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This Is Automation (1955)

1955 · Ephemeral film · 27 min

Synopsis

Footage on industrial automation: workers entering a factory, cookies moving along a mass-production line, and three executives examining a large model of a plant.

Synopsis, reviewed

Details

Running time
27 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Licensing Rights · wgspeno · 2020-02-18

Hello, I am interested in licensing the rights to this film for a music video. Would you please respond back with more information of licensing the rights to the film and also cost information. Thank you.

★★★ · This is too long. lol · Spuzz · 2018-03-19

Though too long, this film is an excellent overview about why YOU, and yes, I'm talking to you, should take your company into automation. Step by step is explained in detail.. It's somewhat boring, but at least they have great shots of things being made. From cookies to lightbulbs. No complaints about that here at all.

★★★ · Slick, Nice Try · Dodsworth the Cat · 2024-04-22

Despite fine editing, switches from live action to animation, solid narration by Les Tremayne and some nice background neutrals from the Langlois Filmusic library, this short is dry, dry, dry. "...such as turning and facing cuts on irregularly-shaped jet engine parts. The machine is a vertical turret lathe equipped two dimension tracer control." That kind of dialogue isn't going to hold much of an audience, especially in a 27-minute film.