This silent, color film footage — almost certainly shot for an industrial film — takes the viewer on a tour of a Honeywell manufacturing plant. It seems likely that this plant was in Phoenix, Arizona and that the footage likely dates to the late 1960s or the 1970s. It may show work at Honeywell Aerospace. The film depicts male and female engineers and employees at work across departments, assembling and testing electronic packages. The film lacks descriptors, so it is hard to ascertain what the employees are working on exactly, however, it is clear they are using automated machinery as well as working on projects with transistorized electrical circuit boards and control panels. This is likely because in the beginning of the 1970s, Honeywell began to focus on process controls, with the company merging their computer operations with GE’s information systems in 1970, and later acquiring GE’s process control business.

Honeywell Int’l Inc. is currently headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance materials and technologies (PMT), and safety and productivity solutions (SPS).

Honeywell company logo on facade of corporate building/ manufacturing plant; Other details of property (0:10-3:45). American flag waves atop flagpole (3:10). Female Honeywell employees wearing all white lab uniforms sit in a row hunched over microscopes; Male supervisor in blue protective outfit observes the women at work (3:55). Various close-up shots of one of the female employees as she does meticulous work using microscope, lab coat reads “Head Dept.” (4:37). Camera zooms into employee’s hands that appear to be using small pliers to sort copper plates (5:38). Another department of female employees sitting at individual works citations with bright lamps, use pliers to cut, organize wires (6:41). Close-up of one of the women using soldering tool, pliers to weld and model various electrical cables on electronic circuit (8:26). Male supervisor looks over the work of one of the other employees at another work station, pair appear to be working on a circuit board (10:35). Another team of engineers analyze/ examine inner circuit board of what could be a Honeywell keyboard (11:18). Two employees, one in lab coat and one with cigarette in hand, observe as automated “Millyer” branded machine cuts out exact geometric shapes (squares, circles) to scale on piece of plastic likely used as base for circuit board or another Honeywell manufactured product (12:47). Man in lab coat adjusts nobs, dials on control panel; CNC type machine precisely carves out shapes (13:23). The two men examine the finished product, man in button-up shirt uses fingers to test, examine various parts of the plastic board (15:41). C/u saw/ spinning tip used by CNC machine (16:52). Shot of machine’s switch panel with various control knobs, levers (18:09). Magnetic tape machine likely used for computer data storage; 1970s Honeywell produced computers i.e. Honeywell H-1640 Series (18:32). Two Honeywell business executives in suit look over charted data displayed on wall, probably a diagram for a transistorized black box. Engineer uses pencil to write in data points (21:32). Interior mechanical apparatus of Honeywell product, square shape with various colored wires running throughout; vibration test of this black box takes place (23:47). Engineer wearing Honeywell branded lab coat stands in front of panel with dials, knobs (26:04). Close-up of engineer’s hand as he adjusts acceleration level knob; Watches arrow move on what appears to be a volume unit meter (27:15). Male and female engineer in Honeywell branded lab coats sit side by side at work station and conduct quality control tests on transistorized circuit boards with resistors (28:16). Close-ups two different models of Honeywell printed circuit boards (29:30). Film ends (33:02).

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