Summary

Footage Information

NFB Archives
From the Ground Up
[Title: From the Ground Up]: MS of various cars (Buiks, Chevrolets, Fords), including motorcycle with side-car heading towards and past camera. AERIAL SHOTs of automotive factories. Sequence showing molten steel being poured from giant crucible, white hot ingots going through various machines. PAN of factory facilities. Interior shots of men pouring molten steel into molds, of men operating machinery for forming hot metal, CUs of pieces of metal being worked on. Shots of maps showing various automotive centers and allied industries in Canada. Shots at foundry, including view of river of molten steel flowing into heat resistant canal. Sequence on men operating machinery forming automobile parts, including CUs and CSs parts being fabricated. Sequence on workers manufacturing springs that will go into automobile seats.
National Film Board
08:11
01/01/1944
TRANSPORTATION
Canada
35mm dupe neg b&w
Digital Video Disk; Reel 35 mm; Digital Bétacam
4/3
720 x 486 (SD)
11026
View details on NFB Archives site
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