Dating to around 1965, this longform promo film advertises the Kaiser Aluminum Corporation’s Mirawal panel products. It begins by going over the different types, including aluminum, stainless steel, enamel, textured, with rock, and even used as chalkboards. It then covers the production process of two different types of panels, one based on porcelain enamel and the other is rock based. Finally, it looks at different applications of the panels and at what locations they have been used. This includes in industry, restaurants, schools, and civic centers. One of the more famous example is the Terminal Market at Hunt’s Point in the Bronx. Some Mirawal products may have contained asbestos, Miraspan and Fire Wall wall panels were used for fireproofing in some instances.
0:10 different buildings, 0:35 a selection of different panels followed by the title “Panels Unlimited”, 1:00 a panel being produced, 1:09 animation of an older building being transformed with panels, 1:43 panels being locked together, 1:52 a before and after of a warehouse being covered in panels, 2:40 different buildings with rock panels, 3:14 close up of tile panels, 3:26 aluminum and stainless steels panels, 3:38 a textured steel wall panel, 3:55 chalkboards made of panels being demonstrated, 4:23 the different “ingredients” needed to produce panels, 4:49 a man combining different ingredients in the lab to ensure quality control, 5:08 Industrial mills combining ingredients, 5:20 steel being rolled, 5:30 porcelain enameling process, 5:50 animated diagram showing the various steps involved in making panels interjected with real footage from the process including varnishing, coloring, several furnaces, and drying, 8:25 the finished product coiled up, 8:45 panels being laminated by running through several machines, 9:35 men join two pieces together and then feed it into a roller, 10:00 production process of the rock panels, 10:05 cement and asbestos being poured onto a panel, 10:30 rock mixture being slowly mixed onto panel, 11:20 footage of the Brickell Townhouse in Miami, completed in 1963 11:44 Caribbean towers in Miami, 11:57 Insurance Building in Southern California, 12:05 different schools with panels, 12:36 Marin County Civic Center in California, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed 1962 12:49 different panel buildings for the General Tire and Rubber Company in Detroit, 13:12 a restaurant with internal paneling, 13:39 Aerial overview of the Terminal Market at Hunt’s point in the Bronx, 14:23 different buildings with panels, 14:45 Title “Panels Unlimited”, 14:51 “Mirawal Products operating division of Kaiser Aluminum”.
Founded in 1946, Henry J. Kaiser’s corporation entered the aluminum business by leasing, then purchasing three government-owned aluminum facilities in Washington state.
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