WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC " SUMMER STORM " ELECTRICAL GRID & POWER DISTRIBUTION FILM 67874a (1939)

Synopsis

This black & white educational film is about how electricity is distributed from power stations in a modern community. This film is from 1939 and was presented by Westinghouse. Opening titles: "SUMMER STORM" (:09-:41). A shirtless boy walks down a city street during a hot summer day in August. A dog and a man are asleep outside as are some people in the park. Children get ice cream from the ice cream truck. Other girls run through a sprinkler in a yard. A man fishes. His fishing line is yanked under the water. Clouds start to move in on the sun. Heavy rain falls onto the dirt. Tree sways in the breeze. People walk down city streets. Some people dunk their heads into a fountain to cool off. A man does chores outside in the heat. A woman puts a pie in the oven. A man works in a factory. City Hall, an elevator. Children cross a street. A boy lays sick in bed as a doctor looks at him. A worker moves Penicillin. Hospital, a woman is placed into an iron lung (:42-3:53). Dark clouds in the sky. A woman walks around a farm. Wind picks up in intensity. Power lines. Wires from the power lines go to each house. A man punches numbers in a machine. A doctor checks on a sick boy in a home. A man sprays outside. A traffic signal. Elevator in a building. Penicillin being made, close on the Penicillin cultures. Two women in a kitchen. A man in a factory, flames heat up. An iron lung machine. Aerial shot of power lines from a dam all the way to a neighborhood. Transformers and insulators at a…

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Running time

24 minutes

Collection

Ephemeral Films

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• 1939
• Summer Storm
• Electrical Grid
• Power Distribution
• Stock Footage