Einreinhofer (Bill) China Archive, 1910-2024

428-npc-36438.mp4

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"PACIFIC FRONTIER MN-9606" 1) CU Japanese factory worker assembling small electronic parts. VG2) ECU Hands of factory worker assembling small parts onto composition board, woman at right is soldering. G3) ECU Faces of male and female workers sitting side by side assembling small electronic parts. VG4) ECU Down over hands of the male worker attaching small metal contacts to the small fiber-like board. G5) CU Down over parts in boxes, small conveyer belt moves by the workers down middle of table, woman at right assembles parts using small tool. (SV) VG6) ECU Female worker soldering small electronic parts on printed circuit in plant using soldering iron. VG7) CU Down over printed circuit and its component parts, soldering iron and solder come in scene soldering various contacts. VG8) CU Female worker working on electronic parts on what appears to be small radios, conveyer belt in center of the worktable. VG9) ECU Down over left shoulder of the female worker assembling small radio using a pair of tweezers, it is then set into body and sent to side. VG10) CU Down over radios partly constructed on conveyer belt moving to right. VG11) CU Female worker taking radios from assembly line polishing them with toothbrushes, placing them back onto conveyer belt, radios are assembled into boxes in far end of room, more radios are sent to table in FG by worker. VG12) ECU Female worker holding onto small radio brushing front surface area with toothbrush. G13) CU Row of small portable transistor radios moving along conveyer. 14) CU Workers assembling the boxes for radios, other women in BG wiping down radios, worker in right FG packing radios placing them onto assembly line at left. (SV) VG15) ECU Face of female worker working at assembly line, boxes move by the line in FG obscuring her face at time. (color, unedited, silent) (It says 1966, but slates on footage from the same series above say 1963.) See also 428-npc-36418, 428-npc-36378, 428-npc-36424, 428-npc-36440.

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