COLLECTION NAME:
Ira Current Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Ira Current
Title:
Tinkerer's dream
Name:
Current, Ira B.
Name and Role:
Current, Ira B.;Photographer
Resource Type:
Moving Image
Genre:
Amateur films
Genre:
silent films
Place Created:
[New York]
Date Created:
1950
Date Captured:
2020-02-24
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 film reel (8min., 54sec.)
Form:
black-and-white film (film, material)
Internet Media Type:
video/mp4
Form:
16mm (photographic film size)
Abstract:
A Gateway Picture. Photographer, Ira Current. Close-up images of metal working tools at work, bookended by a man in a small home workshop flipping through a Center Tool Company catalog.
Note Type:
Segment sequence
Note:
00:00:00 Opening credits. 00:00:39 A man, possibly Ira Current, works at his workbench using a filing tool. He sits down to read a “Center Tool Co. Machine Shop Equipment Catalogue” The scene changes to show a close-up of machine parts spinning and working. 00:04:39 The man continues to work at his workbench. There are metal shavings piled on the machine and table. 00:08:14 Scene changes back to the man sitting and reading through the same catalogue. He goes back to filing like he was at the beginning of the film. 00:08:43 “The End” appears on the screen. 00:08:54 End of recording.
Subject Topic:
Workshops
Subject Topic:
Tools
Subject Topic:
Metal-working machinery
Subject Temporal:
Twentieth century
Identifier:
U183050992273_narv_currentIra_tinkerersDream_a.mp4
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU:491
Access Condition:
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