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Industrial film about casting follows the process of making castings from start to finish at SanCast Inc., melting down scrap into glowing liquid iron, pouring molds, and testing samples in the lab. The narrator highlights stringent testing procedures taken to meet standards. Most shots are quick cuts of still or handheld shots following action with CU of details from various angles. Factory workers are in most shots conducting the following activities in the SanCast Inc. foundry.
Credits
Odyssey Productions (production company); Jack Behrend (producer); Odyssey Productions (contributor); Jack Behrend (contributor); Chris Burrit (cinematographer)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1981
Cfa collection: Jack Behrend Collection
Sponsor: SanCast
Subjects: Industry; Factories
Places: North America > United States > Ohio > Coshocton
Language: English
Shot log: 00:11 - Var exterior SanCast, Inc. building; 00:21 - interior shots of foundry, workers and assembly lines pouring metals; interior worker with casting machinery, working in lab; 01:15 - workers with fully automatic core machine, CU details; testing consistency of sand, workers filling and checking casting mold; 02:11 - polishing specimen embedded in plastic for testing; worker weighing and moving scrap, magnet on crane moves scrap metal, after weighed, goes into charging bucket; 03:14 - charging bucket melts down scrap; transferring molten iron to molds in ladle; iron brought to temp, worker takes slag out of furnace, takes samples; 04:30 - spectrometer in lab, measures each alloy in sample; clean ladle, taps furnace, checks temperature, pours iron into mold and removes ladle; 06:02 - slow motion, CU pouring iron; cooling line, removed from molds; 07:06 - castings shot blasted and ground to customer's specifications; lab equipment for static and fatigue testing; sample etched in acid bath to make grain stand out; 08:06 - alarm going off, machine crushed the mold, workers run to check out problem; examining sample under microscope; 08:57-09:06 - exterior SanCast Inc. building
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 350 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3637; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3428
Cfa collection: Jack Behrend Collection
Sponsor: SanCast
Subjects: Industry; Factories
Places: North America > United States > Ohio > Coshocton
Language: English
Shot log: 00:11 - Var exterior SanCast, Inc. building; 00:21 - interior shots of foundry, workers and assembly lines pouring metals; interior worker with casting machinery, working in lab; 01:15 - workers with fully automatic core machine, CU details; testing consistency of sand, workers filling and checking casting mold; 02:11 - polishing specimen embedded in plastic for testing; worker weighing and moving scrap, magnet on crane moves scrap metal, after weighed, goes into charging bucket; 03:14 - charging bucket melts down scrap; transferring molten iron to molds in ladle; iron brought to temp, worker takes slag out of furnace, takes samples; 04:30 - spectrometer in lab, measures each alloy in sample; clean ladle, taps furnace, checks temperature, pours iron into mold and removes ladle; 06:02 - slow motion, CU pouring iron; cooling line, removed from molds; 07:06 - castings shot blasted and ground to customer's specifications; lab equipment for static and fatigue testing; sample etched in acid bath to make grain stand out; 08:06 - alarm going off, machine crushed the mold, workers run to check out problem; examining sample under microscope; 08:57-09:06 - exterior SanCast Inc. building
Cfa elements: Answer Print, 350 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3637; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/3428
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Sources
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Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:05