Use and Useless
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Use and Useless. DESCRIPTION: Two hundred years after it was built, a water-powered Forge is restored to working condition. Meanwhile, also in Switzerland, someone else is busy making machines that do absolutely nothing. His exhibition of useless mechanics seems to be a protest against the power of the machine in our society. SHOTLIST: GV water powered forge in Switzerland. GV pan water channel. MS water driving mill wheel. CU cogs turning. MS man carries white hot metal to forge and water operated hammer starts working. MCU hammer working. MCU pan cogs turning. MS pan mill wheel turning. MS ditto. MCU cogs turning. MCU hammer operating. GV pan machines created by Herr Tinguely of Zurich working. MCU ditto. MS Herr Tinguely presses pedal to start machine. Pan up machine working. MS another machine working. MS ditto. MS ditto. MS ditto. MS ditto. CU machine moving to and fro on wheels. MS ditto.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Demonstrations
- Locations
- Switzerland
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 91716
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 161
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