Summary

Dow Midland

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Title: Dow Midland
File Number: PA-0727 Digibeta
Color: Color
Type: Industrial
Year: 01/01/1951
Subjects: DOW CHEMICALS INDUSTRY FACTORIES WORKERS DAILY LIFE STATES MICHIGAN MIDLAND TOWNS CITIES PEOPLE TRANSPORTATION INTERIORS HOMES HOUSES LABOR
Description: Dow Midland 0:15 Dow Diamond symbol (corporate logo) Map of world with Dow Diamonds on it Map of US- Dow Diamonds appear 1 by 1 camera pans to CU of Michigan - Dow Diamonds & titles at DETROIT, BAY CITY, MIDLAND, MARQUETTE, SOUTH HAVEN, LUDINGTON Camera CU MIDLAND, BAY CITY Street sign : MIDLAND CITY LIMIT Camera pans out to cars driving down road Bus coming down street Car pulls in front of house on row of houses - residential street VS Midland bldgs - modern Large crowd of people leaving work MLS full parking lot - smokestacks in background Swarm of people walking off train platform VS crowds leaving work building VS MCU board of directors at table map of world behind them, man gets up and points to map 2:32 Cloudy, blue sky, brine well Drawing of 1 brine well - camera pans out to drawing of urban area Drawing - cutaway of Earth - strata CU layers with titles : SALT AND BRINE MCU Dow plant from across the river VS Dow plant, ie holding tanks CU tub of bromine crystals from brine (potassium bromine) VS CU man in glasses moving pans of bromine crystals 4:08 Woman primping her hair as she looks in mirror, framed photo of man on vanity - woman adjusts picture MCU Dow plant - smokestack CU of machine making strips of magnesium compounds CU strips - fills frame - man enters screen to inspect strip MCU man in glasses putting hand on revolving machine, getting white crystals 4:48 Machine automatically filling EPSOM SALT boxes Machine automatically loading EPSOM SALT bags (conveyer belt) MCU man washing off dirty filters with hose CU bag - DOWFLAKE Truck driving away full of DOWFLAKE - coating road MCU large holding tanks - truck and 2 men show how large they are MCU electrolytic cell building MCU red truck - men erecting ladder in truck, climbing ladder MCU man in glasses, white coat and hat shoveling caustic soda CU man closing barrel of caustic soda with identifying lid VS CU tanks of ammonia 6:24 MCU train on track in train yard CU man next to trucks of chlorine - tank cars CU part of Dow plant MCU tanks (holding) green - 2 men on top of them 7:05 Woman in dotted dress - dialing phone, talking - old radio is also on table MCU plant - color coordinated - all red, white and gray - even pickup truck driving through scene is red VS MLS Dow plant plant towers - beautiful colors 8:12 Man putting antifreeze in his car CU man breaking off chunks of indigo paste in factory 2 men working Kids on seesaws in park Man in white uniform and hat on catwalk working in factory 8:56 CU aspirin falling from automatic machine CU 3 bottles of pills - 1 blue, 1 pink, 1 white CU man in glasses next to yellow pill bottle filling machine MCU man using mortar and pestle - bottles of pills in front of him He pours powder into mortar from sheet of paper, grounds CU train pulling into trainyard - private Dow train and track 9:46 MCU red truck with yellow cab - backing into garage MLS factory - dark shot Camera moving down road enclosed by red Dow piping MCU corner of reservoir, holding tanks in background MCU sprinklers cleaning soil outside factory 10:39 3 employees walking outside of office bldg CU communications room - ticker tape (teletypes), 1 female employee Stills 11:33 CU printer spitting out ticker tape (teletype tape) Stills Printer typing out messages Still Printer typing again Stills 12:53 CU hands typing on typewriter, text in front of typist (teletype machine) - followed by still CU woman in evening dress - putting on perfume, prinping hair CU communications machine Camera pans large plant - DOW CU hand, eye dropper - vials and jars in background Checking flammability 13:49 Beautiful row of bubbling tall flasks of red liquid MCU 2 men conducting research with liquids VS CU man with notebook checking area of laboratory, he adjusts gauge CU blocks of magnesium CU machine inserting large tube size of brine into machine - cap is put on machine automatically MCU tubes of metal on conveyer belt VS CU of different shaped metal bars - rounded, hollow, etc Title : DOW - WEED KILLERS 15:25 VS CU man in greenhouse - gathering research material from plant CU bag and can of Dow Lime Sulfur and Arsenate of Lead VS bags and cans of weed killers Title : THE DOW CHEMICAL CO FIELD AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS RESEARCH MLS car parked in front of low, modern bldg - man walking up to bldg entrance 16:06 VS MCU man spraying trees - man on moving truck Man in research with 2 mixers - 1 mixing yellow liquid, 1 mixing pink liquid CU hand retrieving plastic squares from box - mixer next to him CU 2 researchers amid pipes CU man with plastic squares Titles and piles of crystals : ETHOCEL, STYRON, SARAN Title : SARAN CU part of factory - outdoors - bus VS researchers in laboratories CU hand cutting fine fibers of saran (yellow) CU all sorts of tresses of saran - different colors Title : STYRON 18:12 VS variety of plastic products in table - plates, cups, brushes, canisters CU main building of Plastic Dept, Midland - camera pans Styron plant MCU large, long pan of water - moving CU man pouring colorful crystals into glass containers MCU slabs of styron piled on mover Styron slab yard - people carrying them, piles MCU Dow Bldg, CU Dow Bldg 19:40 CU woman with paint roller, painting wall dark green MCU cranes VS MCU construction sites of Dow buildings Red yellow sunset in background - Dow plant with smoking stack Whole factory and sunset reflecting in water Lit factory at night Lit sign on top of building at end of twilight: THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY The end
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