The Machine Maker.

Series: Human geography series

Duration: 1 reel

Year Published: 1939

Creator: Erpi Classroom Films, Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: "Portrays the setting and personnel of a machine tool factory. Demonstrates the operation and manufacture of lathes, millers, drills, drill presses, boring mills, grinders, and other machines. Reproduces 'worker conversations' on technical problems, and reveals the role of machinist apprentices. Provides close-ups of checking and assembly line operations." "Conversations in a machinist's home focus attention on the gains by boys in mass production. Scenes in an automobile factory show the flow of machine-tooled parts in the manufacture of cars by mass production." Georgia

Complete Record: THE MACHINE MAKER. Erpi Classroom Films, Inc., c1939. 1 reel, sd. Appl. author: Frank C. Hockema. © Erpi Classroom Films, Inc.; 21Nov39; MP9867.

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946


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