Shell Oil Film "Red Ruin" Prevention of Rust and Corrosion 47684 (1950)

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This 1950 color U.K. documentary “Red Ruin” about rust-preventing fluid is sponsored by Shell, a Film Producers Guild Production, directed by Nigel Byass, and photographed in Kodachrome. ts Britain’s weather is stormy to clear (:35-1:12). A tractor drives down the middle of a town road (1:13-1:25). A tractor with a binder harvests wheat (2:01-2:24). A Caterpillar D2 tractor pulls a plow. Other mechanized attachments work the field (2:25-2:57). Farm equipment is backed into a barn. Rusty metal farm equipment is outside in a field (3:00-3:26). Rusted farm equipment lies abandoned in the grass. Parts to a manure spreader are shown (4:16-4:50). A farmer examines a metal part on top of a gasoline barrel (5:00). He drives an Austin to town (5:15). The broken piece is tossed onto a pile of rusty metal (5:45). Iron ore is dug and dumped into train car beds (5:55-6:50). A farmer rolls a tin milk jug (6:51). A hand using a blade scrapes rust off lead window pane beading (6:56-7:15). To test rust environments, an iron mower blade is dropped into jars containing just air, distilled water, water, salt water, and water followed by sprinkling with fertilizer. All five are photographed once a minute over 24 hours and shown using time-lapse photography (7:16-8:52). Each is lifted out and examined for rust. Worst is the fertilizer, which influences farm equipment blades (8:53-9:44) Second is rust. A man smears tallow on a battle axe, waterproof paint is applied, and mineral jelly is applied…

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20 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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