes out of back window, car proceeds back in time by 1928 to 1922 (good); Engine knocking with motion-picture variable density soundtrack visible at left of frame to represent knocking visually; How Ethyl (lead) ended engine knocking; title: "Lowell Thomas reports -- This thing called temperature depends upon what you are, not where you are!; great timelapse shot showing ice melting in reverse and forming perfect cubes that dissolve into refrigerators; drops of mercury falling onto table; portly man holding Panama hat in left hand and fanning himself with fan in right hand; CU thermometer on brick wall with temperature dropping from over 80 to minus 10 degrees. Ice forms around mortar as temperature drops; Same portly man in heavy coat; Frame splits to show his right half dressed in heavy coat, his left half in shirtsleeves fanning himself; title: "John S, Young reports -- Science removes jitters from moving parts. Shakes, Shivers and Quivers Join extinct Dodo.; POV on concrete road through windshield, showing bumping up and down; Another POV smoothing smooth ride; title: "John B. Kennedy reports -- "Looking for trouble" -- before it looks for you, is another big job in this one industry.; Proving grounds and testing; title: "The most important part of every automobile is something no manufacturer can build! As told by Edwin C. Hill.; VS Great assembly footage; Animated driver without a car moving through countryside; Animated white-line automobile modernizes over time; Great montage of General Motors workers, plants, headquarters building in Detroit