Threads of Technology

Threads of Technology

Rejissyor: Murphy (Owen) Productions. 09:12:30:04 CU parabolic lines morphing in and out of each other on an oscilloscope screen, lines begin to accelerate and morph into a sine-wave-like pattern; dissolves to CU laser passing through a prism. 09:12:55:13 CU automated machine wiring yellow wire through what looks like a pin board. 09:12:59:04 Camera pans around older woman in 1970s fashion working on electronics device in assembly warehouse. 09:13:05:02 Great shot CU newly assembled stove being pushed through warehouse. 09:13:07:21 Aerial of a submarine 09:13:10:00 CU disembodied hands type on keyboard of Raytheon computer, computer with black screen and producing green text on dotted green lines. 09:13:12:08 CU cathode tube radar screen, disembodied hands move various paper markers over surface of screen 09:13:16:26 CU woman looking into a microscope 09:13:18:11 CU microscopic view of precision instrument possibly soldering a computer chip. 09:13:21:14 CU man pushing touchpad buttons on screen, number sequence 7-5-4-5 produced on screen of instrument. 09:13:24:24 CU low-angle looking up through a glass tray of water at a man wearing a suit as he places pairs of rectangular ice cubes in water tray, water ripples distorting image of man’s face. 09:13:25:28 CU instrument printer/recorder producing complicated pattern of dots and dashes of different lengths, printers moves on vertical axis, shots pans over to Raytheon symbol on printer. 09:13:29:19 Camera passes between two rows of complex Raytheon electronic instruments, two long rows look like super computers, Raytheon logo superimposed over shot, dissolves into oscilloscope producing rapidly moving sine wave pattern, “Threads of Technology” title credit superimposed over shot. 09:13:52:06 CU Persian Gulf on an ancient Greek map zoom out to image of entire map, CU various Greek gods along perimeter of map representing the four elements; gods include Zeus, Poseidon, Gaea and a fourth. 09:14:31:29 Low-angle shot what look like ducks flying in V-formation.

https://archive.org/details/0559_Threads_of_Technology · Public domain (Internet Archive)