movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Master Hands (Part IV)
- Year
- 1936
- Abstract
- Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant" films.
- Notes
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Produced: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: Chevrolet Motor Company
Run Time: 10:12
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Automobiles: Manufacturing;Labor: 1930s;Occupations: Automotive;Labor: 1930s;Occupations: Automotive
- Theme
- Off the production line we go!
- Review
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Excellent montage documentary which essentially builds an automobile from scratch. We watch, as the Detroit Philharmonic plays (excellent music I might add) as it starts from the foundry, pounding out metal for the cars, to screwing on nuts, to fitting everything in place. It's also an awesome showcase of the production line, and how mind-numbing it all must have been. While I was watching this, I felt SOMEWHAT gypped that I didn't see ALL the production happen, like the main cabin of the car floats out of nowhere onto the chassis. Like, where was the production of that? That's a minor point though. See this. It's Important. A Must See on this site!
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F