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Title: KNOW YOUR MACHINE TOOLS

Reference number: 6821

Date: 1947*

Director: d. Adam H. Malcolm

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.44 mins

Description: A teacher training film made by the Technical Department, Moray House, Edinburgh. It takes the viewer through various health and safety issues when using machine tools in metalwork.

Credits: Cragfoot Films present
A Moray House Technical Department Film
technical superviser Alex M. Nimmo
camera Lionel Butler
p. and d. Adam H. Malcolm

Shotlist: title and opening credits (0.30) the metalwork classroom is opened up and a group of men learn about the 'Don'ts for machinists' (these are written out on blackboard behind teacher) (2.26) the men start to operate lathes and other machinery (2.27) c/u 'filing' action by machine on piece of metal (2.40) a man gets his sleeve caught in machine and performs emergency stop on machine, c/u 'Safety First' message board (3.07) Don't forget to oil your bearings gvs men doing same (4.07) machine is set up to cut through cylinder of solid metal, this taken half an hour (4.53) the piece of metal is shaved and smoothed doen by machine Don't forget chips of metal may destroy the sight! Use goggles gvs man getting chip in eye and then putting on his goggles (5.44) Don't forget to use the hand vice when drilling sheet metal gvs as man drills without vice and the piece of metal spins out of control, then gvs in the proper manner using vice (6.31) The End (6.44)