Educational film explaining the basic principles of electricity.
Consists mostly of animated diagrams, with several brief montage
sequences showing electrical appliances. The film was sponsored by
General Electric and has a handsome look, with nice color. Even
the animated diagrams, showing atoms, have a lot of style
several shots would work as a quick-read image of power, energy. There’s
also a cartoon character of an electron, a big-headed blobby ghost. ” Color 1945
Educational film explaining the basic principles of electricity.
Consists mostly of animated diagrams, with several brief montage
sequences showing electrical appliances. The film was sponsored by
General Electric and has a handsome look, with nice color. Even
the animated diagrams, showing atoms, have a lot of style
several
shots would work as a quick-read image of power, energy. There’s
also a cartoon character of an electron, a big-headed blobby ghost.

00:00:00:00 Color 1945
vs Montage of housewife using electric appliances: stirring
food in pot on electric range
she opens refrigerator
woman at
ironing board with clothes iron
vacuuming a chair
waffle iron.

00:00:52:00 Color 1945
cu Woman’s hands kneading bread
knife slices loaf of bread.

00:06:54:00 Color 1945
vs Brief montage of electric appliances: hand dialing
telephone
man shaving with electric razor
also, power line tower.

00:08:08:00 Color 1945
cu Generic meter with needle
ampere meter.

00:12:00:00 Color 1945
vs Montage of electricity: Power lines, towers, transformers,
several shots
streetcar with cables
street lamp, electric fan,
generic
egg beater electric mixer (brief).

00:13:00:00 Color 1945
cu Magnets: hand holds bar magnet, it picks up a metal bar

magnet bends iron filings into pattern showing magnetic fields.

00:14:07:00 Color 1945
Generic magnet: man’s hand uses it to pick up an iron bar.

00:18:50:00 Color 1945
vs Montage of electricity: ECU wall outlet, hand inserts plug

toaster, generic (toast pops up, hands remove toast)
couple in
living room watch some kind of mod looking 1950s television”",,02/15/09 02:30 PM,”1940s