Moving Picture Age (1920) . t, from Washington, near At-lanta, Ga., are the immense granite quarries of Stone quarry looks like a huge hill of rough stone with a railwayrunning through it, with not a tree or a blade of grass to be seenfor miles around. Powerful machinery extracts the huge blocksof granite from the hills, and derricks seize and transfer them toflat cars on the railway in the quarry. What happens to the roughblocks after they are sent to the polishers is fully shown in thisFord picture. Two companion educational pictures of exceptional interestshow the manufacture
Moving Picture Age (1920) . t, from Washington, near At-lanta, Ga., are the immense granite quarries of Stone quarry looks like a huge hill of rough stone with a railwayrunning through it, with not a tree or a blade of grass to be seenfor miles around. Powerful machinery extracts the huge blocksof granite from the hills, and derricks seize and transfer them toflat cars on the railway in the quarry. What happens to the roughblocks after they are sent to the polishers is fully shown in thisFord picture. Two companion educational pictures of exceptional interestshow the manufacture of paper and the making of a the former, the grinding of huge logs into pulp, the mixing ofthe pulp with various chemicals, and the different compressing andpurifying processes give one an idea of the importance and im-mensity of the paper making industry. Following this is the storyof the newspaper from the collection of the news to its final ap-pearance on the street. The work of the daily reporter, his reli-. Nct Profits. A picture from onethe catching of salmon in the ance on the telephone for the speedy communication of his newsto the ofiice where it is written up by special writers, may tendto remove some of the romance usually associated with the life ofthe reporter in the mind of the average person. But the making of the newspaper is only begun when the re-porters news has been conveyed to the office. In typewritten form,it goes to the linotype, whose part in the making of the newspaperis carefully picturized in this unusual Ford film. The next steps,involving the making of the matrix, and the molding of the cylin-drical steel plates which fit on the rollers of the presses, are thenshown. Finally, the huge presses in motion, turning out thousandsof newspapers an hour, folding and counting them, bring this tour,of one of the largest newspapers in the United States to the pointwhere the papers are ready for shipment. Outside the huge build-ing stand dozens of
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