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

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com 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 power station (3:54-6:55). A hand shows how the magnet works. How electricity works is explained in detail. A generator is turned, the light goes on. Water from a water fall. Coal provides steam and smoke comes from a smoke stack. Aerial shot of a map that shows power lines across a city. A dam (6:56-9:27). Banks of Columbia River. Men at work. Construction site where men make a factory to help make electric power. A map of the sprawling Northwest shows Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Minerals (i.e. zinc, copper, iron) are discussed, and with a light dot, shown where they are in that region. Water moving. Power is turned on. Men at work leave a factory. Planes being constructed. Men work in a factory. Motors and pistons turn and spin. Train. A crane carries steel (9:28-12:15). Liquid is poured to be molded. A propellor on a plane spins and then the plane takes off. Clouds and mountains. A tall electric power structure. A man skis and checks the depth of the snow on the mountain. A man keeps records of humidity and rainfall. A weather balloon is launched into the sky. A hand marks up a map of the USA. A man puts paper into a typewriter and types: weather forecast Mississippi Valley area. Nerve center at the power company, men watch a giant screen. A dispatcher receives a phone call. Dark storm clouds, rain falls. The dispatcher makes a call to another section. Buttons pressed in the generator room. The dispatcher makes a call to another station (12:16-16:01). Knobs, gauges, and buttons on the board at the station. Other stations are contacted. A man pulls at a wall, pulling a tube out. Close on fingers pressing. A man on a phone. A man checks gauges. A car pulls up and a man exits to look at a power line, he gets back in and drives away. Rain comes down hard. A man closes a convertible roof. Rain wets clothes left outside hanging on a clothesline. Cars drive through deep puddles, people use umbrellas. Lightning, thunder and heavy rain. Men turn gauges and study their boards. Lights are tuned on from inside a dry house. Lights are going on in homes all around town. More kilowatts. A man checks the generator load. His hand on a button (16:02-20:00). Megawatts gauge. A knob is turned. Rain pours. Lights go on in the town. A doctor looks over a sick boy. Traffic signals still work in the rain. A woman in a kitchen, a man in a barn. Elevator descends. A woman bottles Penicillin. Flames in a factory machine. A sick child in the iron lung machine. Men press buttons in the power company and stare at gauges on the wall. The sun shines from behind a cloud. The storm has ended. The sun returns and lights shut off. A man uses a broom to remove water from his overhang. Children play in a puddle. A cat shakes water off itself. A light is turned off. A power company. Electric wires. Generator. Men check machines in the power company. The machine has a Westinghouse logo on it. Aerial shot of a map as lights go on as night falls (20:01-23:48). End credits (23:49-24:00). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com