Synopsis
Dramatic demonstration of the properties and uses of Mylar.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1955-01-01
- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Internet Archive item
- WhatsItt1955_2
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · I'm wrapped in a Myalr coating · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-04-12
Jam Handy produced picture for DuPont's Mylar plastic film. What is fascinating about this particular film is how many of the applications listed in the film are still being used today. Mylar is a crystaline plasic film that has a high resistance to heat, moisture, and tearing. While Mylar is most familiar to us today as a material for metallic balloons, it is used still in audio tape, moisture bearers in housing, electrical insulators, industrial adhesive tape, and envelopes, all of which are covered in the film. Not mentioned in the film is the use of Mylar in survival blankets and haz-mat…
★★★★ · How Rude!! · Spuzz · 2005-09-11
The many many uses of Mylar is discussed by an unnamed narrator and his team of cute assistants dressed in puffy sleeves and berets (??). Mylar you say? Bo-ring! Well, gentle reader the film subject COULD have been boring, but thankfully, the producers of this film thought 2 steps ahead of us and made this film one big science experiment. Mylar is stretched (trampoline experiments!) hanged (acrobat experiments!) torched, cooled dpwn, cooked in acid, punched, scrunched, and yes, BOWLED, and the mylar is STILL STANDING! Wow, I¡¯m impressed! Narrator guy does everything here, speaks AND does the…
★ · Ooops! · woody666 · 2003-01-05
This movie does not match it's shotlist and transcript.
