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X-Ray Inspection of Parts Radiography (1940)

1940 · Short film · 20 min

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Engineering X-Ray Inspection” is a circa 1940 United States Office of Education training film was produced by U.S. Office of Education and the Federal Security Agency. The film opens with a disconcerting hum and the camera peers at a massive x-ray machine (mark 00:30 ) in the “radiographic room” of an industrial x-ray inspection laboratory. At mark 01:45 we see a casting that is full of defects as the narrator points to the differences and explains how potentially serious trouble was avoided as…

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20 minutes