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Machine Shop Work: Bench Work: No. 4 Reaming With Straight Hand Reamers

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Description As part of the war effort, the U. S. Office of Education released 48 films in 1941 and 1942 to train factory workers and shipbuilders under a project called Victory Training Films. The success of these titles helped convince the federal government and corporations that films could be used to effectively train employees. "This motion picture shows and explains the operations, methods, and procedures used in hand reaming with straight fluted reamer and hand reaming a gear blank with spiral fluted reamer are demonstrated in considerable detail." ("Bench Work," Business Screen: War Training Edition, number 4, 1942, 18.)
Creator Federal Security Agency
Ray-Bell Films, Inc.
Date Issued 1942
Original Format 16mm print
Duration 19:42
Color/Black & White B&W
Sound/Silent Sound
Nation of Origin U.S.

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