Master Hands
Jam Handy Organization
Industrial and advertising
Clips are not offered for this film: the US renewal records do not settle it.
Parts
About
Industrial film detailing the manufacture of automobiles at Chevrolet’s Flint plant. Master Hands shows tool and die making, founding, casting, welding, part fabrication, and final assembly. The process concludes with the consumer behind the wheel of his new car. The film is set to a Wagnerian score performed by the Detroit Philharmonic Orchestra and includes only two lines of narration; in Master Hands the elemental work of industrial production speaks for itself.
Note: Part of Chevrolet’s Direct Mass Selling series and probably produced for screening at a stockholders meeting. An alternate version incorporates explanatory text. During World War II, the film was reedited to include footage of military vehicle production; it was later used for vocational training. Selected for the National Film Registry.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Ephemeral films
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Jam Handy Organization
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed