A truly one of a kind reel from my collection, this one I picked up in a second hand shop in Lancaster County back around 1993 and it is a training film made in 1966 just for a single production stage at the massive RCA Vacuum Tube Manufacturing Plant that was the major employer in Lancaster at that time. I determined the year based on the date code on the Kodak film stock, and this reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a 5 Blade Shutter that projects a 24fps print at 30 frames per second for a flickerless NTSC transfer. A special diffusion plate eliminates the 'hot spot' of the projector, and the sound is pulled right from the optical track. Enjoy!
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Fran, this was GREAT! I am from Pa & lived very close to Lancaster. I was only 6 at the time of this vid…WOW! What a labor intensive job to make vacuum tubes…thanks again for the "blast from my past"!
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I think I have a couple of 2e 24s in my collection
I’m amazed at the lack of PPE the women were required to wear
This is a really awesome series Fran…I love this kind of educational films from the yesteryear 🙂
A real gem Fran! Please show us more from your archive!
This is weird, you created one.of the best guitar pedals of all time and YouTube hates you..ugh…
Nice little bit of history from around here. I'll have to research this RCA thing.
Well wow. The speed of the woman at the solder station!
Tubes. Asbestos and lead. Women with perms, pearls, and cateye glasses.
Trippy.
This is so great. I’ve lived in Lancaster since ‘95. It has quite the history. Thanks
I wonder if the lady at the getter station knew they were going to be filming her and got dressed up for the occasion, or if that is the way she dressed regularly. I would have expected a little more work-a-day uniform.
Excellent film, Fran. Wonder if any of those tubes ended up in my ham radio 'boat anchors.'
Lead vapor into the fume hood and outside. But the neighbors would also be exposed to fumes.
Sometimes the good old days were just prior to the full impact of consequences.
What consequences are still waiting for us?
Astoundingly good quality film transfer, Fran. I'd love to see how you do it.
Land of lead and asbestos? I bet there's more asbestos than lead here; I'd rather it be the other way round. Been there, done that for a few years in a lead type foundry.
Great little movie, I wish you had more of them! And I absolutely love your commentary.
It's surprising how much of this line involves manual operations as late as 1966. No safety glasses, almost no fume and dust extraction – it really looks like a cottage industry, yet is was RCA.
Thanks for sharing ! Do we get to see the telecine sometime?
Wow. You can tell they all thought, "This job is boring and dangerous, but at least it has real security. It's not like this factory will ever be moved overseas and tubes will be replaced by transistors." Yikes…