Short film
Power Lines
1944 · 16 min
A calm, methodical factory tour that turns raw copper into cable, pleasant as a quiet educational interlude.
- Directed by
- James E. Rogers
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Norman Shelley, Alvar Liddell
- Overview
- The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cables are then given high-voltage tests before being dispatched from the factory.
- How it feels
- Earnest and warm. Measured and fine in the background.
- About
- Work, technology, science
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- James E. Rogers
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Norman Shelley, Alvar Liddell
