1959INDUSTRY/MANUFACTURING
An explanation with demonstrations and animated examples of exactly how a storage battery works. circa 1959. Man in laboratory performs experiments and explains electrical currents and chemical reactions. Inside a battery factory with demonstration of how a battery is mass produced.
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Reel begins. The Story of the Modern Storge Battery - 1959, B&W
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The word, "Willard" inside the engine of a vehicle, written across the battery.
CU Hands inside the engine securing the car battery, tightening screws and attaching the wires. |
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Inside a car engine, the battery, fan belts spinning. Circa 1950's
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CUs car headlights (turn on), the radio (vintage)
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fade out. a huge storage battery. A '50's guy wearing glasses and a bow tie looks at battery and takes notes.
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An atomic submarine surfacing in the ocean
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A man placing a small storage battery into a machine.
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A giant guided missile taking off from launch pad.
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a fishing boat with mariners out on the sea
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Doctors wearing face masks in operating room
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Sign on door "Battery Room - No Smoking"
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A large closet containing several storage batteries.
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Var. shots of different types of batteries, large and small for many different jobs.
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A man dressed in suit in a lab explains how the storage battery works. A storage battery sits on a table as he speaks into the camera. He holds up a copper penny and silver quarter and cuts a grapefruit in half.
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CU half a grapefruit and hands holding a quarter and a penny and placing them inside the grapefruit.
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CU hands hold source of electricity, current, and attach to the coins.
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pan left to CU electric current meter. "Microamperes"
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CU hands hold half a grapefruity next to a storage battery in the lab.
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A flask with liquid attached to a meter. Same man in lab performs experiment with sulfuric acid which he explains produces electricity. CU on the beaker with sulfuric acid and wire.
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CU electric meter shows strength of battery. Man explains how two unlike metals immersed in acid solution will produce a measurable electrical current.
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Man in lab refers to a history book about the discovery of electrical current more than 150 years ago.
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B&W photo still of the Italian nobleman, Alessandro Volta. The 'father of modern electrical science'.
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hand stacks up small plates made of zinc and silver. primitive battery with limitations. man in lab explains and experiments, and hooks to voltage meter.
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Storage battery circa 1950's
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B&W photo still from history book, the French scientist, Gaston Plante' who invented the lead battery in 1859. Photo of the first lead (plate) battery.
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Man in lab demonstrates how lead plates emerged in electrolyte liquid solution make up a secondary storage battery. CU strip of lead. Electric meter. Man charges up metal plates.
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Man explains and demonstrates how chemical changes are made. Plates emerged in beaker, CU color of plates changed due to chemical reaction, positive and negative plates.
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CU beaker with liquid consisting of electrolyte dilute sulphuric acid.
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Animated diagrams of how this all works, the process - current flows and light bulb lights up. with unseen narration.
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Man places the chemical names and common names of the chemicals on a chalk board.
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Further animations. chemical reactions. science lesson, chemistry.
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CU storage battery
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B&W photos from a history book, pages flip open - Charles F. Brush, T.A. Willard
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Hand holds a compact version of the modern storage battery, circa 1959. Side by side to a large storage battery. Man explains they are almost identical in construction and operation.
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man in lab experiments with 6 volt fog lights. connects with different volt batteries.
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Man in lab continues various chemistry experiments demonstrating how voltage and electrical current work.
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Tilt down to scientists and engineers working in a large laboratory to make batteries smaller and more powerful.
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CU a small 'moder' battery.
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CUs in a lab, a small battery dipped into a beaker of liquid, dozens of bubbling chemicals in beakers, var. battery testing machines, scientists performing tests
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CUs inside a factory for the modern mass production of batteries, the grid, firey molding machines making battery grids, grids coming out of machinery in pairs, workers in battery factory, large blocks of active materials, lead oxide in a large barrel, mixing machines making lead paste out of the lead oxide.
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Assembly line of grids or plates. Workers nake the electric grids into dry and wet charge batteries. Batteries on a circular assembly line, cell connectors, and plate connectors.
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factory worker inspects samples of the batteries and parts in a laboratory. CUs of inspection process, beakers filled with fluid
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Worker at the battery element making machines. Plates are separated on an assembly line, Workers prevent them from touching,
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Worker wearing goggles welds battery elements.
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Battery elements on the production line are placed manually into the automotive battery's metal case.. worker tests the assembly and welding are correct.
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Liquid is poured into car batteries at the factory.
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Hands pour black liquid, electrolyte, into a battery using a funnel to charge it. The battery is tested on a shaking machine for spot testing and placed in a feezer. Worker looks at thermometer on wall of freezer.
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Attractive woman wearing a beret gets into her car, two cute children. in back seat. Car won't start, she looks stressed. Woman talks to husband "honey" from (vintage) wall phone.
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Car at shop with hood up. Husband talks to repairman who informs him the battery is ruined and won't hold a charge. CU (repairman's) hand points to various parts inside the engine. He points to worn wiring, the generator, and other parts of the engine that can cause the battery to wear out.
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CU Service station repairman, circa 1950's style, wears a hat and uniform with a bow tie.
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CU an old corroded looking car battery
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Repairman at the shop and owner of car look into hood of car. Repairmen adds water to battery. Holds up ruined battery plate. compares good plates with bad ones. Disintegrated plates due to overcharging battery.
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Repairman shows car owner new batteries on a rack. He places new battery in car, they discuss what to do with the old battery.
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Pile of old batteries in a junkyard.
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New battery is put into car. Man gets in car and it starts right up. He backs out of service shop.
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CU new car battery
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End of story. locomotive, hand set telephone on desk with lighted buttons, rocket taking off. Man standing in laboratory reminds viewers that the story about the storage battery began more than 150 years ago.
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Adventures in Living graphic, The End. Sterline Movies U.S.A. graphic.
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End reel.
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