ESS

About

Title refers to: Electronic Switching System.

Great footage of 1960s technological breakthroughs with silicon semiconductors; early microscopic manufacturing; great early Silicon Valley solid-state manufacturing technology breakthroughs, and early nanotechnology. Great footage high tech electronics assembly; silicon crystals, transistors, circuitry, early computer-industry related technology.

20:01:21:20 CU blinking orange-red light, camera pans down machine control panel, disembodied finger presses red switch. Great

20:01:32:14 VS BW stock footage of women and men in 1930s working in factory manufacturing telephone parts.

20:02:51:25 Pan down row of 1960s women looking into microscopes assembling telephone parts; CU pin of precision device used to produce tiny part; woman sticks arms into gloves extending into controlled vacuum chamber glass chamber, camera pans out to show various women working on similar tasks down row; women with drill in pieces on large board of electronics, camera pans over women with drills working on electronics switching system.

20:04:29:20 Pan down wall of ESS electronic telephone service electronics and electronic magnetized memory banks; animated diagram shows how ESS works superimposed over wall of magnetized memory card bank.

20:06:43:21 Zoom in on stored program control unit; memory unit Twistor module moves down conveyor line, male and female workers use microscopes and magnifying glasses to look at memory unit; CU machine producing special Twistor wire; VS long thing metal Twistor wires move along machine passing through mylar polyethylene belts, man inspects machine producing thin strands of wire; great shot through microscope of tine wires passing through machine; VS workers doing precision assembly and inspection with magnifying glasses and microscopes; CU disembodied fingers wind wire around metal pins.

20:10:32:21 Great shot machine dropping tiny metal reeds into racks progressed forward on conveyor line.

20:11:44:20 High-angle shot male and female workers inspecting large mechanical rings slowly click forward one unit at a time in circle.

20:11:59:24 CU quick pan from one pressure dial at 10 to another reading 15 the dropping to 0, to two more which drop to 0. CU automated machine doing precision assembly. CU disembodied hand inserts tin pins into numbered slots.

20:12:34:09 CU worker examines ferried switches under microscope.

20:13:04:16 Spinning molten furnace producing silicon crystals; camera zooms on man removing silicon crystal from machine; CU circular slices of silicon in tray carefully carried in gloved hands; man wearing 1960s style eyeglasses inserts tray of silicon slices into oven; man inserts boron and phosphorous on tray into silicon oven through glass tube; CU man treating silicon slice by inserting hands into gloves to work in controlled environment.

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